Summer seems like an odd time for soup recipes, but with a little planning, a summer's worth of cooking can yield several meals worth of free soup for the winter!
You'll need a ziplock bag (actually more than one over time, but you'll start with one) to keep in your freezer, and you're going to be bagging things that you would otherwise have thrown away.
Everything needs chopping up into pieces up to an inch or so - but any smaller bits are fine.
When you cook meals all summer (all year even) bear in mind the following:
Before too long you'll have bagfuls of frozen veg bits - when you want soup, fill a pot (or even better, slow cooker) with them, add boiling water (not quite enough to cover everything; It'll boil down), bring it to the boil and then simmer the life out of it! Once everything is soft, just blast it with a blender;
Free Soup!
If it's a bit low on flavor, you can upgrade from free soup to very cheap soup by stirring in some chicken or vegetable bullion.
Season with salt, pepper, an (optionally) chilli flakes.
You'll need a ziplock bag (actually more than one over time, but you'll start with one) to keep in your freezer, and you're going to be bagging things that you would otherwise have thrown away.
Everything needs chopping up into pieces up to an inch or so - but any smaller bits are fine.
When you cook meals all summer (all year even) bear in mind the following:
- Using broccoli or cauliflower?, chop up the stalks and leaves and throw them in the bag.
- Fresh peas? Pods get cut up and go in the bag.
- Cooked too much veg? Bag it.
- Too many potatoes (boiled, mashed or roast)? Bag.
- Topped and tailed carrots or celery? - The ends go in the bag.
- Kept some veg a bit too long and it's "use it or bin it" day? if you don't have a use for it today, then chop it and bag it!
- That bit at the end of the onion that you just can't slice properly? - Chop it roughly and stick it in the bag.
Before too long you'll have bagfuls of frozen veg bits - when you want soup, fill a pot (or even better, slow cooker) with them, add boiling water (not quite enough to cover everything; It'll boil down), bring it to the boil and then simmer the life out of it! Once everything is soft, just blast it with a blender;
Free Soup!
If it's a bit low on flavor, you can upgrade from free soup to very cheap soup by stirring in some chicken or vegetable bullion.
Season with salt, pepper, an (optionally) chilli flakes.
