A classic French soup … delicious if carefully made.
Tag: vegetarian
La soupe de Myriam
Here is a quick-to-make soup which sounds implausible but is actually very nice. It can be eaten hot, warm or cold. As a variation, you could use Boursin or similar instead of vache-qui-rit.
Gazpacho Express
A summer recipe par excellence, and very quick to prepare. You might need to adjust quantities, according to taste and the size of the tomatoes.
Chunky leek and potato soup
Courtesy of Nick Nairn via ChasingDaisy.com. A simple and delicious soup that makes a light meal with bread and some cheese.
Tomates à la crème
From Edouard de Pomiane via Elizabeth David, who says it ‘makes tomatoes taste startlingly unlike any other dish of cooked tomatoes’.
We had it as a starter but we reckoned it would be fab with some nice fillet steak – or with roast/grilled lamb.
Pa amb tomaquet, or pan con tomate
The Catalan national dish — “bread and tomatoes”, which I admit doesn’t sound very exciting. But with ripe tomatoes and good olive oil, it is delicious. A simple starter; or, in Catalonia, a breakfast dish.
Escalivade
A simple and very delicious Catalan recipe, with almost the same ingredients as ratatouille, but a very different result.
Asparagus gratin
Sounds fairly ordinary, but the unctuous sauce makes it special. An excellent way of stretching a little asparagus to serve a lot of people.