Friday, 8 March 2013

Government-approved food to die for

The latest thing from the government (or some other po-faced fun-spoilers) is that we should only eat the equivalent of one rasher of bacon a day in processed meat (I had no idea bacon was processed meat, but there you go). What a dilemma! Do we eke out our supplies to one rasher a day, or have seven rashers on Sundays? Decisions, decisions...

But mulling over my Healthy Options, I thought of soupe corse (illustrated). This, oddly, is my favourite food in the world. It's a Corsican peasant soup (Corsican peasants don't count as processsed meat) which is different in every Corsican* restaurant - no two the same, but all just wonderful. It has humble ingredients - vegetables, perhaps a scrap of bacon, beans, sometimes pasta. I just love it. I looked up the recipe online (I have invented my own before, but I've forgotten how I did it), and they're all in French. My French is of the get-by variety. But I'm going to make it today.

Probably.

* We love Corsica, and not just for the soup. I've lost count of the number of times we've stayed there.
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  1. ADRIAN8 March 2013 at 12:57

    There are experts and expert talking heads. I would opt for binge baconing. Or have one thick rasher a day.
    That looks a wonderful soup.

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  2. Maggie May8 March 2013 at 14:46

    Every day someone is telling us about something else we shouldn't be eating/drinking/smoking. I stick with the saying, "a little bit of what you fancy does you good."

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  3. Yvonne Osborne8 March 2013 at 15:05

    Looks divine! The best soups are made from the humblest ingredients.

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  4. Patsy8 March 2013 at 15:12

    Too much of anything is bad for us, isn't it? Constantly worrying about what we eat is probably bad for us too.

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    1. Frances Garrood8 March 2013 at 22:10

      Good point, Patsy. And why do they want us all to live so long anyway? It's none of their business!

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  5. Librarian8 March 2013 at 15:25

    The soup looks great, and if you make one today, I doubt writing it down will help much for future use; it will never be the same again :-)
    As for the experts' recommendations... well, I suppose we all know what to think of them.

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    1. Frances Garrood8 March 2013 at 22:10

      I did make the soup. Kind of. It wasn't nearly as good as last time :(

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  6. Keith Havers8 March 2013 at 15:49

    I wish MPs would concentrate on more important things and stop telling us what to do. John Prescott and Eric Pickles don't look as if they've skimped on the bacon butties.

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  7. Joanna8 March 2013 at 16:02

    I really love the look of the soup. I wish I had a bowl of it in front of me now to go with the bit of dry bread that is my very late lunch.

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  8. Teresa Ashby9 March 2013 at 08:42

    I've given up listening to what they say is good/bad for us and agree with what Maggie says. That soup sounds nice :-) x

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    1. Frances Garrood9 March 2013 at 09:27

      I agree, Teresa. It makes me want to take up smoking and binge drinking and drugs and...and...and...

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  9. Rosemary Gemmell9 March 2013 at 09:16

    Yum - we love good hearty soup. As for what 'the government' say - I've stopped listening to much of it.

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