Thread: Covid Broth - 10 litres - Serves 15

Clearing out the larder of zombie apocalypse covid reserves...

This week: 2 year old bag of McKenzies Soup Mix of legumes and grains

Soak overnight, rinse and bring to boil in 10 litres of water

Add chopped carrots and onions

Add chopped potatoes

Add a few spoons of stock to taste

Thicken with some flower

Add herbs and some mustard and black pepper

Simmer for half an hour

Bobs yer aunties fanny for 2 weeks worth of dinner for about 20 minutes work

Very tasty in this damp and cool spring

Nice touch a can of Vegeta bat essence for that real "rona" savour.

Khvn Looper you are a gourmet and a flash photographer sans pareil.

Just add a "pollit " starter and you could open an Asian buffet

Model car collection is swelling along nicely also.

Still using the toilet paper hoarded by management ...

Solid Bogon Soup Score of 8.75/10

Lost 0.5 of a point due to lazy buttering skills.

Very nice, loops. Add a touch of green (parsley, cilantro or spring onion) to the soup and it might convince me to be your new Ms. Luzon. Heh.

Nice. I reckon I would have added some meat offcuts- pork fat, chicken skin & parsons nose just to add some of animalistic oomph to the pot.

Originally Posted by sabang

some meat offcuts

To be fair he was using up surplus stores so was Lentilly handicapped

Originally Posted by Bogon

Lost 0.5 of a point due to lazy buttering skills.

It needs a more rustic crusty loaf rather than generic square sliced for the photo op.

The butter reminded me that I forgot to mention I added a big splash of olive oil to give it some mouthfeel.

Originally Posted by katie23

Very nice, loops. Add a touch of green (parsley, cilantro or spring onion) to the soup and it might convince me to be your new Ms. Luzon. Heh.

I think of Miss Lusty Luzon often. She got me my first crucifix in 30 years when she witchcrafted the Jaag. I still feel bad about her discovery of Miss Mindanao's panty liners in the bathroom bucket in February which was a rooky error on my part.

Regarding corriander, as meatloaf put it better than I could: I'll do anything for love but I won't do that.

However I agree with your womanly insight that a splash of green would go a long way in improving the presentation so I will add some spring onions to the next batch for your approval.

Originally Posted by sabang

Nice. I reckon I would have added some meat offcuts- pork fat, chicken skin & parsons nose just to add some of animalistic oomph to the pot.

Forgot to mention, I added a splash of fish sauce for a bit of meaty brothy umami which worked quite well. I do that when I make Indian curry batches too.

Originally Posted by Looper

I will add some spring onions

POI I thinke we need to know please.

Do you serve the soup with a "Loopa Scoopa?"

Keep up the excellent gravy and remember don't spoil the brothel for a massage pottage, you young scallions, That's Shallota and good Knight.

A mess of pottage is something immediately attractive

TD is severely lacking a slow cooking thread!

Originally Posted by Joe 90

a slow cooking thread!

Butter cock,,,,

sorry utter crock

Originally Posted by david44

utter crock of shite

Fixed that for you

I shall endeavour to not produce said culinary tosh.

Apparently slow cooking is the new airfrying!

The journey is about to begin!!!!

I went to make my covid broth winter warmer for 2024 so got my ingredients

Soak the soup mix grains for 8 hours first

I found myself running out of room this time with half a bag of spuds and carrots still to go in so I had to wheel out the giant pot left behind by my absconding tenant from 2021

I ended up with 15 litres of broth in this 25 litre cauldron but it was taking forever to heat up on a single ring

So I decanted a bowls-worth for express cooking

It was so yum I forgot the money shot

I pimped this batch with pea protein. It is the only dish I have made where pea protein actually complements the flavour well.

You need browned onions and loads of garlic.

BTW that ain't a 25 litre pan, I'd put money on it.

^I did put loads of onion in. Forgot the pics. But not browned, just chucked them in chopped up. Also added garlic this time for the first time ever as a broth additive... from a jar!

What size is the pot and how much money?

You need roasted garlic.

Looks about 8 or 9 litres

^I think you are way off on that one Mike

Look at the size of the base of the pot. It is sitting centred on a large stove ring but its base encroaches on the neighbouring rings; and then it is taller than it is wide.

Roasted garlic and onion would be perfect but would constitute a breach of the minimal effort rules

^ What's the diameter of your saucepan Looper? And how deep was the broth.? Then an easy calculation to get the volume.

I've just been doing this with the daughter for her Maths exam and never realised how relevant it would become.

Originally Posted by Joe 90

TD is severely lacking a slow cooking thread!

Surely all of your threads are 'slow'... something?

Originally Posted by Looper

What size is the pot and how much money?

Ow big is your ring, with such base data we may extrapolate from the photo, the volume of a cylinder is where

h-height x
r =radius


r2pi vh cubic units.

11/7 girths will come to mind

Measure your girth/divide in half , steady multiply by 22 divide by 7 for a rough volume, so area of the disc, if your sides ,.....................slope measure half way up, always use a cold flaccid pan.

Here you go Mike

32cm diameter and 24cm height gives a volume of 20 litres

Originally Posted by Mendip

I've just been doing this with the daughter for her Maths exam and never realised how relevant it would become.

I did not measure the soup depth in the big pot so the volume of soup is more complicated

Some of it was frozen in 2 boxes measuring 23x15x6cm each

The rest was decanted to the smaller big pot to go in the fridge which has a diameter of 23cm
Rather than dip my measuring tape into the soup I had the cunning idea of subtracting the residual height of 5cm from the total height of 20cm

But for a complete and final answer and a true test of teenage trigonometry for MiniMendip we would also need to factor in the bowl I had yesty which we can approximate as a hemisphere with a diameter of 16cm...

Spoiler Answer Below

Boxes
23x15x6cm x 2 = 4.1 litres

Pot
(20-5)*((23/2)^2*pi) = 6.2 litres

Bowl
(4/3*pi*(16/2)^3) = 1 litre

Total soup volume = 11 litres + change

Senorita was not interested in my mathematical machinations but just wanted to get her peppery broth on so I obliged

She brought another barrow-load of food from the oldies kitchen. Every box plus the bag of small roast potatoes is a new arrival.

^You need to convert your clan to brothheads Lao!

I went overboard with the ground black pepper this time and it has made for a turbocharged tub o' chowder.

It is a proper winter warmer with a fiery kick in its arse.

Get your asian chilli-heads converted to the other side of the fiery flavour coin.

FF2 was on stirring duties for another attack on the monster broth batch this evening, while I was slicing and buttering this rather vivid Tiger Vienna as it was labelled. Looks more like a Giraffe Vienna to me.

The broth is so thick that it needs to be stirred or it will burn, I have found. It has ultra-high viscosity flow characteristics and would likely form a plug flow if you tried to pump it through a pipeline.

She declared it delicious but at the same time only ate 1/3 of the bowl, although she had been eating noodles all day and feeding them to the birds so I will accept her compliment at face value.

I was wondering how she would cope with being subjected to 3-4 hours of football per day but she has been a little trooper and even gets quite animated and excited during an attack on goal.

I enjoyed watching the 2010 WC in bed with a lovely local lady in Phuket and I went back there in 2018 during the Russia WC to try and relive it but was unable to recreate the magic. But FF2 has tingled my 2010 nostalgia receptors with her cosy company.

Apparently you are not supposed to wear a shirt from a shop without washing it first. This is a new rule for me but I am happy to live and learn.