@Steph - If you have some spare courgettes this year, I can think of a good home for them - my tummy!

@wisewebwoman - you can use the Parmesan in any soup to add beautiful richness and smoothness - plus, since very little of the rind disintegrates into the soup, I was still able to serve it to a dairy-allergic grannymar! Jut remember to scrub the rind clean first, you never know who has handled it!

@Magpie - one swig for the pot, one for the belly - you have to taste all your ingredients to make sure they haven’t spoiled!!

@Baino - you must give us that recipe for the sun-dried pull apart, sounds like fun! Maybe GM can feature it as a future recipe?

@Nancy - you’re a hoot as always! Thanks for keeping us all laughing every day - are you ever going to start your own blog? Or are you just saving all those stories for your memoirs???

@maureen - if there’s no vermouth in the cupboard, then you can replace with white wine - it’s always a good excuse to open a new bottle!!

@Alice - it’s a brilliantly easy recipe and one that doesn’t need too much attention, which is what I like.

@Karen - as mum said, it gives a good 8 bowls - but it freezes really well. I freeze my sauce and soup in ziploc bags (the size have to use going through the airport these days), flat in the freezer. The double-lock ziploc ones don’t leak and because a portion only lies about a centimetre deep in them, they defrost in 20 mins (less if you put them in water), so are perfect to pull out of the freezer instead of calling take-away…

We’ll get banned from this blog if we’re not careful

I had heard your soup story before and I found it even funnier second time round.

Oh, oh… Grannymar is back. I’d better skidaddle fast Cya!

BTW She’s up to tricks with her vinegar again

@Karen - we had about 8 good sized bowls of soup from that potful. Why not make it up and freeze the left overs in portions for use at another time. I do that each time I make soup and it means that it can be defrosted quickly when in a hurry.

Since we are carrying on for GM, I suppose it’s up to us to answer all queries about the soup.Karen asked how much soup Elly’s recipe made. The truth is, I don’t know,do you? I am not a good judge of quantity.

Did I ever tell you about the turkey soup I made when I was first married? Well, My MIL gave me the recipe and it included rice. When I asked her how much rice, she said,”Oh, just a little.” So, to me a little rice was three cups…

After cooking about an hour I heard strange noises coming from the soup pot and when I looked the lid was rising off pot and a mass of rice was coming up but not spilling over because it was SOLID… A giant lump of rice was pushing the top of the pot toward the ceiling.

Just then my husband arrived home from work and taking one look at the pot and it’s contents asked me who I was cooking this rice for. He suggested that Ho Chi Mihn’s Army could be fed for about a week from that one pot of soup….

We ate the soup with a fork and it was delicious. What was left over was given to the Salvation Army for distribution to the deserving and uncomplaining.

So, sorry, Karen I am not the one to ask about how many serving this recipe provides for so I am turning this question over to my cohort,Steph ,for further clarification..Steph?

I’d say Grannymar could use those batteries to get her going again after yesterday

Maybe she’s getting used to the good life down South and has forgotten all about us, her loyal followers *sob* *sob*

Come back! Grannymar

WE MISS YOU!