Kitchen Supper - Clear tomato soup with rashes of BEEF, and sliced potato, what WINE??

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I am having a kitchen supper friday 13th, and have decided to serve a clear soup based on veg stock and tomatoe, quite spicy, with rashes of beef and sliced potatoe. It is a typical "winter warmer". I usually add a bowl of rice, for those who want it more filling. Planning on baking my own rolls to go with it.

I will have to have a salad for the diet conscious to snack on, as we will linger at the table, and stuff ourselves with freshly baked rolls and salad. Possibly some cheese, olives, parma ham type snacks...

Which wine should I serve?
Which salad should I opt for?
What snacks?

Will chocolate fudge cake with vanilla icecreram be a good dessert?
Or, an iced victoria sponge? (royal icing)

Red wine

DOn't knowabout the rest

Yes, I figure red wine, but there are many to choose from! Would a merlot be too mellow for a rather spicy beef?

What are rashes of beef?

I'm crap at wine but would serve red.
Choc fudge cake sounds fabbo

snacks - do you need snacks as well? Just have a very good cheese board out, maybe some crackers, olives, meat bits ifyou wnat.

A big bunch of very green grapes looks fab on a nice chopping board next to great cheeses!

I like cheese

Soup is notoriously difficult to match a wine to...but this is more of a stew, yep? Something peppery would match the stew well...an old world Shiraz? Cote de Rhone? But I would love to serve a stonking Italian with the overall meal I think.

expensive but TDF

Fun choice

Perfect!

Re the rest, loads of darker green leaves in a huge bowl with dressing to add yourself, and the ham,olives etc sound ace.

Any chance of the sou recipe? It sounds lovely

Thanks all.

It is called Goulage Soup, I will go and dig it out (the recipe is Norwegian, so give me a moment to translate)

3 potatoes
2 onion (red onion is also good)
1 red pepper
1 garlic clove
1-2 table spoons butter
200g beef without bones
3 table spoons tomate pure
6 dl beef stock
4 dl milk
salt and peper to season
1 t spoon oregano
1 t spoon paprika

Peel potatoes and onion, slice potatoes, chop onion. Cut pepper into strips, and the meat into small cubes

Fry onion and butter in a caserolle, add meat and pressed garlic. Cook just till it gets a little colour.

Add the tomato pure, potatoes and pepper. Add beef stock and milk.

Simmer for at least 15 minutes, until the potato is tender.
Season with salt and pepper, oregoano and paprika.

Decorate with fresh parsil and some powdered paprika on top.

I often add more potato and beef to bulk it out.

And as I said, rice. If I put rice on the plate, then add the soup, but not so much of the soups liquid, the kids LOVE IT.

I hope you like it!

Thank you!