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Yummy Lummy hot and spicy cauliflower and sweet potato soup

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Bacon pieces, chopped onion, cauliflower, sweet potato, chilli flakes and curry powder.
Bacon pieces, chopped onion, cauliflower, sweet potato, chilli flakes and curry powder.

Yummy Lummy hot and spicy cauliflower and sweet potato soup

Hot and spicy cauliflower and sweet potato soup is a thing. I know cauliflower soup isn’t to everyone’s liking, but the addition of some curry powder, chilli flakes and roasted sweet potato can make a big difference.

This is a Yummy Lummy original recipe.

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How do you make cauliflower soup taste sensational?

Posted by Gary

Cauliflower soup is one of my favourite dishes because it tastes great and is easy to make. Winter is approaching and weekend soup is definitely a thing.

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Sensationally tasting cauliflower soup made with chillies, curry powder and blue cheese Gary Lum
Sensationally tasting cauliflower soup made with chillies, curry powder and blue cheese
Sensationally tasting cauliflower soup made with chillies, curry powder and blue cheese Gary Lum
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How do you make cauliflower soup taste sensational?
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
40 mins
Total Time
50 mins
 
This recipe will have you wanting another bowl, even after you feel full.
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Australian
Servings: 3
Calories: 500 kcal
Author: Gary Lum
Ingredients
  • 1 piece cauliflower remove leaves and breakdown florets
  • 100 grams bacon pieces bought from a delicatessen
  • 1 piece potato cut into cubes
  • 1 tablespoon curry powder Clive of India
  • 2 glugs olive oil
  • ½ piece white onion diced
  • 1 piece stock cube chicken
  • 1 teaspoon chilli flakes
  • ¼ cup cream
  • ¼ cup cheese grated
  • ¼ cup parsley chopped
  • 1 litre boiling water from a kettle
Instructions

  1. Add the olive oil to a saucepan

  2. Sauté the bacon pieces and diced onion
  3. Add the potato and cauliflower
  4. Add sufficient boiling water to cover the potato and cauliflower
  5. Add the stock cube and curry power
  6. Bring the water to the boil and turn down to a simmer
  7. Simmer until the cauliflower and potato are tender (at least 30 minutes)
  8. Remove the saucepan from the heat source
  9. Use a stick blender to process the soup

  10. Add the cream

  11. Add the grated cheese, chilli flakes and cream and then stir through

  12. Prior to serving to recipients (me) add the chopped parsley

  13. Serve in a bowl
Recipe Notes

As winter approaches this is a soup to be made again and again. If you choose, this goes nicely with a piece of bread or a roll or just on its own.

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As much as I love pumpkin soup, I really enjoy this cauliflower soup.

I’ve previously posted recipes for cauliflower soup, one had celeriac and spam while the other had Pialligo Farm bacon with Gorgonzola cheese.

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How to make pork and cabbage soup

Posted by Gary
The Yummy Lummy Cooking for one podcast
The Yummy Lummy Cooking for one podcast
How to make pork and cabbage soup
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Click on the play button above for the audio podcast. The YouTube video is below.

Pork and cabbage soup on Canberra labour day 2016, what a great idea! A great way to use leftover slowly cooked pork shoulder.

It’s been two long weekends in a row. Not a bad thing. This weekend also marked the beginning of daylight saving in some states and the Australian Capital Territory. Getting an extra day to manage a slightly earlier start is a good thing.

The weather in Canberra has been good. On Saturday and today, we’ve had rain and overcast skies. Sunday was bright, shiny and relatively warm. I managed to get out for a walk around Lake Ginninderra and shoot a couple of photographs. I wanted to play with some new software. It seemed to produce a couple of nice pictures.

Lake Ginninderra photographs

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The cabbage soup

On Sunday, I put a boneless pork shoulder in the slow cooker and had a nice simple pork and cabbage dinner. Today I used some of the leftover pork and boiled some cabbage along with some coconut milk to make a nice soup.

