The original plan

It was a horrible cold, wet day (it rained constantly all day I think) so no way was I going out! Perfect weather for some nice hot home made soup, luckily I had thought about making some soup the other day and had picked up a couple things. Thus for today's blip I gathered up the main ingredients and took a few pictures before proceeding. In the end I decided to only use half the pepper and an additional tomato and I only used a couple garlic cloves (not the whole bulb!), plus half an onion, I decided not to use the beer maybe if I had something fruitier or some red wine. Which has just reminded me, I must get a couple bottles of wine!

I roughly chopped up everything and threw it all in a pot with a bit of oil and stirred it together on a high heat for a few minutes just long enough to soften everything and release some juices. I added a pinch of paprika, some ground ginger and some Italian herbs and added a vegetable stock cube and boiling water and simmered for a while before blitzing a bit with my hand electric blitzy thing ;-)

It worked out pretty well (see here) somewhat reminiscent of a bolognese sauce, not surprising really considering the ingredients. Would have worked well with some nice warm crusty bread but I only had regular boring white sliced.