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Make your own mushroom potato soup that is good enough to eat anytime!
Ingredients
1 cup dried mushrooms
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 pound fresh shitake mushrooms, stemmed and chopped
2 medium carrots, sliced
1 onion, diced
3 potatoes, peeled and diced
Salt and pepper to taste
1 bayleaf
Soak the dried mushrooms in 3 cups of very hot water.
Put the olive oil in a medium saucepan and turn the heat to medium-high. Add the shitakes, carrots and onion, and cook, until they begin to brown. About ten minutes. Add the potatoes and continue to cook, stirring, until …
Making pasta is so so simple and is quick to do. Again, with everything on this site, you get to control what goes in to what you eat when you make your own pasta! With this quick article you should be able to make your own pasta in no time at all!
Stuff that you will need:
(for about 4 servings of pasta)
400g (14oz) flour. (At the moment we plain flour, but we have seen some pasta flours and duram flours out there so try a few and choose your weapon!)
4 medium …
Fancy some home-made cider to go with that lazy summer’s afternoon?
The process of making cider is simple, but can be time consuming. You definitely won’t be sitting down to drink your cider in 20 minutes, so be patient and appreciate your cider fully after waiting a few months.
For this, you will need some apples (as you probably guessed), a press, hydrometer a clean bucket, some demijohns, Campden tablets and possibly some yeast (apple yeast works best).
The first step is to choose your apples, sort them, and wash them.
Technically you …
Why buy a jar of pasta sauce when you can make your own and control what goes into it! Now that you can make your own pasta, make your own sauce too!
At its most basic, a pasta sauce will contain garlic, onions and chopped tomatoes.
From there you can add your own selection of herbs and vegetables.
To make the beginnings of a pasta sauce, simply heat some olive oil (viva Italia!) in a saucepan.
Peel and finely chop both the garlic and the onion and add them to the …
