Japanese Style Soup

This is so easy and tastes great. It's also a very versatile recipe, where i've used prawns here, chicken, crab or pork works well, and with a little tweak, beef is good too.


Ingredients:

7 or 8 small mushrooms
1 red pepper
3/4 spring onions (Scallions)
1 handfull peeled prawns
3 leaves of greens ( I used swiss chard here, it was in the garden, Pak Choi works very well)
2 Packets instant noodles
chives
parsley
coriander
Lemon Juice
1/2 tbsp sherry or white wine
1tsp fish sauce (Optional)
1 vegetable stock cube





Bring a medium pan of water to the boil,
add the stock cube, chopped pepper and spring onions and the mushrooms.













After about 5 minutes, add the noodles.
If they come with a sachet of flavouring, discard it. Also add the sherry or wine.

After a couple of minutes, chop your greens, and add them, and everything else to the pan.

Simmer until the prawns are cooked right through.

This should make a big hearty meal for at least

three people. Its deceptively filling.

Enjoy!

Roasted Tomato Soup

Easiest recipe yet!

Ingredients:

2lb ripe tomatoes

1 clove garlic

1 onion

any peppers you have lying around

optional 1 chilli

Halve the tomatoes and chop everything else and throw it all in a rosting tin, like this.

If you want ant herbs, basil or parsely etc, put them in now as well.

Drizzle a little olive oil over it, and salt and pepper to taste. Put the above in the oven at about 190 oC for about an hour.

until it looks like this..

If you want lumps in your soup, take about 3/4 of the roasted stuff and put it in a blender. If you prefer a smooth soup, put it all in the blender.

What ever is left, leave it in the rosting tin, add about 250ml chicken stock and put it on a high heat on the hob until simmering. give it a good stir with a wooden spoon to deglaze the pan, this adds a lot of flavour, and ensures nothing is wasted.

If you left any bits for lumpy soup, give it a bit of a mash with a fork.

Then combine this with what is in the blender and voila, tomato soup.

Chocolate Brownies

Who doesn't like brownies?

And they are so easy to make...

Ingredients:

100g Melted Butter

250g Caster Sugar

2 Eggs
1tsp Vanilla Essence
100g Plain Flour

50g Cocoa Powder.

Sieve the flour and cocoa powder together into

a bowl.

Add the sugar, and beat the eggs.

Add the melted butter, eggs and vanilla.

If you like nuts in your brownies, chuck em in now.

Beat the mixture well, you want to get a bit of air into it, so the brownies rise a bit in the oven.

Pour the mixture into a tin lined with baking

paper.

As you can see, this stage is really exciting!!!

Put the brownies on the middle shelf of the oven,

pre-heted to 170 oC / Gas 3

Bake for about 30 minutes.

Take 'em out and they should look a bit like this...

poke it with a skewer or knife, if you are used

to making sponges, it will look a little undercooked. Remember the brownies should be a bit gooey in the middle.

Let them cool , and then cut into squares.