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Hmm…something to do this weekend…

Link 1 : Tips on removing tomato skin

Link 2 : Making the tasty sauce.

Yeah, it’s been busy as I tried making carrot soup from scratch since I couldn’t find a pumpkin to make pumpkin soup instead. Now I understand why these soups are so hard to make fresh i.e. not using ingredients from the can.

I took the recipe from a book titled “Just 5 Things” from a Singapore Publishing Company named Page One. I modified the recipe abit :

2 Mandarin Oranges
1/2 kilo of Carrots (grated)
1 large onion (sliced)
Few stalks of fresh coriader
Some Thyme & Oregano (a wee bit)
1 teaspoon of Curry Powder
1/2 teaspon of vegetable stock (postnote : probably added in too much)

First the oranges. I should just have juiced them next time rather than try to peel the skin off. The thing about Mandarin Oranges is that there’s so much fibre in them, unlike Clementines or Satsumas. Anyway, I removed most of the segment skins and seeds and blended the sacs together. Then poured it together with the grated carrots and onions and the rest of the ingredients and boiled them for awhile until they soften. Then blended everything together and reboiled. I’m amazed that there was literally complete 4 servings as mentioned in the book.

Now the curry powder, because I forgot to ask Granny where she put her Chicken Curry Mix, I used her Fish Curry spices instead. Oh well. Still though, the hint of curry is just nice but it would have been better with pumpkin soup.

Now this is really the lazy men fare. Fettucine tuna but I got very lazy because the carrot grating just irritated me to bits.

1 large tomato
1 can of “No Salt” Tuna by Ayam Brand
1 medium onion
Oregano
Olive Oil
Boiled Fettucine
1 tsp of capers (rinsed to removed the salt in them)

Lightly fried the onion in olive until soft. Then added in the chopped tomato as well as the tuna and oregano. Then because it didn’t seem that tasty, I added in some rinsed capers. >.> Ok, the capers were salty so I guess the label was misleading.

1/2 kilo of carrots grated. HALF KILO!!!

I now have more respect towards those chefs in the kitchen who has to do so much grating and cutting just to do a blended/cream type of soup.

At the moment, the soup is being cooled down so that I can zap it into the blender and see how it taste like in the end. Keeping my fingers crossed that it turns out alrite >.>

Oh, and surprisingly, it came out pretty sweet considering that I haven’t added any sugar inside. I did juice up 2 Mandarin Oranges so it could be coming from that too.

Well, let’s just say that I got a big wakeup call to life. So, time to make lunches again. And hunting around for interesting recipes for lunch sure isn’t that easy. Especially when one is looking for salt content in food. That’s when one realises that the Malaysian Food Companies exclude them out most of the time. Only the imported goods from USA have them. Oh well.

Will have to do more planning for this endeavour. Biggest one yet. 🙂

My cousin has passed on in life. He will be greatly missed.

My late cousin has moved on. He will be miss greatly.