In the Kitchen: Chatting & Cooking (+ what's in your freezer?)
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- Опубликовано: 23 дек 2024
- I'm trying a new recipe today and chatting as I chop and cook. Come and hang out with me in the kitchen for a while and let's make a winter root soup to warm us on these damp, grey days. At less than 50p a portion I'll certainly be making it again. Oh, and, as requested.....a snoop inside my last remaining freezer.....
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Great looking soup, Vivi. For a cold day main course, I might bulk it up with a handful of white beans and chopped greens. I’m learning to be much braver and creative with my soups thanks to your cooking vids.❤️
Aww, that's great. Thank you. 😊
Thank you Vivi I love making soups so I have ordered a second hand soup book and am looking forward to some heart warming recipes have a great week .x
Enjoy experimenting. 😊
Looks delicious! Absolutely love swede. I always buy parsnips, swede, cabbages, carrots etc in bulk when the supermarkets sells them at 15p/19p both at Christmas and Easter, prep and freeze. Lasts me for the whole year at a fraction of the normal costs. Great video Vivi x
Fantastic....I'll be doing the same once I've moved and got a new freezer set up. 😊
Great idea, for when Vivi is settled in her new place!
My grandmother always made this soup. For the children she left it sweet and for the adults she added a little mustard to the butter. She also occasionally made a kind of curry soup from it. Simply heat a little curry powder in it when you melt the butter. Very tasty. Or as we say here in the Netherlands "Lekker"
Yum! I often add curry to parsnip soup.....and, yes, think it would work beautifully in this one too. 😊
Those veggie peelings would go in my stock pot. After the stock is finished and cooled, I put it in containers and freeze for future use
Vegan nut cream using cashews is what I make and use in lieu of cream. It's easy to make and gives a creamy consistency to sweet or savoury dishes. Because your making soup you could put some raw cashews straight into the soup.
Ooh, perfect! Cashews are amazing little things 😍
Hiya Vivi Thankyou for Kitchen Chat. Take care Luv Southern Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🐝
You sound much better. Makes me glad. Lovely soup at a great price!
Thank you lovely....this was actually filmed two and a half weeks ago before I got really poorly.
I wouldn’t have thought of making such a soup myself so thank you for this recommendation.
Hi Vivi, as a farmer's wife my kids will tell you how scunnert they got of turnips this time of year for their tea! My hubby grew them to feed livestock so of course they ended up on their tea plates. What you refer to as a swede, the orange one is whats known as a neep, turnip or tumshie in my neck of the woods. Husband would sometimes grow white neeps. They could grow to some size. And of course at Halloween we made turnip lanterns. My granny used to add neep to the veggie broth she would make using her own stock from the well scrubbed peelings. The only slight downside is the neep in soup can go off very quickly but back in the 60s/70s no freezer 😂 I still make a lot of soup not always with fresh veg. Pre frozen bags of veg make good soups too 😅
Sitting watching you as I sew 😊
Yay for a sewing session while hanging out with me.....what are you making? 😊
@@WhatVivididnext Sewing up 6 wee cardigans I've knitted for first grandchild due in January. Using my mum's patterns, ones she knitted for me, my siblings and my kids 😄 I made a huge pot of brocoli this morning. To make it creamy I've added some cream cheese. Already had a wee taste. I love curried parsnip soup. Your soup looks lush 😋 Fiona ❤
@@Milliesmushroom Awwww, what a wonderful thing to be sewing....and using the old pattern.....I LOVE that. X
Pleased you enjoyed the soup.Surprised you have never grown swede or turnip and funny how i had never missed them in your garden - love them both. I have that book, must dig it out!
It's such a good book. I think I might have had a go at growing them if I'd had a much bigger plot..... 😊
Thank you for bringing us along the soup looks amazing. Hope you are feeling better.
Thank you......still feel pretty rotten b8ut much improved since 9 days ago.... 😊
Looks delicious, Vivi! I first tried turnips years ago when I made a turnip soup for my class of 5-year-olds to try after I'd read them The Enormous Turnip. They loved both, and I was pleasantly surprised at how yummy a turnip could be!