What went into the cabbage soup

  • Leftover pork shoulder in bite sized chunks
  • A quarter of a small drumhead cabbage finely shredded
  • One packet of salt reduced French onion soup
  • Use a single jalapeño pepper and red chilli sliced with the seeds included
  • Two hundred and seventy millilitres of coconut milk

How to put the cabbage soup together

  1. In a large saucepan boil the cabbage and French onion soup until the cabbage is soft.
  2. Toss in the pork and bring it back to the boil for a couple of minutes to heat the pork through.
  3. Drain out most of the water and add the coconut milk and bring it to the boil and then turn down the heat and allow it to simmer for a few minutes.
  4. Ladle the soup into a large bowl and then garnish with the chillies and peppers along with some chopped chives.

How does the cabbage soup taste?

Pork and cabbage soup

It was pretty good. I thought about adding some curry powder, but the chilli and peppers added the right amount of spice while the coconut milk gave it a creamy texture.

Final words

As a kid, I didn’t like cabbage very much but as an adult, I’ve come to enjoy it as a vegetable that can absorb flavours much like pasta can. While boiling it removes the nutritional value, the fibre is still in it and it makes a great filler.

If you try this recipe please let me know what you think.

Rainbow over Lake Ginninderra

Green split pea and ham soup! Still fart worthy!

Posted by Gary

Green split pea and ham soup needs to be green

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Introduction

Last Sunday I made the most fart worthy pea and ham soup. It lived up to expectations in terms of flatus, however, it had an awful faeculent colour and wasn’t what I was hoping for in terms of a pea and ham soup. I was hoping for a nice deep green colour. So this week I’m having another go at making green split pea and ham soup.

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What did I put in it this time?

Split green peas, Stock, Potato, Onion, Jalapeño, Celery
Split green peas, Stock, Potato, Onion, Jalapeño, Celery

Okay last week I used carrot, this week I’m using potato.

  • Ham hock—I bought a big one this time from the delicatessen at Coles.
  • Speck—No pulled pork this week. I had a lump of fatty speck that was approaching its best use by date. I hoping the fat will dissolve nicely in the soup.
  • Potato—I diced two spuds
  • Onion—I diced a slightly smaller onion than the one I used last week. Last week, the whole apartment took on a slightly onion smell and I figure the more onion meant more farting too.
  • Celery—I used three sticks. I want this soup to be green.
  • Jalapeño—I used two for some extra kick and for the green!
  • Stock—This time I used Coles brand salt reduced chicken stock. Last week the soup was well seasoned but it didn’t need to be that salty. This stock was also considerably cheaper.
  • Split peas—I used a 500 gram packet. But I forgot to wash them first.

What to do with all the stuff

  1. In the slow cooker vessel, I added the diced vegetables and the unwashed split peas.
  2. Give it all a good stir around.
  3. Add the two litres of stock and stirred.
  4. Put in the speck and the ham hock.
  5. Cook for six hours.
  6. After six hours I removed the ham hock and speck. I pulled the skin off both and discarded it. I then pulled the muscle bundles apart into chunk sized portions. Discard the bones.
  7. With a stick blender smooth the remaining soup.
  8. Add some of the ham to the bottom of a bowl and ladle in some soup to the desired volume.
  9. Top with spring onions, chives and red chilli.
  10. Aliquot the remaining soup into containers for freezing.
  11. Shoot a photograph and make a nice picture.
  12. Drink the soup and enjoy the salty goodness.
  13. Prepare to fart for another 24 hours and hope the meetings I attend have ventilation.
  14. Write the recipe.
  15. Blog (verb)

What does it look like?

Slow cooker split green pea and ham soup with Jalapeño peppers and chilli for kick
Slow cooker split green pea and ham soup with Jalapeño peppers and chilli for kick

It’s a pleasant shade of green. Well almost green. Better than last week anyway.

What does it taste like?

It’s a great soup and worth waiting six hours for.

The ham was nice and tender. The speck added a great touch.

Final words

I prefer the green look rather than the mustard yellow of last week’s soup.

Check out the video of some of the preparation.

