Now I consider myself to be a bit of a gardener. At least I can grow things. I like gardening and I enjoy the fresh produce out of the soil.
Now I always seem to have extra carrots. I don't freeze carrots as they seem soggy. I can't seem to store them either. So by about December my carrots are no longer edible.
So I try and make up carrot soup and freeze it. Did I tell you that I was a bit of soup maker. At least I think I can make soup!
So I made three batches of curried carrot soup. Then I thought I'd try something different. Ginger carrot soup sounds good!
So I bought some ginger. I noticed that the recipe I had only made 4 servings so I doubled it. I think they said the prep time was 45 minutes. (Liars!) My plan was to prepare the ingredients that go in the soup first. Hey 1/2 cup of grated ginger. I had never grated ginger before! One hour and fifteen minutes later, with much cussing and scraped knuckles I had half a cup of grated ginger. At this time I told the Micro Manager that my soup wouldn't be ready for lunch.
So then came the 8 cups of carrots.
So I get everything going and cooking. I did a taste test. It was very hot!
So when things were cooked I pureed for half an hour.
So after this marathon to make 8 servings of soup, I said never again. There will be no more ginger soup around this place.
I will go back to Mr Google and look for some other carrot soup recipes.
Hope you enjoyed my version of ginger soup AKA ginger snaps. ;-)
ReplyDeleteThe ginger snaps cheered me up. Thanks Uncle Brent!
DeleteMaybe you can call it Ginger Carrot Knuckle Soup. At least then you'd get to eat it all :) How did it taste? Sometimes recipes are more trouble than they're worth!
ReplyDeleteThis recipe was a flop. Not enough carrot in it.
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ReplyDeleteThis is the angriest I have ever know you to be Red! Making soup should be a gentle, calming process with Chopin playing in the background and birds twittering in the garden.
ReplyDeleteThe Micromanager calls sweetly, "Is the soup ready yet Keith?"
"Won't be long now darling!" as you begin to ladle it into your bowls.
So that's why my soup didn't turn out. There was too much swearing.
DeleteOh my! I really hate grating ginger by hand. I use my food processor and it does the job nicely though it takes a minute because ginger is stringy. I hope the ginger carrot soup tasted good even though it took awhile to make.
ReplyDeleteTo top it all off the soup was not nice. I will have to learn a few things about ginger before I use it again.
DeleteI've cooked a lot of things in my life that has had Tim saying, "You might want to just lose that recipe." But when it comes right down to the actual disasters in cooking, those only occur when you've doubled a recipe?
ReplyDeleteI have a suspicion that doubling was part of the problem in this one.
DeleteOne and a half cups of grated ginger????
ReplyDeleteI usually give up around the tablespoon mark
Actually it was half a cup but it was still too much.
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ReplyDeleteCarrot cake would be yummy. I love ginger, maybe you can buy in a jar already grated. Take care, have a great new week!
I will check out your ideas if there is a next time.
DeleteSecond soup post of the morning for me. I have two soups that I sometimes make -- cauliflowers with swiss cheese and a sweet potato soup. Somehow, I can't imagine a carrot soup. I am not a fan of carrots and can only eat them when the are roasted so long that they no longer taste like carrots. Meanwhile, my grandson ONLY likes then raw. Who can account for tastes? We are stuck with them though.
ReplyDeleteYou are missing out on a great life experience without carrots.
DeleteI can understand that frustration. That’s a lot of grating. I put ginger in carrot soup but a pinch compared to what you used. I love ginger though.
ReplyDeleteThere was definitely too much ginger in this recipe.
DeleteThat does sound like a lot of prep and processing to make soup. Did it taste good?
ReplyDeleteIt did not taste very good. Now I may be a bit slow with the processing.
DeleteOh well!
ReplyDeleteMy parents would generally cut up the carrots for freezing. My mom would periodically make a Dutch dish called hutspot, a stew of potato, carrots, stewing beef, and onion.
Sounds like a very healthy dish that your mother made.
DeleteGreat for a winter supper.
DeleteYou need a food processor!
ReplyDeleteI have a food processor. Maybe next time?
DeleteMy wife uses a pinch of ginger for carrot soup. Sorry to hear it was frustrating for you.
ReplyDeleteThere was definitely something wrong with this recipe.
DeleteYou never said how it finally ended up tasting. I hope it was good, considering all that work! Maybe knuckle skin improved the flavor? :-)
ReplyDeleteIt was not good soup. It was very hot and with lots of fiber.
DeleteWell, you can't say you didn't try! I think maybe a little less ginger would make a difference. Is it too hot to eat? If so you could make some plain carrot soup and mix with the hot one. If you still have a lot of carrots left you could do as Eileen suggested and make carrot cake. I believe that freezes well. At any rate, you deserve a gold star for your hard work!
ReplyDeleteIt's edible but I don't like hot stuff. there's too much fiber.
DeleteI recently made a ginger carrot soup that was delicious. My batch was smaller than yours, so less prep. Maybe that's the ticket for you? Also, roasted carrots are one of my favs. Thanks, Robin Andrea for sending me to the blog!
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting my blog. I'm sure there are much better recipes to choose.
DeleteI like to cook but that recipe sounds a bit much.
ReplyDeleteI had never used ginger before .
DeleteMaybe not worth it, but seems like a noble try. But ... nobody makes a powdered or flaked ginger that you could buy?
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that there must be some other ginger options.
DeleteWow! It was a lot of work! Real simple has a video of grating ginger with a fork. Never tried it. But, you can save your knuckles.
ReplyDeleteI had never cooked with ginger before.
DeleteI'm so sorry !
ReplyDeleteThere must be better recipes to choose from.
DeleteOh wow! What a job that was. Hope the soup was good after all that work.
ReplyDeleteI freeze carrots after they are cooked...I use whole carrots...I don't mind easy to chew carrots:)
ReplyDeleteI guess it is a sign of aging, but I've done a fair amount of canning soup for consumption. Might I offer a suggestion. Next time instead of grating, just rough chop and throw in the pot. I find that much easier since it can be pureed later after it is soft and nobody will ever know it wasn't grated. But it does require a decent blender to do a good job.
ReplyDeleteOh dear, what a shame that the soup did not live up to expectations after all that work. I do not enjoy grating ginger either.
ReplyDeleteI like ginger in moderation but I do NOT like grating things. Some of my fingers end up in the grater somehow. And it's tedious! I love soup this time of year.
ReplyDeleteWell, it sounds like that recipe was too time consuming and not worth the effort. I love soup and have made carrot soup in the past. One of my favorites is a roasted tomato and roasted carrot soup.
ReplyDeleteI know all about prep time as it always takes longer for me when getting those ingredients together. But your carrot soup with carrots straight out of your own garden would be wonderful. I have a ginger and carrot soup recipe. We live on soups during winter. Grating anything by hand can not only take time but it is a challenging task, and bandaid inducing! To have to grate that much would definitely take the fun out of it. I bought fresh ginger recently. Quite a while back I made a beverage with ginger and turmeric as two of the ingredients. I can’t remember what it tasted like but I remember enjoying it and want to make it again.
ReplyDeletewe try to use fresh and seasonal veggies mostly specially since we both have sensitive stomachs .
ReplyDeletei think using lots of ginger at once irritated you a little bit :)
i am never tired of having ginger in my dishes ,this irritate hubby sometimes though :)
mostly the prep time never worked fine for me which is sad :(