…Dee Haigh

Still no sign of the camera lead.. If it doesn’t show up soon I’ll send for a replacement..

I’m resorting to swiping photo’s from sites I got these recipes from and linking to them – credit where credits due!

I am a soup’aholic. There.. I said it.

In fact I’m a one pot throw it all in kinda girl.  Soups, Stews, Casseroles,  Hot Pots…

[did you know Creuset is french for cauldron?]

#Le Creuset has been making superb, award winning cookware since 1925 and the secret recipe of ingredients remains the same today. Each piece is made from a unique mould into which molten iron is poured from a large cauldron (called a creuset).#

It’s become a family joke now, if someone asks for me, they always reply.. She’s in the kitchen stirring her cauldron – yawn!

My one pot soupy, stewie obsession started years ago when I was on a diet… Remember the cabbage diet. What can I say –  I was young and foolish and if my memory is correct, quite windy.. lol

I was on that torturous  regime for a week feeling week and nauseous before I came to my senses and realised there’s more to life than cabbages, most soups stews are healthy and low fat. That was the start of my search for one pot recipes … and the end of my diet – any diet. Sensible eating  from now on.. Life is too short!

15  years on I have around 20 one pot recipe books, 4 folders of recipes I have ripped out of magazines and a huge amount of bookmarked sites. If I were to make one recipe a day I wouldn’t get through them in my lifetime – now that’s a scary thought.. I’m just a tad obsessed I think!

Mushroom bacon barley broth

This is a very filling broth, though I would say more like a stew. I’ve cooked it a few times with the intention of freezing some – its never around long enough to freeze..

Moroccan chickpea soup

This is a favourite of mine to use up the broad beans from the allotment – sometimes its a Moroccan broadie soup when I have no chickpeas and I’ve been known to chuck in some borlotto beans I’ve  grown at the plot..

Hopefully normal service will resume shortly. If my camera lead doesn’t show by the weekend I’ll order a new one.. I’ve got a feeling it could still be hiding in my suitcase since our last trip…