Soup of the Evening, Beautiful Soup!

[angharad]

Protein, Fungus, Vegetable, Grain: black beans, mushrooms, carrots, cabbage, hard red winter wheat
Herbs and Spices: cayenne, thyme, coriander, dill, tarragon
Staple Seasonings: onions, celery, garlic, olive oil, salt, pepper, vinegar, soy sauce, one bouillon cube

Edit: I forgot to mention olive oil, in which I fried the celery, onions, and (ooh,

Comments

[twinbee]

that sounds wonderful. i wish i could have some

i've never thought about wheat in soup. very creative. howssat work?

[angharad]

In this case, about like this:

[internal monologue:
doot di doo...
Let's get out the storage jar of short-grain-brown-rice...
There appears to be another bag of same stuffed into the teff jar. Probably older. Should use it first...
*unscrew lid*
*untwist tie*
Huh. The tie says "hard red winter wheat". That might be more exciting...
*scoop*
*dump*
]
It was in fact, about as exciting as the brown rice would've been. Being whole grain, it needed longer cooking before achieving full explodey soupy softness, but so would brown rice.

Of course, ways to put wheat in soup which require more work exist. You have your dumplings of various ethnicity. Seitan globs could be done too, I assume, by using extracted gluten powder rather than flour.

you lie

[solomoxen]

thats not mock-turtle soup!

Semantical Quibbling

[angharad]

In fact, mock-meat can be made of wheat-gluten, so seen through the lens of my artistic licence, it is in fact pre-mock-turtle soup!