Attaching the electrodes of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance.

This is a blog, so I can be honest here; I’m not really a big fan of cooking. I like cooking things that are simple and fast.

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This recipe is fast, cheap, easy, and makes enough soup to act as a base for your lunches for the week, and involves less than 15 minutes of actual work (you can ignore it pretty safely while it cooks). We (Tracey and I) will add things like chopped up hot dogs, meatballs, sliced up chicken breasts (but not all at the same time) into the soup – depending on our mood that day (and what we have on hand).

The soup is very low calorie – the it works out to about 86 calories a serving (375ml or 1.6 cups), so it is an excellent easy start to eating healthy!

I made the video to show everyone how easy this is to do – and it *is* easy.

For those who would like something they can read here you go:

What you will need:

• A working stove.
• A large pot (my pot is 4.7 litres / 5 quarts) with lid.
• A 2 KG (~4.4 pounds) bag of frozen vegetables.
• Two or three potatoes (which ever kind you like) to make the soup creamier (optional)
• A few peppers or other vegetables (optional)
• A wooden spoon (to stir the soup)
• A ladle (to scoop the soup out)
• A knife and cutting board (to cut the potatoes and peppers on)
• Six containers with lids that hold 750 ml (3.25 cups or 25 fluid ounces)

What to do:

1) Put a few centimetres of water in the bottom of the pot and turn the heat on to boil.

2) Wash, then chop your potatoes and dump them into the water.

3) Open the bag of vegetables and dump into the pot, evening out the vegetables.

4) Add your peppers or other soft vegetables

5) Add water to within 2-3 cm (1 inch) of the top, put lid on and go do something else for 30 minutes.

6) Stir the soup a few times, put lid back on, and go back to surfing the Internet for 30 minutes.

7) Stir the soup, and if the vegetables are cooked (check a piece of potato to see if it is easily pierced by a fork), then turn the heat off.
Use a hand blender to blend the soup until it is a nice puree.

9) Scoop the soup into containers, put the lids on and place then in the freezer.

10) Wash the one pot, one lid, wooden spoon, ladle, knife, cutting board and relax, you’re done!

Thanks

This post arose out of an IM discussion with my friend David (who recently celebrated his first wedding anniversary – Congrats!) and runs BloggingWeight.com where he is (was?) documenting his personal battle with weight loss and helping others to do the same. So, thanks for giving me the idea to make a video of this super-easy soup, David!

About the video:

The video was shot a couple of weeks ago while on my own (Tracey was elsewhere) in our kitchen on my Canon GL2, recording to a Focus Enhancements Firestore FS-4 , and was edited in Final Cut Pro (5.x).