Soups And Starters - Creative Meals With Little Work
Soup is my favorite if I know tomorrow I won’t have much time to cook. Lots of soup recipes are done really quickly. You can use anything to put in. Make sure it contains lots of veggies to give you those essential vitamins and minerals your body needs, but you can also add meat or sausages. I also sometimes put rice or soup noodles in instead of potatoes. Dumplings are also a great “additive” but usually a bit time consuming to make. Preparing lots of them in advance and then deep freezing them until you want to use them could be an option. You can also cut those left-over pancakes and put them in the soup.
Soups are great left-over users and the sky is the limit for your creativity. You can make hundreds of soups without repeating yourself. That is what makes them so great. Another big plus: Most soups can be prepared in advance and either stored in the fridge or deep freezer. When you then need them, you just need to defrost them or heat them up. If a certain soup requires a bit more work, cook enough for two meals and then deep freeze half of it for later.
A very basic but yet delicious and filling soup is this one: 1 ¼ liter of chicken or vegetable stock plus 750-1000g of vegetables cut into small pieces. Remember that vegetables like mushrooms or marrows are usually done quicker than hard veggies like potatoes and carrots, so if you mix them cut the quicker ones into bigger and the ones that take longer into a bit smaller pieces. It takes you just a few minutes to prepare the stock if you boil the water with the kettle, and the veggies are soft after about 15-20 minutes of simmering in the stock. If you like it hearty, you can add some sausages or meat balls to the soup 5-10 minutes before it’s done. They just need to warm up. If you cook them too long, they will just lose their taste. Season with spices of your choice. Serves 4.
Yes, you can also use soups as starters. If you don’t have much time, you most likely won’t have a starter. But maybe it’s a special day and you would like one. That’s why soups are great. You can prepare it some time in advance and then deepfreeze it until you need it. There you got a starter without hassle. But there are also lots of other starters that you can prepare quickly.
After all, if you safe one hour or more on preparing the main course, why not spoiling yourself with a three-course meal? Starter, main meal, dessert - all done in the time you used to work just for an ordinary supper. How does that sound? It is possible! If you consider that you spend easily one and a half hours in the kitchen for making supper, just imagine what your magic hands could create if you had a starter, dinner and dessert recipe that just take half an hour each, for the most! That’s why there are soup, starter and dessert recipes here...
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