{"id":4111,"date":"2013-02-06T13:01:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T13:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4111"},"modified":"2014-02-01T21:59:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T21:59:58","slug":"pasta-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4111","title":{"rendered":"Pasta soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark made a pasta soup for me last week which I enjoyed very much.  It inspired me to make one for myself.  When I was given some very salty, thinly sliced ham to use up, I seized the opportunity.  I made a pasta soup adapted from this <a href='https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/bacon-bean-and-pasta-soup.pdf'>bacon, bean and pasta soup<\/a> with the following ingredients:<\/p>\n<p>1 onion, chopped finely &#8211; no salt when frying<br \/>\n1 tbsp minced garlic<br \/>\n120g dry pasta<br \/>\n1 carrot halved lengthway (just to flavour broth)<br \/>\n1 tin flageolet beans<br \/>\n0.5 pack green beans, sliced lengthways<br \/>\nchicken stock from 0.5 cube (no more as ham was v salty)<br \/>\nbay leaf<br \/>\n2 tbsp tomato puree<br \/>\n3 large handfuls sliced ham, sliced and torn into bite size pieces<br \/>\nlemon juice<br \/>\npepper<\/p>\n<p>Note:  My soup was a bit cloudy, I think it was caused by the tomato puree.<\/p>\n<p>20 Feb 2013<br \/>\nI made a veggie version of this for my uni friends, replacing the meat with chestnut mushrooms, swapping chicken stock for veg stock and leaving out the tomato puree.  I served it with a small bowl of  harissa and creme fraiche for them to blend in if required and a sliced giraffe loaf from Sainsburys.  They loved it.<\/p>\n<p>1 Feb 2013<\/p>\n<p>Kale disintegrates in this soup &#8211; don&#8217;t use again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark made a pasta soup for me last week which I enjoyed very much. It inspired me to make one for myself. When I was given some very salty, thinly sliced ham to use up, I seized the opportunity. I made a pasta soup adapted from this bacon, bean and pasta soup with the following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4111"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5020,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions\/5020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}