Lunch should have its own thread
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polly
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Do you make this to a recipe or just use what you have? And if a recipe can I have it please?
polly I just wanted to recreate the soup we'd had in a pub in Ireland hahaDo you make this to a recipe or just use what you have? And if a recipe can I have it please?
But this is how I do it. Gently fry chopped onions, carrots, swede, celery, leeks and eventually garlic for 10 mins, then bung a litre or more (depending on volume of veg) of good veg stock in, then big-chopped spuds, salt, pepper, fresh parsley (or dried if no fresh), and a bay leaf, bring to boil and and just simmer for about an hour or so. Then whazz it in the blender, leaving about a ladle's worth of chunky veg in the pan, then bung the whazzed soup back in with that. I leave out tomatoes and green veg cos I want it to be a certain colour, and lacking the acidity of toms. The whazzing makes it creamy, I don't add cream to it.
I fucking want it all over again now
Aye - whenever I made a veg soup before, I couldn't resist bunging EVERYTHING in, and the desire to recreate this gorgeous soup put a limit on the ingredients. A good limit!Thank you sojourner!There's something about food you eat on holiday eh - I suppose it's that you know you can't have it again. That sounds lovely.
Anyhoo, today's lunch is leftover tsebhi birsen with white basmati and a dollop of sour cream.
polly
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*googles*<3 Can you just make my lunch every day thanks.
It's another thing from my travels. I was generously given it in the Eritrean restaurant where I did the Sunday London gig and was so enamoured of it I decided to make my own It doesn't come out exactly like they did it, but by the christ - it is ADDICTIVE. Totally replaced all other dhals as the top dog Seasoned Pioneers do an ace berbere mix - my own was a bit hit and miss but theirs is spot on.
Hellsbells
World's best procrastinator
toast with avocado and peanut butter & half a soup carton thing from M&S with tomato, butterbeans and rice. Too early to eat lunnch but have swimming at 3 so need to. Hope it's all digested by then 
polly
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I looove lentils (and subsequent delicious farts
), and I love Eritrean and Ethiopian food so already have some berbere mix in the cupboard 
It might even be from Seasoned Pioneers I'm going to make this - cheers! Again
polly
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toast with avocado and peanut butter & half a soup carton thing from M&S with tomato, butterbeans and rice. Too early to eat lunnch but have swimming at 3 so need to. Hope it's all digested by then
When you're pregnant it's never the wrong time to eat anything
I looove lentils (and subsequent delicious farts
Yeh, we were boffing for Britain last night haha (although tbf, we're like that all the time these days). Ooo do you? Nice one! Enjoy
Rebelda
Nearly as bad as Badgers
Cor, I need that in my belly!
I had lettuce and rocket with oil and vinegar, with roasted sprouts and a sweet chilli salmon fish cake on top. Too cold for just a salad.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
A bag of dolly mixtures.
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
M&S Edamame and black rice salad, salt and black pepper crisps
Maybe a Toffee Crisp after
Maybe a Toffee Crisp after
polly
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Rebelda
Nearly as bad as Badgers
Yeah, what is that? I know exactly what you mean.
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
Hot smoked salmon and potato salad. Pineapple, melon and grape fruit pot.
Sweet potato & courgette "spaghetti" bolognese and salad. No coffee because some dick at work keeps buying instant decaf (we're a coffee shop, we have a massive noisy espresso machine, how can you not notice what coffee we use in months or years of working here?!) and I'm going home early coz I can't handle the chaos here.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Four slices of toast with butter, two with blackcurrant & liquorice jam, the other two with apricot jam on.
2 Staffordshire oatcakes with cheese.
