Mid-week update

Happy hump-day readers! How are we all feeling mid-week? Looking forward to the weekend?

Anyways, this week I have been frugally feeding myself with lots of fresh vegetable soup. On Saturday I made four servings of carrot soup and poured it into jars I had recycled (I found these are the best way to transport soup- no leaks! and are free too!) and I popped them in the fridge ready to grab bleary eyed before rushing to the train station.

I read somewhere that cookery is not a precise science, but a creative art and this is the advice that I subscribe to. While  my BF scrumptiously cooks according to the recipe down to the last grain I guesstimate, throwing in approximate amounts of ingredients and hoping for the best. So here's my improvised fresh carrot soup recipe;

Ingredients 

• Three quarters of a bag of smart price carrots, priced a reasonable 76p from Asda 
• Some garlic
• Half a red onion found lurking in the fridge
• One sweet potato 
• Some flaked almonds (gives a nice crunchy texture) 
• One roasted red pepper in vinegar from a jar 
• Some chilli flakes (optional)
• One low salt vegetable stock cube 

Method 

1. Chop up all ingredients and place into a slowcooker/large saucepan 
2. Pour in an approximate amount of hot vegetable stock
3. Leave to cook 
4. Once the ingredients have gone soft use a hand blender to blitz into soup
5. Add some more hot water if needed 
6. Pour into clean, recycled jars and leave to cool before placing into the fridge 

I spotted some reduced crusty onion french bread rolls in the Co-Op on Sunday evening (they reduce all baked goods towards the end of the day) four for 25p which made a meal of my pre-prepared soup. I've eaten two already this week, and the other two are in the freezer to defrost. 

The price of travel 

Tomorrow is also the date on which I will need to buy a new monthly train ticket, this week I've been walking from the West End to either Waterloo or Charing Cross train stations because it seems the tube is becoming increasingly packed (Christmas shoppers already?!). I'm debating whether to go for the all out travel card option priced £180.00 or a cheaper over-rail only. I'm thinking that there's some x-mas drinks coming up, and we're going away this weekend and our coach goes from Victoria that the travel card will probably be the best choice- at least I won't have to worry about topping up. Are there any other commuters out there? What are your thoughts?