I am lacking the energy for normal posts and the last quiz question (it will come soon, I promise), but I do feel that I must relate the last couple of soups that has been on the menu.
#36 was an ok dish, but it was more of a starter than a complete meal. Cucumber, mint and green peas. Basically it is what it sounds like, soup based on cucumber, green peas and mint. It also contained a couple of tatoes, butter, chicken broth and a good splash of rich cream. A comment we wrote was that it would have been better to use less water and more cream than the recipe prescribed.
#37 I did on my own when K had left me to see an Opera in the city of our dreams. Cheese soup with bacon and potatoes. It sounds quite good and I really had great hopes for it, but it did not live up the expectations. Bacon (too little), onion, broth and potatoes were cooked in a pot and then thickened by some flour. Then some Emmenthaler, sherry and Worcestershire sauce were added. Maybe it would have been better if I had served it in a hot bowl as it said in the book.
#38 This one we did last night, and I just had the rest for lunch. Prawn and lemon-grass soup. As you might think it is an asian soup, and as such it is a bit hard to make since I am not so sure on how it should taste and how the ingredients should be treated. A good thing was the raw prawns, they turned out great since they were only cooked once (they did not become chewy at all), the bad things were the amount of lime, three of them might have been two to many, and then the lemon-grass. Now I do not know if it is supposed to be like that but since they are so 'woody' they are not all that pleasant to get in your mouth and since you should cut them in 2.5 cm long pieces according to the book, they are not that easy to pick out of the soup either.. A strange thing was the straw mushrooms. A canned mushroom that were, hmm, strange you might say. And then we have the coriander, but that is a story of its own.
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