Sunday, July 26, 2009

Sickness Soup (Spinach and Pea)

I've had a fascinating new experience over the last few days: I think I've had 'flu. For the first time. I've tried to view it as a learning opportunity, but honestly, these are lessons I could have happily lived with out.

So, I had a cold which incorporated aching and exhaustion, which probably makes it 'flu, though I didn't have a fever, so didn't bother with the Swine 'Flu helpline. Anyway, the other astonishing symptom was - take a seat - loss of appetite. I'm not kidding, I missed quite a few meals, and didn't even think of having a snack. But yesterday, when I was marginally better than on Friday night, I thought I ought to have something. We have fresh spinach from this week's box, so I made a very simple soup, supplementing the spinach with frozen peas. Obviously, being sick I didn't measure anything, so this will be as vague as me when I made it. If you're fully -functioning, you might like to add some herbs (basil or mint would both be good), but really it's pretty tasty as-is:

  • Fill the kettle and turn it on
  • Put a couple of teaspoons of Marigold Vegetable Bouillon in a saucepan
  • Chop a handful or so of fresh spinach into about 1-2cm strips
  • Pour the now boiling water from the kettle into the saucepan - probably about 750ml-ish?
  • Turn on the heat under the saucepan, add the chopped spinach and some frozen peas - say half-to-one mugs-worth
  • Cover and bring to the boil
  • Check a pea and a picee of spinach stalk to check they are softened, and turn off the heat if so
  • Puree in a blender
  • Ladle into a bowl, grate over some hard cheese if you feel up to it, and return to your nest on the sofa to eat
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