miso soup with your 5 a day is a complete meal

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Dh is complaining that I did miso soup for dinner. It contains a bunch of spring onions, garlic, ginger, two big sweet potatoes, chilli, 2 cups of peas, a bunch of coriander, seaweed, 100g of ground up seasme and a big spoon full of fresh live miso. That's a complete meal right?

It's partly psychological though. As a British person raised on meat and 2 veg type meals I just wouldn't see a bowl of soup as a dinner, no matter how nutritious it was. Perhaps the OP's husband feels the same way.

Yep APig, sweet potatoes in there ain't right.

Which brings me to a lot of 'recipes' I read on MN, just loads of hideous veg combos with pasta & fucking lentil bolognaise, LENTILS WITH PASTA?

Have some respect people.

I must admit I'm a bit at the thought of eating basically a bowl of very light vegetable broth which has had ground up sesame added to make up the calorie content, especially at this time of year.

I did have a bowl of scotch broth for my own dinner, I'm not anti soup as a full meal!

hound no one's making you eat it.
Food is just food (ie fuel) at the end of the day. No need to have 'some respect'. If people like lentils with pasta then so what?

think that was a joke
i love lentils with pasta but i know its wrong :)

I'm bloody starving now.

f i ever manage to buy miso ill give this a go

stealth apparently it isn't wrong. It's a proper Italian recipe. It's called 'pasta e lenticche'.

Hmmm, food isn't just fuel, food is one of the things that eases the passage, that fills the cracks, that gives pleasure in the mundane, in the everyday, it's a sensual pleasure as well as a necessity, it's a fucking JOY.

(Or would be if you weren't eating lentil bolognaise).

Yep Hound, sweet potatoes in miso is..just..a bit wrong. I love miso but potatoes of any sort just do not belong although I secretly like lentil bolognaise

I once saw someone boiling sliced peppers

the way i di it is bound to be wrong
i do love lentil bolognese though

Oh, lentils & pasta isn't intrinsically wrong, in a soup with puy lentils & plenty of other stuffs and broth it's a bloody delight.

In a fucking stodgy bolognaise?

Fuck that shit.

mm stodge topped with stodgr

I agree about the sweet potatoes too, not the right vegetable for this sort of soup IMO, but that wasn't the question.

I love lentils.

and in bolognase

and as bolognase.

i still want recipe
and dh and dcs to go away for a night as theyd never eat this

I made a chicken beany soup thing the other day with crusty bread, which was perfectly filling for me and DS. DP looked at it as if it was a starter, like I was hiding the steaks and chips main in the kitchen somewhere He ate it though and then ate a sandwich later on

Just to add, I'm having visions of that Ben & Holly episode, where Nanny Plum cooks a "modern dish" consisting of air made from a vegetable stew, and they're so hungry afterwards that they just scoff down the actual stew

your dh is right. maybe as a lunch. if i had some dumplings with it.

i have miso as a snack!

Ask a Japanese person, you'd get a definite yabu.

Chocolate - I know that episode well, DS tried to get me to make 'Air of Peas and Carrots' for a long time after.

You want the original thread recipe Stealth?, It's pretty much there isn't it?

Get a large pan, add a litre of water, induct miso paste (live), garlic & ginger, introduce incongruous sweet potatoes, simmer until tender take out, chuck in the bin & start again, at the end, lob in some some frozen peas (who are shocked at finding themselves in such a broth, 'surely we're made for an accompaniment to Shepard's or Fish pie?' they mutter amongst themselves whilst bobbing about in a grudgingly merry fashion), spring onions, coriander, seaweed & ground sesame seeds (Why did the crab blush? Because the seaweed & the sesame seed).

Slop into bowl
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Eat, with grimace.

Get breville out.

Eek no add the miso last when its cooling to protect the live ness of it!

Anyway me and dh survived the night just fine and full.

What's wrong with getting your calories from seeds, peas and sweet potatoes? Better than from nutrient void noodles.

And yes I'd did defo have over 80g of 4 different types of veg and then some seeds

It doesn't sound very appealing - like you've just thrown random veg in - and if it had more than 80g of ginger in it must have tasted...interesting. But there's nothing wrong with it per se. Other than the fact that in general I think such large portions of miso are not great for you from a salt perspective.

But I'll tegularly do a huge veggie soup for dinner. If you've had a big lunch it's quite filling.

Never boil miso! Let it simmer below boiling point for a few minutes at the end.

To people who "don't like miso": there are lots of different kinds, and some are MUCH better than others. Good miso makes a fantastic broth.

Miso and sweet potato wrong.

Lentil bologna isle bit of a staple when I was a student, probably wrong though when all stodgy. But not really that different from dhal and rice. Lentils and carb.

Also soup as a main meal wouldn't cut it in this house, there'd be looks....dark looks. I might try it though anyway.