Delicious Vegetable Soup

(I definitely didn't make this)

Returning home for a long, hard day at the office, much like Mother Hubbard, I discovered that my cupboards were bare.  And while this is in no way unusual (well-stocked for me means bread AND milk) it did leave me in the predicament of what feast to conjure up for my dinner.

Usually I'd take a trip down to the local 7-11 (I think this might be an American thing but it's always open when I go to work and open when I get the last tube; but closed when I venture into night bus territory so...) and get myself a dreamy tinned feast, Stagg Vegetarian Chilli is my current fave.  But alas, it's the day before payday and my purse is as empty as my cupboard.

(this isn't the mix I used,  I just liked the word melange)

In a flash I recalled a bag of frozen mixed veg that I once bought at 3 o'clock in the morning but never quite got around to eating. Hurrah!  Even for me this constitutes a bland meal so I decided to have a rummage around in my ex-flatmate's cupboards (the pyscho was unceremoniously slung out a couple of month's ago) and discovered some gravy, yesss.  As you may recall from my previous post, frozen veg and gravy constitutes fine dining in my household.  But lo' the gravy is out of date... by 2 years.  Thinking on my feet I spotted a couple of oxo cubes, could it be... the packet shows a simple recipe for vegetable soup = SUCCESS.

Delicious Vegetable Soup

What you will need:

Mixed frozen vegetables

2 vegetable oxo cubes

Recipe:

1. Boil kettle

2. Pour water into a saucepan

3. Put frozen veg in saucepan

4. Tip some of the water out because you used too much

5. Crumble one oxo cube into saucepan

6. Wash hands

7. Crumble up other oxo cube into saucepan

8. Watch for a bit

9.  Put into a bowl

10.  Eat quickly (it tastes of nothing but you don't notice as much when it's really hot)

And voila! A feast fit for a dog.

Too many cooks

I'm surrounded by cooks.  

They're everywhere.  Perhaps you get to a certain stage in life where people have started to grow up and settle down and in the process have learnt to cook and eat well  My friend Rick is great, my sister is great (was awful, now great - see link), my Mum is obviously great but I'm terrible, really, really awful.  The major difference with me and my sister is ("are you two sisters? you have the same face") I don't really care.  I'm not trying to get better.  I mean,  I wouldn't know where to start, but I'm not.  I'm just going to cook the things that occur to me and then take a picture for you to judge me and feel better about yourselves and how advanced in life you are.

Today for dinner I had quite the feast,  a delicious concoction of frozen peas, sainsbury's pre-chopped broccoli and cauliflower, a mug full of gravy and a generous helping of vinegar.  It was great.  Look here's a picture...

You may notice that the table underneath isn't a dining table but a bedside table this is because I have a pyscho flatmate who is trying to kill me so when home I generally try to avoid the communal areas.  

Recipe:

1. Boil kettle.

2. Put boiled water into saucepan.

3. Add broccoli and cauliflower to pan.

4. Add peas to pan.

5. Wait until peas float or aren't frozen when you scoop them out of boiling water with your fingers.

6. Take mug

7. Put bisto gravy granuals in mug.

8. Pour water from peas onto gravy granuals.

9. Stir in mug with a fork.

10. Pour all of the above into a bowl and eat.

Oh also, while I'm on the subject of the homicidal flatmate, she's really messy and gross, say what you like about my culinary skills but I'm nothing if not clean and tidy.  Maybe next time I'll take a picture of the kitchen, it's currently even more delightful than my frozen pea feast was.  So if my dinner didn't whet your appetite perhaps her two day old bowl of microwaved beans will.