Grilled Spinach soup
This is one soup day we were very happy not to have visitors. For a start Mike picked a soup out of a new book I had picked up for him at a local book sale called ,” The Great Book of Classic Cuisine” This one sounded very different and interesting. After all,classic cuisine, what can go wrong with that?
I should have known something was wrong when Mike called from the kitchen and said, “I'm not going to serve this in half a coconut.” I thought that was strange. It was only later after looked at the finished soup and then saw the picture in the book that I realized he had thought the picture was of Grilled Spinach Soup when in fact it was an entirely different soup, Grated Coconut Soup.
The soup itself was similar to French onion soup in that it has a spinach base and then grilled bread coated with cheese floating on top. Sounds good okay? However , apart from the spinach which was cooked very quickly in the base liquid ,it was very bland and all the taste came from the cheese on top. If the spinach had had more taste or had added herbs to flavor it it might have been better. Mike gave it only a 7.5 and I gave it a 6. Just an uninteresting taste and like French onion soup, difficult to eat. Te best part was the stringy cheese.
I had brown wheat rolls left from the last batch I had made so we had those with the soup which helped a bit but these are never as tasty as when first made. Maybe it's the smell that accompanies the fresh rolls that we really enjoy.
Still I had made a fresh apple pie that day so we thoroughly enjoyed a slice of pie a la mode and forgot about the spinach soup.
We did notice that this soup leaves a selection of small spinach leaves stuck to the bottom of the soup bowls which if you are very clever ( and imaginative) you can read a fortune like you do with tea leaves. We tried.
Mine was “Keep spinach for salads not for soups in future”.
Mike's was “ Eat this soup when sick as spinach is good for strengthening just as Popeye said”
Maybe we will make the Grated Coconut Soup later on this year.Should be fun sawing a coconut in half. But I'm sure Mike has the tool to do it !!
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