Awwww, love that! I was just thinking of a book I remember from when I was 5 or 6.....'Turnip Tom and Big Fat Rosie' 😁
wash your veggie scraps and make Veggie Broth .... Glad to see you are feeling so much better!!!
This vid was recorded prior to ViVi got sick I believe. Yeah, hope she feel better for the next one
We love swede mash with black pepper and butter. Just a big one in the slow cooker in the morning with a bit of water and then when it's all lovely and soft scoop it out of its peeling mash it with but if butter and pepper.
Yum! 😊
Soup looks yummy. I've tried that stock and I find it too sweet if you're using parsnip or carrots.
Going to make soup tomorrow to use up my veg before I go shopping
Like you, amazed by cost of turnip. I have larger shops near me and they have lots of varieties of fancy fruit from abroad, and no local veg like turnip 😮
It's bonkers isn't it.....they are in season so should be plentiful....and reasonably priced.
I hope the antibiotics are pulling their weight and you are feeling much better now💐
I love making soup but the ingredients are so expensive here. Parsnips are a luxury unless they are on special, as are a lot of vegetables. I'm tempted to cost out the ingredients for your soup though as it looks delicious. I can't have dairy but I sub coconut milk or cream and it never adversely affects the flavour.
Mmmm, coconut milk is always a lovely addition for a luxe soup. 😊
I bung the peelings..including onion skins in the freezer then make my own vege stock. Strain and freeze it. Much less salt.
I really struggle preparing swede, I always feel like I’m fighting with it! Your knife looked a lot sharper than mine. I always get the biggest one I can and chunk it up to stick in the freezer, love it when it’s a day I can just use the prepared frozen swede 😄.
Hope your medication is kicking in nicely and you are starting to feel better 💕😘
The meds are working a treat! I still feel wiped out but the coughing at night has abated massively. 😊
I sometimes use radish instead of turnip if haven't got one.
Tip for cutting hard veg like swead is to hold knife still and rock the veg for some reason it does work
Hi vivi That soup really looked nice!im going to have a go at it! Now with the colder days coming going to be delicious. Hope your feeling better love marilyn x
Lovely being with you in the kitchen again Vivi and I hope you’re feeling so much better by now. I was tying up my tomatoes yesterday and thought of you 😁 Everything’s still crossed for a smooth transition to your new home and garden 🤞😊
Oooooooh, how utterly lovely to be having tomato time.....wish I could join you!
Hope your feeling better, you certainly look better than the last video. Take care of yourself.
Thank you....this was actually filmed two and a half weeks ago before I got really poorly.
Nice to see you the soup looks lovely and tasty and will warm up the cost of soup it's good and reaable
Cheers lovely.
Thank you for sharing! I’ve only eaten turnips raw with salt like radishes.
The soup looks delicious! Take care Vivi.
Turnip and swede are both delicious. Thanks Vivi. Will make this at the weekend. X
Hi ViVi .Love Soup. Parsnips r so good
Rutabaga is great to combanation in soup uum..Take care b safe glad ur feeling better.., Being sick SUCKS..😢
That's very similar to a soup I make minus the turnip, I buy a stew pack from my supermarket and chop it all up and add stock it's delicious, yours looks yummy. Think I'll have to go make some x
Happy you are feeling better !
Ooow-/that soup combo sounds good. Naturally sweet taste from those veg. Nice and creamy from their starches. Yum .
Thanks for yet another Vivi creative soup recipe!
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Cheers lovely! 😊
In my fall-winter garden I have a 75-foot row of purple top turnips. Here in the deep coastal south, it is all about eating the turnip greens, the roots are a secondary item.
