oh yes dear bloggers, you did read that right...!
this month the lovely and very busy mamma Jac from Tinned Tomatoes and I have teamed up to bring you a double-headed challenge whammy... Random Recipes does No Crouton's Required!
and it's all about soup... as you know, I am a keen advocate, particularly during these cold winter months... oh... well, it may have been the warmest October on record in the UK... but it's cold and damp somewhere... i'm sure!
Jac has been running the excellent No Crouton's Required challenge with Lisa's Kitchen, since the internet began back in the 1950's... or something like that... and it's a very successful and genius challenge, asking bloggers to create a vegetarian soup or salad with a different theme each month... and so to shake it up a bit, this month she will ask her bloggers to pick their soup or salad randomly... and i'm asking all of you to do the same... and there are lots of ways to pick... a lot of cook books have dedicated chapters for soup, many have the soup recipes at the start of the books or, like me, you may have an entire book of soups...
I have a copy of the brilliant New Covent Garden Food Company Book of Soups from which I have just randomly selected a White Bean, Tomato and Sage Soup, which is one of their rare soups that they no longer make due to its complicated and un-predictable recipe... I can't wait to make it!
now onto the rules...
... you can take part on either (or both) of our blogs depending on your whim or fancy, so do pop over to Tinned Tomatoes for a shifty...
... your soup should be vegetarian or at the very least vegetarian friendly (no, i'm not sure what this is either, I just made it up...)
... post your recipe by the 29th of November and email either myself at dom@thepersuaders.co.uk or Jac at tinnedtomatoes@googlemail.com
... link your recipe back to our blogs and use the excellent joint logo when you post.
... there will be a winner announced, chosen by Jac and myself on the 30th.
... i think that's it... oh yes... eat and of course, enjoy!
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Dom, since I love soup I'm up for the challenge! Sounds like a fun one!
ReplyDeleteMy, my! Branching out are we? I have a copy of The Soup Bible, so will randomly turn to a soup recipe and dive in! Maybe I'll make croutons and maybe I won't!
ReplyDeleteTTFN!
Oh it's definitely soup weather. I'm excited!
ReplyDeleteI am not called the soup dragon for nothing and I am so in!!
ReplyDeleteA-ha, now I get what all that shiftiness was about on twitter! Luckily it is still soup-ish weather here (groan). Nice one!
ReplyDeleteDom, I'm in!!! I love soups!!
ReplyDeleteHave a great evening
What are the chances of me randomly picking chocolate soup ;0)
ReplyDeleteSo that's what it was all about! Hmmm, I'm with Chele - not quite sure I can even find a recipe for chocolate soup, never mind pick it randomly :-S
ReplyDeleteWhat a fantastic idea!!! Funnily enough this months Sweet Heat Challenge is also for soup but you can never have too much soup as far as I'm concerned!! It's going to be a good month : )
ReplyDeleteI LOVE SOUP!!! i'm in!
ReplyDeleteOhh- the blog-sphere in union! Brilliant concept Dom!
ReplyDeleteOh how excellent! My two favourite bloggie challenges in one - that should save me some time. Does that mean I have to make something that is twice as good as usual? :-)
ReplyDeletePerfect - that's at least four of our family meals sorted. If I make one soup, it will last at least two meals and Steve will have to make a different soup. So, no stress - nice and easy. (I hope).
ReplyDeleteNot at home at the moment - house- and dog- sitting so will have a look when I get home to see how I am going to randomly do this. Prob take all the savoury books out, randomly choose one then randomly open somewhere near the front or if it is a book with soup recipes sprinkled through, look at index, count the soup recipes then random number to choose one. Easy. Or convoluted. Whatever.
Soup for autumn sounds perfect. I'm going to sit back and wait to see all the amazing entries!
ReplyDeleteOoh good, this is one I can do....
ReplyDeleteme me me!!! I want to do this please Dom. Thnaks.xxxx
ReplyDeleteLove a bit of cross blogination. Are there any soups that require baking?
ReplyDeleteI made some fab spicy split pea, pumpkin and coconut soup last night - a shame it was an invention rather than a recipe! I'm a HUGE soup fan - we probably eat soup about 4 meals a week, but I don't blog about it that much - time for that to change! Going to dig out my Soup Bible again (it was my random book from last month), shut my eyes and point at the index...
ReplyDeleteI must say, I look forward to cooking and eating some comforting and warm bowl of soup :)
ReplyDeleteOooh I've got a River Cottage Cookbook that I've never opened and had soups in it. Think I'll go to the back of that, count them up and randomly use one from there. Woop....AND it's useful for lunches at work. Yum.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't wait so I went and looked straight away. The internet random number generator has chosen me Pea, Lettuce and Lovage soup.
ReplyDeleteSounds fab. Now....anyone know where I can get lovage from?
Looking forward to this one!
ReplyDeleteDom this is my recipe http://cookingmanu.blogspot.com/2011/11/pea-and-pesto-soup-by-nigella-zuppa-di.html
ReplyDeleteHave a great evening!!
LOL
Done! Lentil and Pasta Soup from 'The Soup Bible'
ReplyDeleteThanks for a hearty challenge!