Showing posts with label soup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soup. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Mushroom Beef and Ale Soup


Well, I for one am glad that I have finished the 10 recipes with 5 ingredients, as much fun as that was ... I do enjoy just a few more ingredients to a meal.   I have a couple of questions though... did you like the recipe format I used ? compared to my normal method of just showing you what went into the dish ?   Please leave a comment below , thanks.  
Soup , is always a great choice ... its good any season of the year , for lunch , dinner, even breakfast !!   I love a good soup,  my only problem with making them .. is that I tend to turn them into stews!!  So I was determined the other day to create one , that not only was healthy and tasted great , but that actually resembled a soup!!



Ingredients Required :  

1L of beef broth , or stock ( this is the last of my store bought , gone forever from my kitchen now) 
1lb of a variety of mushrooms   I had white , portabello, shitake and oyster 
2 cups of cooked ground beef 
2 onions 
3 cloves of garlic 
1/2 can of your favourite ale. ( This is a local craft brew , very good !! ) 
A couple of pats of butter 
Salt n Pepper to taste




Here is what you will need 

Simply slice everything up , bite sized for the mushrooms and a medium dice for the onion 
Add it right into the soup pot ,  butter in first then all the onions, mushrooms and garlic together . Season with your favourite herbs,  I went with basil , thyme and oregano/:) Med/High heat .  


Once the Mushrooms and onions have softened just a bit , add the beef in .  Give it all a good stir. 
Once the beef is in the pot for about a minute , pour in the liter of stock, and half the can of ale ...  stir , reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes to blend all the flavours.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Less Words, More Food 7

Hi everyone , and welcome to February :) Its been a cold one here with temperatures dropping to -40C with the wind on some days :)  Lots of good warm comforting food has been required :)  Here are a few of the dishes I have made so far this month.

An Amazing Mushroom Beef & Ale Soup 

Caesar Salad with Cheese on Toast , simple but GOOD! 6 year old cheddar helps :) 

Making Beef Stock, a recent blog post click here to find it:
http://richfletchersgoodfoodrevolution.blogspot.com/2011/02/simple-easy-beef-stock-10w5-9.html