Winter soup

It has been a while, but I am still cooking, and still running around after kids. I have been trying a cash budget for the last several weeks, and I think it is very definitely saving us money as I tend to try to make do a bit more rather than just going out and buying more food when there is really plenty in the house. 


We have also been trying to have a vegetarian meals at least once a week. 
Tonight we had a winter vegetable and barley soup from the latest Dish magazine. I didn't have spinach, but there was some very green curly kale in the vege garden, so that worked really well.  On a tangent, curly kale tossed with a little oil and salt and pepper and then baked makes really good chips.


So, the soup....topped with basil pesto and shaved parmesan and served with toasted homemade grainy bread....

Apologies for the bad photo quality - it was taken on the ipad.  I would have posted this from the ipad too, but alas, it appears that I am technologically challenged as I couldn't work out how to attach the image on the ipad.


As for the verdict?  Braden and Kyla both had seconds so it appears that it was a success.  Will have it again I am sure.