Disclaimer: As always you are welcome to disagree with me these are my own hang ups and I totally accept that your hang ups are most likely different from mine 🙂
I cant explain why this made me angry but it did…
Here we go…If you give me pumpkin soup it should be made with pumpkin!
If you add a potato it is not pumpkin soup! Its pumpkin-heavy vegetable soup *grumble*
Yes, I tested the pumpkin soup recipe today and yes, it had a large potato in it and yes the end result tasted like potatoey pumpkinish soup 🙁 and yes, I did not like it :(.
The recipe involved cooking onion until clear and then adding in pumpkin, potato, and boiling. I have had a lot of pumpkin soups in my life, in fact it’s my favourite soup in the world – but this, my dear friends, tastes like bums (excuse my language). It really really does! It doesn’t taste like pumpkin soup. Its flavourless. This soup made me so sad. ïŒ
When I make pumpkin soup all I do is roast some pumpkin (seasoned with a little salt) until its nice and soft and caramelised (but of course not burnt), and then I blitz it with a little milk or chicken stock to loosen it up. I add more chicken stock and milk until I get a good soupy consistency. Its so simple it should be illegal and because the pumpkin is roasted it has a full pumpkin flavour. Yum!
Sometimes its good to be adventurous so if the mood takes you here is a recipe for pumpkin soup with a Thai twist (no, it doesn’t have other vegetables in it pfffffft)
So that’s my bugbear. I am most definitely a pumpkin soup snob.
Until next time. Happy cooking 🙂