Harriet is definitely NOT WELL, and is sleeping peacefully in her bedroom, and the double trap shooting is too tense for words, so I've popped into the kitchen to do some cooking. I picked up some lovely (cut price) peas in their pods from Waitrose earlier, and I'm trying out Felicity Cloake's Perfect Pea Soup.
For a start, I don't have streaky bacon, just back bacon, so I'm using that. I also have a mixture of chicken stock and garlic olive oil that I used to cook little gem lettuces (a novel idea, but it works, look in this book), and Ms Cloake recommends plain water or vegetable stock. Even perfection can be improved on, however, so in they go and now the soup is boiling away behind me, ignored like my children's whines. It smells wonderful, and is a delicious green colour. Unfortunately, the cheap peas were cheap for a reason; they are really quite large and there weren't that many of them, so I have had to add a large quantity of frozen petit pois to the soup, and of course they have cooked very quickly and are now done and ready to be blended.
Live blogging cooking soup is the most exciting thing I'm doing today.
For a start, I don't have streaky bacon, just back bacon, so I'm using that. I also have a mixture of chicken stock and garlic olive oil that I used to cook little gem lettuces (a novel idea, but it works, look in this book), and Ms Cloake recommends plain water or vegetable stock. Even perfection can be improved on, however, so in they go and now the soup is boiling away behind me, ignored like my children's whines. It smells wonderful, and is a delicious green colour. Unfortunately, the cheap peas were cheap for a reason; they are really quite large and there weren't that many of them, so I have had to add a large quantity of frozen petit pois to the soup, and of course they have cooked very quickly and are now done and ready to be blended.
Live blogging cooking soup is the most exciting thing I'm doing today.
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