This cream of carrots soup is a great way to include carrots in your diet. A cup of boiled carrots contains over 30% of your recommended daily intake of vitamin A, which keeps your immune system, your eyes, and bones happy. Vitamin A also increases women's fertility and plays an important role in embryonic development.
Here in Romania carrots are considered by some the number one vegetable to use as a base in soups. Then come celery root (celeriac) and parsnip or parsley root. Onion is also used all the time, but you'll notice if you boil an onion separately in one liter of water that its taste is not too strong (and it's of course even weaker if you use one onion to a large pot of soup).
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We don't throw away much food (leftovers). Food scraps, yes. The municipal waste management company is Rebu. Note that we don't have dumpsters at apartment buildings: we throw the garbage down a chute. It collects in a dumpster, yes, but we don't throw it there ourselves (as I hear it happens in cities in the US).
Mira, What do people in the city do with food scraps and kitchen leftovers? Is there a Romanian equivalent of Waste Management, which collects garbage set out in dumpsters and trash cans in the United States?
People in the countryside give their food scraps to the poultry. Chickens eat cucumber peels, eggshells and so on. I haven't seen much composting around though. In fact I just asked an aunt right now (almost not believing that they didn't / don't compost) and she said it was a very good idea and she'll read about it and get on it :) So thanks :):)
Mira, Thank you again for the lovely annotated recipe.
So if you all don't compost, do food scraps and kitchen leftovers go into the trash for the Romanian equivalent of Waste Management (highest-paid CEO in the United States)? What do you all tend to use for garden, houseplant and lawn fertilizer?
It depends. I find that broccoli soup, for instance, needs milk, whereas this one doesn't. Unless you prepare it Thai-style, in which case you add coconut milk (and other ingredients).
I find that vegetable soup can take any kind of vegetable, so pumpkin will easily go into it.
You could, but you'd have to use something spicy hot/piquant. I'm also thinking coriander. Here's a recipe that sounds excellent to me: http://www.jamieoliver.com/news-and-f...
I am wondering if pumpkin could replace the carrots. we just bought a rather large pumpkin, and my wife plans to make soup from it.
Yes, I agree I should have used the onion to make a veggie spread in the blender, for instance. I'm also all for composting.
My personal policy is to use up waste food. Only today I combined a large portion of marrow with some scrap vegetables in the soup maker. But peelings and other scraps are composted.So re-use is the first choice, composting the second.