It was sunny and mid-70’s today.
I made soup.
Even though it wasn’t totally weather-relevant, it tasted great.
The broth was the boiled-down carcass with everything in the kitchen I wanted to get rid of. There was part of an onion, onion skins, garlic, part of a head of lettuce, celery bulb, carrot ends and peels… Odds-and-ends from containers of this-and-that. Seriously clean-out-the-refrigerator.
It made a damned good base! This is the kind of stuff you really can’t screw up. It’s what every decent restaurant in the world does – boils down that stuff that would otherwise go down the garbage disposal. Other than a little salt and pepper, I don’t add any herbs or spices at this point…
The soup itself was chopped carrot, chopped celery, chopped swiss chard, Italian green beans, peas, a can of hominy, and two pastas – pastina and 0’s. herb-wise I added a bit more garlic and some dill. And salt and pepper.
And we had a half-loaf of bread from last night.
Good stuff.