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fiddlechic · 30-01-2015 03:15PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Speaking of which, I grabbed a couple of butternut squash in Lidl. Anyone got a good recipe for soup?

I just sweated 2 onions, a few cloves of garlic and then added 2 butternut squash (peeled, minus seeds and roughly chopped), 4 peeled parsnips and 6 unpeeled carrots with a stock cube and enough water to cover them. Simmered for about 35 minutes. Added black pepper and blitzed with handblender until smooth.
Delicious.

I used to always peel carrots for soup, but not peeling them makes no difference to taste and all the difference to preparation time.

eisenberg1 · 30-01-2015 03:32PM

fiddlechic wrote: »

I just sweated 2 onions, a few cloves of garlic and then added 2 butternut squash (peeled, minus seeds and roughly chopped), 4 peeled parsnips and 6 unpeeled carrots with a stock cube and enough water to cover them. Simmered for about 35 minutes. Added black pepper and blitzed with handblender until smooth.
Delicious.

I used to always peel carrots for soup, but not peeling them makes no difference to taste and all the difference to preparation time.

Sounds good to me, cheers.

kylith · 30-01-2015 03:58PM

fiddlechic wrote: »

I just sweated 2 onions, a few cloves of garlic and then added 2 butternut squash (peeled, minus seeds and roughly chopped), 4 peeled parsnips and 6 unpeeled carrots with a stock cube and enough water to cover them. Simmered for about 35 minutes. Added black pepper and blitzed with handblender until smooth.
Delicious.

I used to always peel carrots for soup, but not peeling them makes no difference to taste and all the difference to preparation time.

I never peel carrots or potatoes unless I absolutely have to. The peel is were the good stuff is.

AntrimGlens · 30-01-2015 04:13PM

fiddlechic wrote: »

I just sweated 2 onions, a few cloves of garlic and then added 2 butternut squash (peeled, minus seeds and roughly chopped), 4 peeled parsnips and 6 unpeeled carrots with a stock cube and enough water to cover them. Simmered for about 35 minutes. Added black pepper and blitzed with handblender until smooth.
Delicious.

I used to always peel carrots for soup, but not peeling them makes no difference to taste and all the difference to preparation time.

For xmas dinner i made a squash soup.
roast sweet red peppers in oven, sweat onion and chilli, then mix in some red curry paste, add cubed squash, cubed sweet potato and carrots, add veg stock and then add roasted/blackened peppers. boil, then simmer and add fish sauce, coconut milk, thai basil and lime juice. Blend. (You'll find the exact recipe somewhere online)

eisenberg1 · 30-01-2015 04:18PM

kylith wrote: »

I never peel carrots or potatoes unless I absolutely have to. The peel is were the good stuff is.

Life is too shore for peeling stuff:D

Loire · 30-01-2015 05:01PM

Just thought when posting about my Cod dinner - picked up one of these a few years ago and they're fab - I can fry fish on the hob and then transfer straight into the oven.

LaChatteGitane · 30-01-2015 05:56PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Life is too shore for peeling stuff:D

Especially for peeling butternut squash :pac:

eisenberg1 · 30-01-2015 06:29PM

LaChatteGitane wrote: »

Especially for peeling butternut squash :pac:

I suppose there is always an exception:D

LaChatteGitane · 30-01-2015 06:37PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

I suppose there is always an exception:D

I've said it further up the thread, I never peel pumpkin or butternut squash. I find it an unnecessary palaver and the skins go all soft anyway when cooked.

fiddlechic · 30-01-2015 06:52PM

LaChatteGitane wrote: »

Especially for peeling butternut squash :pac:

Well the microwaving of it is infinitely better than not - but it is still very annoying!

Kat1170 · 30-01-2015 07:01PM

Could you not just slice it in half , roast and scoop out the flesh.

or this

I've said it further up the thread, I never peel pumpkin or butternut squash. I find it an unnecessary palaver and the skins go all soft anyway when cooked. by LaChatteGitane

BaZmO* · 30-01-2015 07:08PM

Kat1170 wrote: »

Could you not just slice it in half , roast and scoop out the flesh.

That's what I do.

eisenberg1 · 30-01-2015 07:44PM

Kat1170 wrote: »

Could you not just slice it in half , roast and scoop out the flesh.

or this

I've said it further up the thread, I never peel pumpkin or butternut squash. I find it an unnecessary palaver and the skins go all soft anyway when cooked. by LaChatteGitane

Roast for half hour maybe?

fiddlechic · 30-01-2015 07:48PM

Have you left the skins on the butternut squash for soup, LaChatteGitane??
Would the skins go that soft that you could blend them?

LaChatteGitane · 30-01-2015 08:18PM

fiddlechic wrote: »

Have you left the skins on the butternut squash for soup, LaChatteGitane??
Would the skins go that soft that you could blend them?

Yes indeed, I do just that.
And when I roast them for, say risotto, I also leave the skin on and eat the lot. The skin goes soft and is actually very tasty.

ChewChew · 31-01-2015 03:37PM

I'm just wondering can anyone answer this: I want to make some focaccia bread but for some reason I have no olive oil (:eek), can I use anyone oil does anyone know/suggest?

Minder · 31-01-2015 03:51PM

What other oil have you got? rapeseed would probably be nice, vegetable oil wouldn't. You need something with some flavour.

ChewChew · 31-01-2015 04:38PM

I Have sunflower, veg and rapeseed. Think I'll use the rapeseed so! Thank you!

