Saturday 1 June 2013

Pumpkin soup

Well Katie here's the pumpkin soup you've been asking for. However I am sure you have made this already and your friends love you for this.
I  remember Katie taking this soup in the winter months to school and her friends would put a request in as they would steel most of her lunch . I would have to make this soup in bulk, just so katie could take it to school to share.
So here it is.




1 WHOLE large Pumpkin peeled and diced
100grams butter
5 gloves of garlic
2 large onions
2 teaspoons of nutmeg
12 cups of water
10 teaspoons of chicke stock powder.


In a large soup pot melt the butter and fry the onions and garlic . Add the nutmeg and cook until onions are soft. Add all the diced Pumpkin and coat the pumpkin with the melted butter and onions.  Add the water and chicken stock . Bring to boil then simmer until the pumpkin is well cooked. Let cool and then blend all the pumpkin and onions until smooth.
With this I sifted all the pumpkin and onions so the liquid is separate. I put the liquid in a jug and put it aside. I then add the blended pumpkin back to soup pot and add the liquid bit by bit until it the right thickness . You don't want the soup to thick or to thin.  
Before you serve it add a dash of cream.
You can freeze this.
If you try this you won't stop making it and of course eat it . 

Nutella Brownies

This weekend I had to try a quick and easy recipe that was posted on Facebook. I have so many things planned for today with friends coming to dinner and a crochet blanket to finish but still wanted to get some baking done. Not that this lasted long on the bench. But three ingredients is all I needed and that suited for today of baking.





1 cup of Nutella
2 eggs
10 tablespoons of plain flour



Mix all ingredients together well and spoon into cup cakes wrappers. Sprinkle with a little chopped up hazelnuts.
Bake in preheated oven at 180 c . Now here is the trick bit . It said for 30 minutes but I took them out after 20 minutes.  But I think 15 minutes . You should check.  Touch and if they spring back they are done.
Try them heated with a little ice cream .
See so easy and yum . Enjoy I did.