Minestrone

Made a great pot of minestrone yesterday afternoon – still without a car we’re foraging from the cupboard a bit more than usual and we had all the ingredients for this hearty soup. Recipe also recommended that any seasonal vegetables could be added as well – I used a bit of purple cabbage left-over from coleslaw earlier in the week – it looked rather fluorescent compared to the deep red tomatoey goodness when I first put it in but thankfully retained a somewhat lesser shade of purple in the finished product rather than boiling completely down to white leaving the soup a strange brown colour like I thought it would!

It was really rich and tasty and because I didn’t add any chilli or other spice it didn’t have that sharp often throat-burning taste that minestrone often has when you order it out. And we had left-over soup for lunch today so we’re doing well with our cupboard meals!