Delightful spring baby veg and nouple soup and small request

[vom_marlowe]

This is one of my favorite soups and I have been enjoying it thoroughly.  I wanted to share it with everyone before the seasonal vegetables were out of season!

It is based on some soups I've eaten in Vietnamese restaurants, an old Jaimie Oliver recipe, a collection of Thai online recipes, various of my own mad kitchen experiments, and some

Comments

[telophase]

I will try to remember to check my two izakaya cookbooks when I get home -- ISTR that at least one has recipes that call for shiso. (I also STR eating tempura shiso in Japan - they battered one side of the leaf and fried it. At least I think it was shiso! There were only 1 or 2 leaves with the meal, which is good as I think a full meal of tempura shiso would be rather overwhelming.)

[chomiji]

I usually eat it with sushi or sashimi of flounder or other mild fish, which does you no good, I realize ... you could try it in recipes that usually involve basil or mint (non-sweet things) - it's related to them, I think. Here's a recipe for a tomato-shiso salad, for example. And here's a shiso tofu recipe. And a shiso cucumber feta salad recipe

[lady_ganesh]

This looks yummy.