Maybe add some seeds or nuts to the top or some small bits of homemade croutons with garlic to balance the sweet. Was thinking a single potato could add to the creamy but wouldn’t cut the sweet. Ginger maybe good in it like the carrot ginger soup. Also coconut milk rather than double cream when affordable. I imagine the nutmeg in the recipe may balance the sweet also. Another one I’ve enjoyed adding to things is a little mustard as a flavor profile that balances creamy. You did well with this one. I’d never have thought to combine and even buy turnip etc for soup.
👍♥️🙏 love soups and stews! I wonder if Swede are the same as our
Rutabaga?¿
Yes, they are. 😊
This looks delicious, hope you are continuing to be on the mend and treating yourself very gently x
I'm still going very slowly! 😉
What southerners call turnips remind me more of some kind of giant radish plus they're tender plants whereas swede/turnip isn't eaten up here until the first frost has got at it preferably and stays in the ground all winter.
Hahaha....whatever they're called they're a bit on the pricey side. 😉
Hi Vivi you can just put a full uncut Swede straight into the microwave stand it on one of the flat ends and put it on full power for about 10 minutes when it is ready it will hiss or sing they call this method the singing Swede method when it does that use a oven glove or tea towel to pick it up and take out of the microwave and let it stand for about 3 to 4 minutes then slice off the top and you will find the inside is cooked soft and smooth like a mashed potato also have you not tried cooking carrots and swede together and then mashing them when cooked with a little butter and pepper this is a lovely side veg or even an alternative for mash potato xxx Elaine
I don't tend to eat veg as a side dish......I usually cook them up into something.....like a curry, or stew etc. 😊
You could add some lemon juice to brighten it up. Persians use turnips as a remedy for colds.
Soup sounds great. I've got some turnips on the go and swede is an absolute favourite- swede risotto is fab, especially with rocket, but lots of black pepper...yum! I went right off Parsnips last year after growing absolute monsters without trying- I used them as xmas table decorations- with lights and a star on top! 😂 I ate too many and got absolutely sick of them! I was taught to 'sweat' the veg for soups, by doing exactly as you have- putting all the veg in, on low. The veg gives out some of their liquid and therefore flavour. What difference it makes, is probably debatable though, but it is a quicker method, than cooking onion etc first. Chuck it in, sweat, stock, blend. Deeelish! Hope you are feeling better.
Ooooh, I really like the idea of the swede risotto. Cheers lovely. 😊
I have been making my family recipe for lentil soup forever and its almost identical to what you have made, with the exception of no turnip, the addition of a teacup(ish) of split red lentils and most importantly a heaped teaspoon of mild curry powder. The sweetness lends itself beautifully to the mild curry flavour. I use ham stock cubes rather than veggie but I do sweat the chopped veggies for ten mins or so in vegetable oil and the lentils add so much body and protein, giving it main meal vibes!
Mmm, lovely. 😊
💖💖💖 Just few days ago made potato and leek soup for the first time. Simple yet so tasty.
Mmmmmm.....one of my favourites! 😊
Nice to see you up and about and smiling ….hopefully a relapse is not in your future…..soup is lovely
Thank you....this was actually filmed two and a half weeks ago before I got really poorly.
@@WhatVivididnext ugggh!
Turnips and Swedes are easy like beets. I also really like the smaller white turnips from Japan. Love those raw with a sprinkle of sal!
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Going to have to try this one, sounds lovely, may have to add the blue cheese😂. I love blue cheese on pear and parsnip soup xx
Ooh, yes! 😊
We love chickpea chili and lime soup it's so easy. Tin of chickpeas ,one onion a stock cube ,juice of lime and a few chili flakes.
Yum. 😊
Can recommend herbs added and a swirl of Greek yogurt on the top to be really wild🙃also that particular brand of stock makes a delicious hot drink on its own esp when not feeling like much😵💫😵💫
I bought some turnips the other day to make in a pot roast. I still have two left. I did notice they had rutabegas and parsnips at the same store so I may go back for them and make up some soup. The turnips were expensive here too. Thanks for the videos. They give me ideas of how to use vegetables I don't normally cook with or use in different ways. I'm growing kohlrabi for the first time this year, so I'm going to have to find some recipes for them too, since I've never cooked with them before.
