Awesome Soup #21 - Green pea and Mint soup

Green Pea and Mint soup

We wanted something tasty as this was to be our last soup for a while and after last week's bland soup, here is the one we found,
What could be more tasty than lots of peas and a bunch of mint leaves? Well, it did turn out really tasty , the peas were sweet and the mint very flavorful. Just as Mike was about to spoon it out he said , "It says you can eat it cold. Shall we do that- it might be better?"

The bread was not quite ready so we debated back and forth but in the end decided to eat it as it was. Now while we were deciding, the time had passed so in fact we had the soup kind of not hot and not cold. This was probably not the thing to do and I suspect this would actually be a great cold soup for a hot summer day. The texture was just right and Mike gave it an 8 and I gave it a 7.

The bread was, shall we say, somewhat a disappointment. I had found a recipe for beer, cheese  and herb wheat bread which sounded wonderful. It sure smelled wonderful as it was cooking . Unfortunately like a lot of wheat breads it failed to rise completely and although it tasted okay it was a heavy bread and strangely enough was very salty. No salt was in the recipe either so where it came from we just  don't know.

The wine, a 'Simply Naked' Californian Chardonnay was excellent and very refreshing .Mike had bought fresh carrots as the organic stall at the weekend and they were lovely and crunchy and you could actually taste the  carrot!!
We are a bit souped out but Mike says due to the quantity of vegetable,beef and chicken stock he has left in the refrigerator, we probably will continue making soups until we run out. 
I think with the hot weather fast approaching  most likely we will be having  Awesome COLD soup days !!