{"id":1610,"date":"2010-11-16T21:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T19:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2025-07-27T21:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T18:05:13","slug":"green-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/16\/green-goodness","title":{"rendered":"Green goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What did you eat this weekend?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, all I ate was a bowl of appetizer soup&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1615\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1615\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1615\" title=\"Pea soup\" src=\"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/20101116_peasoup.jpg\" alt=\"Pea soup\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/20101116_peasoup.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/20101116_peasoup-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pea soup and a blob of wrong ingredient<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know it was filed under appetizers! I ate it with good appetite, though, and a slice of bread.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>0.7 litres of water (about 3 cups (US))<\/li>\n<li>Something to make vegetable stock out of that scant 3 cups of water. The original recipe calls for 1 portion of vegetable Fond &#8220;du Chef&#8221; from Knorr &#8212; I used that since we have those in the store but I&#8217;m sure anything to season the water would work. The product itself suggests using one portion for 0.5 dl liquid so this needed to be slightly more diluted than usual.<\/li>\n<li>600 grams of frozen peas (I bet fresh would do, but you&#8217;d have to cook for less time I think)<\/li>\n<li>2.5 decilitre of Creme fraiche (garlic and herb flavour)<\/li>\n<li>1-2 teaspoons wasabi paste<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Boil water and the vegetable stock ingredient of your choice. Add peas and cook for 5-8 minutes until soft. Pur\u00e9e with a stick mixer.<br \/>\nMix in fraiche and wasabi paste. Bring to boil and you&#8217;re done! If you&#8217;re feeling fancy, you could add croutons. I had some bread instead.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I didn&#8217;t use fraiche since I didn&#8217;t know what I was looking for. I looked for the stuff (&#8220;Creme Bonjour Cuisine&#8221;) in the cheese section because I&#8217;ve used their cream cheese in cooking before. And since I didn&#8217;t find the &#8220;Cuisine&#8221; part nor the &#8220;garlic and herb&#8221; part, I picked up a package of plain garlic cream cheese. I didn&#8217;t realise I was supposed to look in the cream\/milk section&#8230; Anyway, I&#8217;m sure there are pur\u00e9ed soup recipes with cream cheese, so I don&#8217;t think it was such a bad mistake. (Once again I reminded myself to check the unknown ingredients <em>before<\/em> heading for the store. I could live without another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/19\/what-i-learned-today\">spinach macaroni casserole fiasco<\/a>.) It didn&#8217;t ruin the soup and I&#8217;m happy with that.<\/p>\n<p>Next time &#8212; which there will be, I&#8217;m sure &#8212; I&#8217;ll use the correct ingredient. And probably add a bit more wasabi. Don&#8217;t know if the cream cheese made it milder but 2 teaspoons wasn&#8217;t strong enough in my opinion. Fresh peas are so sweet.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pirkka.fi\/ruoka\/reseptihaku\/resepti\/?id=4424&amp;rname=hernesose-wasabikeitto\">The original recipe, in Finnish<\/a>. There&#8217;s a comment, &#8220;this can&#8217;t be good.&#8221; I personally think it was&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What did you eat this weekend? Apparently, all I ate was a bowl of appetizer soup&#8230; I didn&#8217;t know it was filed under appetizers! I ate it with good appetite, though, and a slice of bread. 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