Wednesday 10 October 2018

Soups Up!


Sometimes when I buy vegetables to cook a dish, I end up with leftovers. I had leeks leftover from my partner's food prep, sweet potatoes from cooking dad's porridge, potatoes from a yet-to-be-baked Shepard's pie (hah!), pumpkin from cooking pumpkin rice and kale/cauliflower/chickpeas from a recent salad.

I used to keep these in the fridge until they go bad and I was determined not to be so wasteful. Since I had bone broth at my disposal, I made this vegetable soup of sorts.


I just sauteed some garlic and onions and the leeks and added the bone broth. The one by one the leftover vegetables went in, the ones that take longer to cook going in first.


When you have a great soup base like bone broth, your soup will turn  out awesome. But of course if you don't have any on hand, just water and a good stock cube or two will do the trick.


I portion the soup into my recently acquired glasslock containers and store them in the fridge.


That's dinner for the week, folks!

29 comments:

  1. Not a big fan of leeks. Not sure I would enjoy this soup. Hahaha.

    The only time I indulge in some leeks would be during cny time. Lol.

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    1. Leeks stir fried with prawns is very nice.

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  2. this looks ultra-comforting - irresistible for dinner especially for this month when we're being plagued with evening thunderstorms everyday :D

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    1. A bowl of hot soup to warm us up while sitting on the sofa watching TV is comfort at its best!

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  3. Oh my! Your soup looks so delicious! They are healthy too and also serve the important purpose of using up your vegetables so that they do not go to waste. I could eat them for my lunch since I am going without rice nowadays. So yummy! You can definitely open an eatery just to sell this soup and your ulam/kerabu rice, not to mention your delicious cakes as well.

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  4. LOL. I love "this vegetable soup of sorts"! What a word to describe an unnamed soup. It would become Kiam Chye Boey in Penang after weddings and funerals in olden days. I will raid my 2 big fridges tonight to see anything to make my "vegetable soup of sorts".

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    1. LOL! All sorts of veges can go into soup. Sedap leh!

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  5. Your vegetable soup looks more like a vegetable stew....so thick (and yummy, I'm sure)! ;) How I wish I've got some frozen soups in my freezer right now...for rainy evenings that's happening on a daily basis these days. :(

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    1. Hey, I have yet to freeze soups so you have given me another thing to freeze!

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  6. Dinner for the week??? If I only had that, I would be as thin as a rake after 7 days. LOL!!!

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  7. This is so delicious. I love everything with pumpkin. Soup like this is my top favorite. I cook this as I am on vegan these few days.

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  8. Like you, I also rummaged and make a dish with all the leftovers, a little bit here and there and viola..... A Dish is born! :)

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  9. so much 'liew' in ur soup....very nourishing!

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  10. Wow! Those look yummy and I'm sure they're quite filling too.

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  11. Thumbs up to your soup up! LOL!

    What a comfy soup with so much liew, I would love to have them since these two days have been raining and the weather is cooling.

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    1. LOL! It's easy to eat and very practical.

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  12. Hearty and delicious soup! Would go great with some crusty sourdough bread, wink!!!
    Hahahaha....have a great week Phong Hong!

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    1. Oh yes, sourdough bread would really complete the picture!

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  13. Hi PH...Morningggggg....Lama tak datang sini kacau PH...sihat ke?

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  14. I don't mind having one tub of your mixed veggie soup. Looks good and healthy!

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    1. It's delicious and healthy and very filling.

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  15. What a wholesome and tummy warmer for the recent rainy evening~~~

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