{"id":620,"date":"2012-10-31T11:25:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T11:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myfifteenminutemealsproject.co.uk\/?p=620"},"modified":"2012-11-01T11:28:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T11:28:07","slug":"squash-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myfifteenminutemealsproject.co.uk\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Squash Soup …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… Sagey Chestnut Dumplings<\/span><\/h4>\n

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I was quite excited about cooking this one.\u00a0 It looked like a great winter meal.\u00a0 I have been saving this for a cold grim day.\u00a0 Today it was cold and dark and rainy and so it seemed appropriate to cook this meal.\u00a0 Chestnut dumplings with a robust soup sounds just about perfect for a night like tonight.\u00a0 I have had an ever-shrinking number of dinner guests tonight.\u00a0 I was meant to have four guests and now I\u2019m down to just one.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

There was quite a bit to do tonight, but I was relatively confident that I could do it in the time.\u00a0 I have to get the dinner on the table by 19:15, so I start to cook on my own, with Hannah, my now sole guest, due to arrive by 19:15.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a lot to whiz up in the food processor.\u00a0 The recipe calls for three different uses of the food processor. Because of the capacity of my food processor this turned out to be four uses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In general it all went well, but the last bit was a bit slow and I was over the time by a fair bit.\u00a0 My dumplings felt a little sloppy.\u00a0 They tasted good, but the texture wasn\u2019t quite right.\u00a0 The flavours of this meal are great.\u00a0 There is a good bit of heat in the soup from the whole chilli that goes in. Hannah enjoyed the dumplings and the flavour of the soup but wasn\u2019t that keen on its texture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In all I am slightly disappointed with this meal.\u00a0 It took more than the fifteen minutes and I felt the dumplings just weren\u2019t quite right.\u00a0 I want to try this one again because I think I could do this better.\u00a0 I think I will do it again, but it will have to wait until all 115 meals have been cooked.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By the way I looked at a new house today.\u00a0 It has a bigger and better cooker (in that it has two ovens and they are 60cm wide rather than my 50 cm wide one), but it has an electric hob \u2013 I\u2019m not sue how I\u2019ll get on with that \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

How long:<\/strong>\u00a0Sixteen minutes and\u00a0nine seconds<\/span><\/p>\n

Who with:<\/strong>\u00a0Hannah\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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