Tomato and Ginger Soup
Song recommendations:
Burn - Jorja Smith
Pelota - Khruangbin
Ingredients:
2 garlic cloves
6-8 salad tomatoes
1 tbsp olive oil
15 g fresh ginger
750-1 L water
1 vegetable stock cube
Pinch of salt
Recipe:
Wash and chop the tomatoes into quarters.
Combine in a pan with the water and pinch of salt. The amount you use will determine your soup consistency, as there are no potatoes to thicken the soup here. Less water: thicker. More water: runnier. Just make sure you always start with just enough water to cook the tomatoes in - you can add more later if necessary.
Simmer the tomatoes with the stock cube until soft. This should take about 10 minutes. Turn the heat off once cooked.
Peel the garlic and add the cloves. Peel and mince the ginger straight into the soup. You can also add the little stringy bits left in the mincer - they just blend.
Blend thoroughly with the remaining ingredients (olive oil and any extra water or ginger you might want). Serve with fresh bread!
A Bite Out of Life
Everyone, meet Lucy - my wonderful friend from Uni who I became friends with after meeting on a surf trip. Lucy loves yoga (@yogah_healers on Instagram), she sees the world through a lens of complete gratitude and lovessss food, all things I really admire in her. Throughout uni she was always there ready to eat, pretty much at any given moment, and we’ve shared some amazing meals in our time but this is very near the top spot, if not right at the top. Pictured is my pre-ski-trip-30-hour-bus-drive: wafflessss! I had only ever had waffles once before this day (no hate) as pancakes are my all-time favourite, but these were absolutely phenomenal. Lucy had a Banoffee waffle (banana, toffee sauce and whipped cream) and I had a Brownie Blue (brownie pieces, blueberries, mocha icing, toffee sauce and whipped cream). I’m sure you can deduce which one of us has the sweetest tooth… Did anyone else also not realise that pancake batter and waffle batter are not the same…? It’s probably for the best that I don’t own a waffle machine… What’s the best waffle topping you’ve ever had?
(These incredible creations can be found down at Brynmill Coffee House in Swansea, for anyone living there now!)
enjoy food, enjoy life.
