It having been roast chicken yesterday, it was chicken soup for lunch today. But neither the play by Arnold Wesker nor the complicated looking dishes turned up by Bing. The work of people like the BBC and Martha Stewart - this last being the famous cooking buff who went to prison for tax evasion or something of the sort. Nor even the humble pearl barley of which I make quite a lot of use.
Boil up the carcass with some stock and fat from the roast, some left over carrots and some fresh onions. Chopped in half but not peeled. Maybe four hours of this.
Strain and make up to getting on for three litres. Add four ounces of red lentils. Bring back to the boil and simmer for an hour and a half.
About half an hour before the off, start frying some rashers of thick cut streaky bacon (from the butcher at Manor Green Road rather than Sainsbury's where, inter alia, they are the champions of thin cut) and some more onions.
Ten minutes before the off add maybe a litre of left over boiled brown rice.
Five minutes before the off add mabe a pint of left over boiled crinkly cabbage.
Finally, add the bacon and onion. Decided, on this occasion, against mushrooms. Stir it all up and serve with a little hard brown bread.
I suppose we did something over half in the first sitting. The lentils seemed to have vanished.
Reference 1: http://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.com/2010/01/five-thing-soup.html. All we have in these pages on Wesker. An author whom I think my mother rated.
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