The autumn soup

[len_p]

The autumn soup

It has been cold today, it rained and it was very windy. I've listened to the drums concert with a bit of extra cold in the heart so I've decided to heat a bit up with some soup as I only had some very little bean paste in the fridge. A soup with autumn ingredients good for a cold, windy day.

Ingredients

In order of how hard they get soft (thus requiring more time to boil)

• 3 carrots
• 3 potatoes, 2 tbs of rice
• 1 onion, 2 tomatoes
• 2 eggs
• some lovage leaves for the final aroma

Preparation

• cut the potatoes, tomatoes, carrots in small pieces and the onion in 4 or 8 pieces
• mix a bit the eggs to add some air
• cut the lovage
• start with the carrots which get soft the hardest and 2-3 litters of water and wait for the water to boil
• now add the potatoes and rice as the second stage as they get soft more easy than the carrots
• add the onion and tomatoes
• near the end add the eggs and mix

• after the end add the cut leaves of lovage

• serve hot and forget about the windy noises

 

[CharlieD]

What are the red things in the soup?

 

[len_p]

Carrots and tomatoes

There are the carrots which are more orange than red and the tomatoes.

 

[CharlieD]

Oh, sorry did not notice them on the recipe. What about the lovage leaves what are they?

 

[GotGarlic]

Hi, Charlie. Lovage is an herb: Lovage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[CharlieD]

Wow, sounds almost amasing. Do we have it growing here in the States?

 

[GotGarlic]

It sounds like it will grow almost anywhere here: Lovage: An Old Herb for Healthy Lifestyles

From what little I've read, I gather it's difficult to find in stores, unless you have a high-end gourmet store nearby, but it's easy to grow.

 

[len_p]

For me lovage and parsley are the most common herbs you can find everywhere in the market for most of the year. Lovage has a nice flavor at it's added at the end because it looses the aroma if boiled. Parsley is stronger. Sometimes I also use summer savory (Satureia hortensis) for cooked meat as this herb is also very common. Less common are the basil which I grow myself.

During the spring there are also a lot of herbs (more weeds I would call them) such as mountain spinach, pigweed.

I would love to know more but I'm just learning.