{"id":92,"date":"2009-11-23T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/2009\/11\/23\/broth-for-a-rainy-day"},"modified":"2009-11-23T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T17:19:00","slug":"broth-for-a-rainy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/2009\/11\/23\/broth-for-a-rainy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Broth for a rainy day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/getattachment-aspx.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/getattachment-aspx.jpeg?w=300\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI once made this soup for my grandmother when she was poorly, devoted grandson that I am. A couple of hours later a fax arrived with a handwritten note from Grannie.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Dear Jammy,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for the soup. It cheered me up. Just a few criticisms:<\/p>\n<p>The bits of cabbage and bacon are rather large and difficult to eat, and so as a soup it requires a knife, fork, and spoon to eat it. Perhaps next time you could chop the bits up a little smaller.<\/p>\n<p>Your grandfather says it was too salty.<\/p>\n<p>G<\/p>\n<p>Now there&#8217;s gratitude. I&#8217;m sure Grannie was right, yet part of this soup&#8217;s charm is its very ruggedness &#8211; it&#8217;s big and brutish and slurpy and utterly warming; ideal for this bout of miserable weather. It is also very much a blank canvas of a soup. You could tinker around with it until the cows come home, adding fennel seed and sausage, pasta and Parmesan &#8211; even some mushrooms. It&#8217;s a t&#8217;riffic <a href=\"http:\/\/thelarderlout.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/fridge-slut.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/thelarderlout.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/fridge-slut.html', 'fridge slut.');\">fridge slut.<\/a> This is just how I happened to do it today.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/this-weeks-playlist\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to hear my rainy day soup making playlist.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Bacon and Cabbage Broth<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Serves 6<\/p>\n<p>150g smoked lardons, or 8 rashers of streaky smoked bacon sliced<br \/>\n2 onions, peeled and sliced<br \/>\n1 clove garlic, peeled and sliced<br \/>\n2 large spuds, cut into large dice<br \/>\n150g cherry tomatoes<br \/>\na savoy cabbage, sliced<br \/>\n1 sprig rosemary<br \/>\nparsley stalks<br \/>\n2 bay leaves<br \/>\n1 1\/2 litres chicken stock<br \/>\nOil, salt, pepper<\/p>\n<p>Heat a little oil in a large saucepan and fry the bacon until crispy. Add the onion, garlic and spuds, along with the herbs. Season with salt and pepper, cover with a lid and cook over a low heat for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.<\/p>\n<p>Add the tomatoes, cabbage, and stock. Bring to a boil and simmer for 15 minutes, until the potatoes are soft.<\/p>\n<p>Serve as you like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once made this soup for my grandmother when she was poorly, devoted grandson that I am. A couple of hours later a fax arrived with a handwritten note from Grannie. Dear Jammy, Thank you for the soup. It cheered me up. Just a few criticisms: The bits of cabbage and bacon are rather large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[646,792],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","tag-rainy-day-soup","tag-thelarderlout"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zdji-1u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}