Yay, good luck with the kohlrabis.....and have fun experimenting. 😊
Khorabi is so versatile. Grate on salad chop add to soups and stews. Chunk and roast. Peel eat like apple. Yum
A good way to make a soup creamy cheaply and without cream is to add a spoonful of flour after sweating off the veg to make a roux, then adding the stock. That is how the tinned 'cream of..' soups are made.
Also turnips are horrible little things not worth that price, there is a reason they are mostly used for animal feed nowadays 😂 But I do enjoy swede, especially with carrot as a mash on the side of a meal.
I really liked the turnip. 😉
with not being on the gas line we have to also include the price of electricity when budgeting nowadays so, for instance tinned carrots make more sense as fresh carrots take so long to cook on electricity-the root veg we would have roasted in the air fryer with some oil pepper and paprika, as again that is cheaper than using the rings because its far quicker(@ 10-15mins)
your soup looks good yum
Turnips are quite easy to grow, swedes - I never succeeded. I think the worst problem with them is that when they should be germinating, the temperatures are already very high and I struggle to keep my seedlings alive. And if they survive the heat, being small on the bed, they are defenceless against the slugs. So I actually never had any swede. Turnips - I love, especially fried briefly on a bit of butter. I think however the sweetness in your soup was mostly from carrots, don't you think? Oh I would put carrots in just anything :-) And as for the veg peelings: I used to make stock with them. I hope you do have a garden soon, maybe you would fancy growing turnips :-) Best wishes!
If you like this soup, Vivi may I reccomend Hugh Fernly Whittingstall's (?spelling? Appologies.) 5 root soup? Really tasty and not expensive.
Lovely soup
There soups are Lovely ❤❤
I hope you are feeling better today. My mum taught me to peel the lighter rind off of the swede, as that part is bitter, if left on. I think the little turnips should be fine, as the outer layer is very thin. It is great to experiment with new veg. This year I tried globe artichokes and patty pans for the first time ever.
Ooooh, yummy artichokes....but a lot of work to get to the 'heart', the good bit. Did you enjoy them? 😊
I’ve never eaten Swede with the skins. To us it’s a Rutabaga. My brother makes the absolute best rutabaga. We just cut it in chunks, add butter and water, a tad of sugar, and boil till tender. Oh my, I love rutabagas.
Hi Vivi x I buy this brand of soup and you are making it for half the cost of a supermarket purchase 🎉
Yay! 😊
Glad to see this video, my shop bought turnips are waiting patiently in the fridge for inspiration to strike. The Internet says if I cook them wrong they will be bitter, thanks for the extra stress Internet. Re: your older recipe videos, do you have editing software such that you could re-release a collection of them at a time for newer subscribers? Seems a brilliant way to generate content and educate folks without creating new footage. I always think of turnips as 'hard times' food, strange that now it is a more expensive ingredient. Thank you for sharing your soup experience with us, Vivi. Glad to read that you are on the mend.
Cheers lovely. 😊
My family usually eat the turnip raw. It’s really good that way too but the soup really sounds good.
Blue cheese with finely shredded sorrel is divine in this soup!!
I realize the turnip is pricy for you, but it helps cut the sweetness of the rutabaga.
Also to get a creamy feel without the dairy you could use 4/5 / tests of oat flakes cooked in with the veggies. When blended it's lovely and creamy feeling and helps to meld the various textures of the different roots.
Hope you enjoy every spoonful!
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I loved it and have been enjoying it these last few days when I haven't had the energy to cook each day. 😊
I grew up eating turnips with skin. I think we usually peeled Swede/ rutabaga. It largely depends on the size and age of the produce and thickness of the skin. Both are in the mustard/ brassica family so that explains the smell.
I was astonished at the price of the turnip! I would have expected them to be the same price as the parsnip.
But, like you say, good to try new recipes to see if they might become a staple going forward. And it was still super-cheap overall.
I loved the soup so for me it was definitely worth the cost of the turnip.
