Teale and I whipped up a delicious soup last week. Soups are one of my favourite ways to quickly make a few meals and get lots of veggies at the same time, which we’ve seen can be very cost-effective when you buy them locally! This week’s soup had some carrots, onions, potatoes, all from the market square, as well as delicious jerusalem artichokes, gifted to me by my co-worker Mary. I’d never had jerusalem artichokes before, which look a bit like a knarled potato but have a distinct artichoke flavour. It’s a key winter-time seasonal vegetable, so it’s good to know how to recognise and prepare them (even if this time it was just to throw them in the soup!). We used a couple non-local ingredients too, some vegetable soup stock cubes, and some pasta noodles, and seasoned the soup with salt, pepper and herbs, including our own rosemary. On the whole, a very cheap and mostly local dish, and very tasty too!
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