Tuesday 5 January 2010

5: Chicken broth with noodles, lemon and mint, p22

Using up the rest of the chicken broth and some of the roast chicken from Sunday - really zingy, quick soup, which was really rather nice - will definitely make this again, and will have to because I forgot to take a piccie of this one. Apparently the recipe is 'enough for 2 as a main dish' but I made half the volume and it was plenty for both of us for lunch - and more meat than I'd normally put in a soup, so a happy carnivorous hubby, even with though it included coriander, which he hates.

Clear soups like this remind me of 'UFO soups' from a family holiday to Austria many many years ago. We stayed in a little family run guest house in Soll, Tirol, where every night they served a different (?) very salty consomme/broth with what we termed 'Unidentified Floating Objects' which became a family game each evening trying to work out what they were (tiny mushrooms, spring onions, croutons, minestrone...).  If not extremely salty, the UFO soups unfortunately had a tendency to taste rather like one imagines dishwater with lemony washing up liquid might, so unfortunately this recipe triggered this memory-association slightly... although I thought it was best not to mention this as we were eating in case T refused to eat any more...

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