Vivi, when you priced out the ingredients ( prior to dicing up your items), did you use the entire turnip in the pricing? You only used 1/2 so wouldn’t that lower your costs? I am curious about your reader’s suggestion of adding the oats for bulking it up. Have you tried that before?
I haven't ever used oats for bulking up a soup but my grandma did from time to time. 😊
Turnips are very easy to grow. You could grow your own once you get situated in your new home. The seeds in the USA are very inexpensive.
Are you feeling any better? Are the antibiotics working! 😊
Yes.....the cough isn't nearly so bad at night now and the wheezing is much quieter! 😉
Moving in the right direction, sounds like. Very relieved tp hesr this @WhatVivididnext
that looked very tasty and creamy 😀i make my own vegetable soup....thats tasty and a nice chunky soup with 7 vegetables in it 😀🥣
Ooooh, yum!
I’m interested to know Vivi have you perhaps found it more sweet since giving up sugar a few months ago. I did this a few years ago (and failed) but I remember things tasting more sweet.
Know this is an old video so Hope you’re on the mend 😊
Thank you lovely...yes, on the mend but going super slowly! 😉 I think this soup would have tasted sweet to me even a couple of months ago (I've never had a lot of sugar in my diet even before deciding to cut it out)....not at all unpleasant...just a surprise. I will definitely be making it regularly now as it is....and sometimes with some curry spices added...
I wonder if mindful eaters, which Vivi seems to be, are perhaps more aware of subtle flavours?
I'd love to be a mindful eater instead of gobbling stuff down super-quick! I've started putting down my cutlery, or just pausing, for 60 seconds to try to slow myself down. A work in progress for sure, especially with favourite foods like toast and biscuits!
That’s good to hear Vivi. Yes good idea Jane 😊
I wonder which veg made it sweet. ❤
I think a combination of all of them. 😊
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Hope you’re doing better than I today!
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Ugh, such terrible news! My heart breaks for you all. 😢
I would love to eat like you. I really do not enjoy meat.
I remember a flatmate cooking a swede and turnip?? stew back in the 80s and part of the recipe was a glug of cider. Just a thought. 🍏🍏🍏
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You may find it easier if you label and date your leftovers the you know for sure what you are getting out! ❤
Haha I was gonna say that. All my boxes in the freezer have all kinds of nonsense labels on them scribbled out with new contents and again and again.
Nice soup
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Only you would compare a turnip to a tennis ball!!! 😅❤😂
Hahahahaha. Absolutely. 😉
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The soup looks delicious, I will have to try. Glad you are feeling a little better. X
Oi, no, share some with me, you monkey 😂😂😂😂
I could smell that parsnip from here 😂😂😂.
That soup looked beautiful, and I think I will be giving that a go.
Thanks for having dinner with me. I've just eaten the last homemade batch of chicken curry. 😢 but I have a veggie one left 😊.
It's good to see you looking better and smiling again. ❤❤❤😊
Hugs from Leicester xxx
Thank you lovely.
Turnip smells like celeriac??
Are you still moving ❤
Yes.
Vivi talks about this ALL the time! Not sure how anyone has missed this?! 🤔
I'm going to give that soup a try, too. I wonder what could make it less sweet. What could be added?
I hope you're on the mend and that the stress of purchasing and selling is behind you shortly.
Thank you lovely. I'm definitely going to be making this soup often now - it's gorgeous.....but I may try adding some curry spices to a batch at some point. Have fun experimenting. 😊
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Thanks Vivi. Your soup looks delicious. ❤
It was/is! The perfect soup when under the weather. 😊
50 p is not sxpensive. Looks yummy, Vivi. It's great to hear you are getting better
Shall I compare thee to a tennis ball?!?
Scared for your safety when you were chopping the swede! After I sliced through a fingernail while chopping onion (blood everywhere!), I started wearing special gloves that protect your hands.
I know you're super-skilled and experienced in the kitchen though ❤
Aww, thanks lovely.
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