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Asparagus soup and my pee #aussiespears are awesome

Posted by Gary

I looked back at my Instagram feed since receiving my Australian Asparagus Council asparagus package and noticed I haven’t done anything more than roast or pan-fry my #aussiespears Tonight I made soup. I saw an image on Instagram as I was searching the #aussiespears feed and came across https://instagram.com/p/7M-YMKDvev/ from my friend Lisa.

It also made me think that if I’m going to be cooking two bundles of asparagus I’m going to have wickedly smelling urine tonight.

I looked up a few websites to find an explanation and despite knowing about the phenomenon for centuries, there are no clear cut answers. Some people produce the sulphuric breakdown products and some people can smell them. Some people don’t produce malodorous urine and some people cannot smell the breakdown products.

While some people complain the smell is awful, I’ve never found it objectionable. That’s not to say I find it pleasant. To me it’s like when I smell petroleum products. It’s not a pleasant smell but it’s a compelling smell. The same with glue.

The good thing is sniffing asparagus urine is not dangerous like petrol and glue sniffing. Even better with all the silverbeet I’ve eaten my stools will be tarry black tomorrow. 

You can also see #aussiespears on Facebook!

I don’t know what recipe Lisa used so I made one up.

Asparagus soup and my pee #aussiespears are awesome
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: [url href=”https://about.me/garydlum” target=”_blank”]Gary Lum[/url]
Prep time:
Cook time:
Total time:
Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • Olive oil
  • Asparagus 2 bundles
  • [cap align=”alignnone” width=”1200″][url href=”undefined”][img src=”https://yummylummy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/2015-09-05_17.20.32_002_GARY_LUM_FB.jpg” width=”1200″ height=”801″ class=” size-full” title=”Asparagus” alt=”Asparagus”][/url]Asparagus[/cap]
  • Silverbeet 1 bunch
  • [cap align=”alignnone” width=”1200″][url href=”undefined”][img src=”https://yummylummy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/2015-09-05_16.06.44_001_GARY_LUM_FB.jpg” width=”1200″ height=”801″ class=” size-full” title=”Silverbeet” alt=”Silverbeet”][/url]Silverbeet[/cap]
  • Balsamic vinegar
  • French onion soup sachet
  • Water
  • Greek yoghurt
Instructions
  1. Cut the asparagus spears into 2 cm segments and sautée in some olive oil in a large saucepan
  2. Shred the leaves and slice the stems of a large bunch of silverbeet and cook off with the asparagus
  3. Add a dash of balsamic vinegar
  4. Cook until everything has softened
  5. Add 1 litre of water
  6. Add one sachet of French onion soup
  7. Bring to the boil and simmer for 30 minutes
  8. Serve in a large bowl
  9. Add a dollop of Greek yoghurt
  10. Garnish with the tips of some asparagus
  11. Shoot a photograph
  12. Drink the soup
  13. Wash the dishes
  14. Write the recipe
  15. Enjoy the rich thiol rich aroma of sulphur every time I empty my bladder
  16. Blog (verb)
Saturday dinner. Asparagus and silverbeet soup.
Saturday dinner. Asparagus and silverbeet soup.

Now it’s time for me to share how I spent my Saturday.

Saturday breakfast. Fried egg, smoked salmon and asparagus.
Saturday breakfast. Fried egg, smoked salmon and asparagus.
Saturday breakfast. Fried egg, smoked salmon and asparagus.
Saturday breakfast. Fried egg, smoked salmon and asparagus.
Blossoms on Lake Ginninderra
Blossoms on Lake Ginninderra
Pelican on Lake Ginninderra
Pelican on Lake Ginninderra
Injectable confetti vanilla cupcake from Heather's House of Cake.
Injectable confetti vanilla cupcake from Heather’s House of Cake. [This was really nice].
Saturday lunch. Salmon and vegetable rissole on a poppyseed bagel.
Saturday lunch. Salmon and vegetable rissole on a poppyseed bagel.

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Saturday breakfast. Fried egg, smoked salmon and asparagus.


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