Tomatosoup on mothers day

Today we enjoyed tomatosoup for lunch. I enjoyed it and the boys as well. Then we went to the beach and the weather was so lovely that the boys could get rid og their shoes and socks and enjoy the fresh breeze at the ocean getting their small feet all wet. Wonderful afternoon. In the morning I sat in the local church, I am going there regularly for a year now, but today it was the first time that I actually talked to the woman that always sits in the same row as me, we exchanged names, and when we wished peace to each other, we said our names and smiled, and I felt at home in this church for the first time since we have moved to this little city by the sea. I wish you all a wonderful weekend.

Mama's minestrone

May I reinvite you for an occasional bowl of soup ? Today we have some minestrone simmmering on the stove. My grandmother has italian roots, so enjoy it. One of my favourite bloggers is Ann Voskamp, author of A Holy Experience and I would therefore like to contribute to her project 1000 mamas here on my blog in which by thanking your mother in public you can help mothers and children in Haiti. My mother is wonderful. She is a warchild. Already her existence is a little miracle, in the midst of the war my grandmother became unexpected pregnant at 48 and delivered her baby in a night in August with a C-section, bombs were falling on the city, the electricity went of during the procedure, but mother and child survived. My mother and grandmother were always very close. My grandmother lived with us while I grew up. My mother and I are very close although we live in different cities, even countries, but there rarely goes a day without us talking to each other. She is always there for me. She always knows when her help is needed and offers it with open hands. Thank you, Mama. Charlotte.

Cheesefondue is a kind of soup

This week I ate my soup, but unfortunately I do not have enogh time to post.

Yesterday we had guests for a lovely swiss cheese fondue, it was very cosy and there has come snow as well.

Cheesefondue

Ingredients|

You need 250 g cheese per person, we already get it in small grinded in the shop, we use half Vaccherincheese and half Gruyerecheese, garlic, maizena, nutmeg, white vine and kirsch, bread

First you need a ceramic pot for the fondue, a caquelon, you rub garlic at the bottom and the sides of the pot, put in the cheeses with some vine and kirsch, melt them and bring to a boil, add pepper and nutmeg. Put the caquelon on a rechaud and dip your bread in your cheese soup. Serve with white vine or tea.

Enjoy with some friends,

have a wonderful sunday, Charlotte

How to get my children into souping

I hope you had a nice weekend. I cooked several soups for the week ahead and my husband, too. Yesterday I had a soup from the local vegetable soup with a vegetable called sunchoke or Jerusalem artichoke. It looks like gingerbbut has a sweet nutty taste, well, although I like sweet, I did not enjoy it to much.

Day 22

Creamy Sunchokesoup

Ingredients:

sunchokes, cream and sunfloweroil.

Recipe secret of our local veggie shop.

I rated it **.

Today I made a child friendly soup, at least partly.

Day 23

Bellpepper soup wth pasta

Ingredients:

1 red bell pepper, 1 yellow bell pepper, some tomato concentrate, water, paprika spice, 1 onion, pasta, sour cream

Cut onions into pieces and bell peppers, saute in olive oil, add boiling water, tomato concentate, salt, pepper and mild paprika spice and some pasta, let simmer for 20 min. Serve with a spoon of sour cream.

My children wanted to eat the soup, at least they fished the pasta out of it, next time I will puree the vegetables so that they become invisible !

I did not find it spicey enough.

I rated it **.

No more soup left, all gone, but tomorrow there will be a new bowl.

Charlotte.

Celerysoup with clams

Last bowl of creamy cheesy selerysoup. Today I added clams. Hmmm, I love seafood.

Day 21

Celerycreamsoup with clams

Ingredients:

Leftover celerycreamsoup, clams

Bring the soup to a boil, add clams, let cook for about 10 min, only eat the clams that have opened.

Enjoy.

I rated it *****

Have a wonderful weekend.

Charlotte.

Celery aux deux fromages

The initial celerycreamsoup was made with blue cheese. Today I aded to it some parmesan cheese.

Day 20

Celerycreamsoup aux deux fromages

Ingredients:

Leftover celerycreamsoup,ginger, grated parmesan

Warm the soup up, bring to a boil, add ginger and grated parmesan cheese, stirr until melted, let simmer for about five minutes.

Enjoy.

This soup is getting better and better.

I rated it ****

and there is still a bowl left for tomorrow.

Charlotte.

Spiced up celerysoup

Yesterday I was unfortunately not able to post, but I had soup. And soup today. I had some celerycreamsoup in the freezer and spiced it up.

Day 18

Celerycreamsoup a la persillade

Ingredients:

Leftover celerycreamsoup, quite a lot of parsley

Warm the soup and add the parsley.

Voila.

I liked this soup more then the first one but it was not spicy enough

I rated it ***.

Day 19

Celerycreamsoup with ginger

Ingredients:

Leftover celerycreamsoup with parsley, quite a lot og ginger

Bring the soup to a boil and add the ginger, I had some in powder, let simmer for five minutes.

This mix was nice.

I rated it ****.

There is still some celerycreamsoup in the freezer so come by and have another bowl tomorrow,

Charlotte.