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Tenderheart Cook #26 and #27

I’m cooking my way through the Tenderheart cookbook.

Everything Bread Soup

The photo is from the second time I made this because I was absolutely starving the first time and gobbled it down before I remembered to take a photo. This is a carb fest, so we had it a few times when we were both doing big kilometres running.

The Quick Lowdown:

  • Ingredients: This contains basic ingredients that I would usually have in my fridge and pantry. We used a pumpkin-filled pasta, which gave it a lovely sweet touch.
  • Prep-work: Easy
  • Dirty dishes: Cutting board, knife, dutch oven.
  • Taste: It was tasty, and very satisfying. Great for cold weekend meals.
  • Family-friendly: Yes.
  • Regular rotation worthy: This makes a satisfying meal.
  • Full recipe here.

Grilled Eggplant and Soba Noodle Salad with nearly nuoc cham

Eagle-eyed readers will note that I didn’t use soba noodles. I just went with what was in my cupboard.

The Quick Lowdown:

  • Ingredients: This also contains basic ingredients that I would usually have in my fridge and pantry. I made this because we had some eggplant in our veggie box.
  • Prep-work: Easy
  • Dirty dishes: Cutting board, knife, saucepan, baking tray.
  • Taste: It was tasty, and very satisfying. Great for cold weekend meals.
  • Family-friendly: Maybe. It has chillis and eggplants, but it went down well at our place.
  • Regular rotation worthy: When I have eggplants in our box I’ll make this again.
  • Full recipe here.

Comments

2 responses to “Tenderheart Cook #26 and #27”

  1. Mhm this sounds really good. My grandparents kept talking about bread soup. It was mainly a war dish when everything was gone and the bread stale. I recently found my grandmas recipes in her belongings. I bet your soup is much more extravagant. It does make me want to try it though. And I love a carb fest. Specially when having a migraine.

    1. The bread soup is perfect for using up old bread. I think you should try your grandmas recipe. That would be so cool. My mum’s mum used to make the best sponge cakes every Sunday when she came for dinner. A few years ago my sisters, daughter, niece and mum and a multi-month bake off when we took turns trying to make a sponge that would match hers.