MissFlitworth · 31-01-2015 10:44PM

It's payday weekend and I accidentally made out like an absolute bandit today. Hit up some charity shops and got 4 cookbooks for €13 (The 30 Minute Cook, Leith's Book of Baking, Cooking for All Occasions [love the food photos in this. Mmmm 70s] & The Irish Farmers market) and then went to an enchilada/entomatada/enmolada workshop & dinner and went slightly binge-purchase-mental and came home with chipotle & guajillo chilis, tomatillos, white corn tortillas, mole paste, mexican oregano aaaaand a lime press. I'm positively aglow with purchase endorphins. Lime juice anyone?

Cedrus · 31-01-2015 11:46PM

MissFlitworth wrote: »

It's payday weekend and I accidentally made out like an absolute bandit today. Hit up some charity shops and got 4 cookbooks for €13 (The 30 Minute Cook, Leith's Book of Baking, Cooking for All Occasions [love the food photos in this. Mmmm 70s] & The Irish Farmers market) and then went to an enchilada/entomatada/enmolada workshop & dinner and went slightly binge-purchase-mental and came home with chipotle & guajillo chilis, tomatillos, white corn tortillas, mole paste, mexican oregano aaaaand a lime press. I'm positively aglow with purchase endorphins. Lime juice anyone?

You can't beat a retail therapy pig out for endorphins, but? a lime press? For why?

heldel00 · 31-01-2015 11:49PM

Cedrus wrote: »

You can't beat a retail therapy pig out for endorphins, but? a lime press? For why?

Tequila! Da du du du de du du dunn! (Only works if you sing the song!)

MissFlitworth · 31-01-2015 11:57PM

Cedrus wrote: »

You can't beat a retail therapy pig out for endorphins, but? a lime press? For why?

Reason I'm admitting to people: Between guacamole, pico de gallo, occasional margaritas and a massive addiction to diet coke & lime juice I go through more limes than a normal person does (5-6 a week) and I like the idea of not having to squish the living daylights out of them against the door frame anymore to get all the juice.

Actual Reason: Shiny kitchen thing, shiiiiiny.

Cedrus · 01-02-2015 12:26AM

MissFlitworth wrote: »

Reason I'm admitting to people: Between guacamole, pico de gallo, occasional margaritas and a massive addiction to diet coke & lime juice I go through more limes than a normal person does (5-6 a week) and I like the idea of not having to squish the living daylights out of them against the door frame anymore to get all the juice.

Actual Reason: Shiny kitchen thing, shiiiiiny.

OK sounds entirely reasonable, My query was based on the supposition of a lower consumption, and why get a mechanism when I could batter a lime off the counter four times a year. Are you going to post some of these recipes?

Gloomtastic! · 01-02-2015 12:42AM

MissFlitworth wrote: »

Reason I'm admitting to people: Between guacamole, pico de gallo, occasional margaritas and a massive addiction to diet coke & lime juice I go through more limes than a normal person does (5-6 a week) and I like the idea of not having to squish the living daylights out of them against the door frame anymore to get all the juice.

Actual Reason: Shiny kitchen thing, shiiiiiny.

Stuck a lime into the microwave today for 30secs. Juice was spurting out when I cut it.

The Black Oil · 01-02-2015 12:50PM

Does anyone else have the Croí recipe book? It seems a tad obsessed with Donegal rapeseed oil...have never tried it.

IvyTheTerrible · 01-02-2015 02:01PM

Minder wrote: »

Kitchen time with the kids is the best. Tonight I asked my daughter what she wanted to do at the weekend. Busy Sunday, but she says can we spend Saturday in the kitchen. Happy days. She's 11. Now if only I could get her little brother as interested.

Oh I love it too! My son is not even three, and he already loves making cakes with me, he's also a dab hand at pizzas. Now, on Saturdays he asks what cake will we make today!

vicwatson · 01-02-2015 05:14PM

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

Stuck a lime into the microwave today for 30secs. Juice was spurting out when I cut it.

Or just roll it on the countertop with the palm of your hand pressing down as you go.

Loire · 01-02-2015 07:04PM

MissFlitworth wrote: »

It's payday weekend and I accidentally made out like an absolute bandit today. Hit up some charity shops and got 4 cookbooks for €13 (The 30 Minute Cook, Leith's Book of Baking, Cooking for All Occasions [love the food photos in this. Mmmm 70s] & The Irish Farmers market) and then went to an enchilada/entomatada/enmolada workshop & dinner and went slightly binge-purchase-mental and came home with chipotle & guajillo chilis, tomatillos, white corn tortillas, mole paste, mexican oregano aaaaand a lime press. I'm positively aglow with purchase endorphins. Lime juice anyone?

I'm addicted to charity shops! I go in to town (early) every Sat morning to the English Market...stock up for the week, go for a pair of coffees until 10am (when the charity shops open) and then hit 3 or 4 of them and still get home for 11am This Sat I bought about 6 books - 2 of them food related. Such good value. I actually saw the Irish Farmers Market too - is it any good?

Loire.

MissFlitworth · 01-02-2015 10:43PM

Charity shops are the best, great spot for a Saturday wander

Loire wrote: »

I actually saw the Irish Farmers Market too - is it any good?

Haven't made anything from the cookbook yet but the pictures are great

Will report back!

Stench Blossoms · 02-02-2015 12:47PM

Went to Fade St Social last night for dinner and got two portions of my favourite dish - Chargrilled leeks.

I've tried making it myself at home but always turns out messy. Would love to know how to make them.

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