by The Covent Garden Soup Company
Macmillan, 1999
I thought perhaps I had exhausted the usefulness of this book. I have a handful of fabulous recipes from it, chief among them being fennel and smoked fish chowder which is a real winner. However, the need for new and different soups continues to plague me. We really need to have soup at least once a week. It's easy to prepare in advance. easy to heat up at short notice and easily digestible. That makes it perfect for Tuesdays, when Marianne, Livia and I rush in from the French club I teach and they attend, then 45 minutes later rush out again for two hours of swimming/gymnastics/trampolining (at least two of the above per child). So, new and different soup is a boon. And of course there's the perennial vegetable problem. How can you ensure each child eats five portions of fruit and vegetables a day and ideally had at least some variety in these five? So, I did wonder if this soup might be pushing it a little, but tomato and apricot are both acceptable, and I thought perhaps the aubergine might meld in with the flavours so that they wouldn't notice too much...
Of course I avoided the question 'what type of soup is it?' by hiding the book and telling them is was a 'tomatoey' soup. And the result? Before they found out what was in it, both Marianne and Livia said it was pretty good. Better than lentil, not as good as leek and potato or minestrone or (for Marianne) the spicy chorizo and potato one I did once that no other child would eat. There was a certain amount of shock-horror when I told them what was in it, but they thought on the whole they'd be happy to have it again. Whoopee! The repertoire widens.
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