Post #26

It got so cold the last few days we had to dig out our warm winter blanket! and whats better than having a big bowl of hot hearty soup in this cold and wet weather?! (err... maybe except for hotpot... I LOVE HOTPOT!!!).

so tonight we stopped by super to grab some bacon and vegies, ready to cook a big pot of vegie soup with risoni :)


-Bacon and veg soup with risoni-

close up:




look all these healthy vegie goodness - tomato, onion, zucchini, carrot, beetroot stems + leaves, corn and cannellinni beans! i recently found that the best way to use beetroot stems and leaves is to cook soup! the stems are v sweet, it's a waste to chuck them! i also read somewhere that you could cook the stems and leaves just like spinach with olive oil and salt. i gave that a try before but it took forever to cook and the stems and leaves were still v tough.

the core of a corn is also v sweet, so after chopping out the kernels, i chucked the cores into the pot as well and scooped them out when the soup is cooked!! :)