Been busy in the kitchen today making beetroot,garlic, ginger and sweet potato soup. It’s so hot with garlicky yummyness. We have a weekly shop from Asda and I wanted to use up a few veggies, especially the large beetroot taking up all the room in the salad drawer!!!
It turned out amazing, I make my soups from just veggies, beetroot, carrot, sweet potato, broccoli stem, onion, 6 cloves garlic, courgette. I then add a flat dessert spoon of miso instead of stock and 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast, simmer til veggies are soft and liquidise.Yum!
I also made elderberry cordial from the lush elderberry trees nearby. We picked them yesterday and it took 2 hours to pick them off the stem, mainly using a fork.
Today I put them in a pan with water to cover and boiled them for 20 minutes, it is important to not drink elderberry raw as it contains cyanide. Cooking gets rid of this.
I strained the berries and added 1lb sugar to each pint of liquid and 12 cloves per pint. The recipe was from Eat weeds
Simmer again for 10 minutes and strain out the cloves.
Bottle adding cloves back in if you are keeping the drink for any length of time. I’m not a fan of cloves and it will all be gone by next week so skipped this step,
