Apr. 5th, 2012 10:04 pm
How green was my Thursday?
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muckefuckI'm pleased enough with how the soup turned out that I think I'll serve it to our guests on Sunday. I picked all the sorrel and spicy greens that I thought looked eating size and it only weighed in at 2 ounces, so I used boughten watercress and baby spinach to make up the difference. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
monshu liked the mixed of flavours and the colour was a good deal more vibrant than what you can get with sorrel alone. (It has a tendency to turn the soup a rather brackish olive colour.) Sadly I couldn't find any decent vegetable stock, so I went with a cup of chicken broth in a quart of water to avoid a saltsplosion. That was a wise decision.
Since for once I wasn't the one having to pick up after dinner, I relaxed with a homemade woodruff soda. I'm definitely going to have to make all the syrup I can before the stuff blooms--which it's threatening to do right now. The recipe I have calls for 100 grammes, which turns out is my whole patch several times over, so I made one-tenth a batch as an experiment and I like the results. It's a good deal thicker than simple syrup, but powerful enough you could easily thin it down to that strength. Now to think up some cocktails! By a stroke of serendipity, while picking up the watercress and butter for the roux I came across an Easter egg dyeing kit abandoned in one of the aisles--just the kind of cheesy thing I was hoping to have on hand for this Saturday night It promises "neon colours", so eat your heart out, Martha!
monshu liked the mixed of flavours and the colour was a good deal more vibrant than what you can get with sorrel alone. (It has a tendency to turn the soup a rather brackish olive colour.) Sadly I couldn't find any decent vegetable stock, so I went with a cup of chicken broth in a quart of water to avoid a saltsplosion. That was a wise decision.Since for once I wasn't the one having to pick up after dinner, I relaxed with a homemade woodruff soda. I'm definitely going to have to make all the syrup I can before the stuff blooms--which it's threatening to do right now. The recipe I have calls for 100 grammes, which turns out is my whole patch several times over, so I made one-tenth a batch as an experiment and I like the results. It's a good deal thicker than simple syrup, but powerful enough you could easily thin it down to that strength. Now to think up some cocktails! By a stroke of serendipity, while picking up the watercress and butter for the roux I came across an Easter egg dyeing kit abandoned in one of the aisles--just the kind of cheesy thing I was hoping to have on hand for this Saturday night It promises "neon colours", so eat your heart out, Martha!