Marco Pierre White's Glorious Soups

As this is a food blog, I felt the urge to share my new lunch option for those busy days in the office!

I spotted in Asda last week, a range of soups called Glorious, endorsed by the one and only Marco Pierre White. I find tins / jars / cartons of soup normally predictably bland and avoid them in favour of my homemade versions usually rustled up from seasonal ingredients. However, these soups caught my eye due to the fresh and unusual sounding combinations and I invested in the Chicken, Courgette and Orzo Pasta broth variety. Special offer too, so under £1.50 I think.

The flavours were very fresh tasting, with proper chunks of ingredients not overcooked. There was plenty of meat and pasta making it thoroughly delicious as well as filling. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this soup and now just need to get hold of the other varieties to try (I eagerly went back to ASDA but couldn't find them??) which include:

• Irish Colcannon Soup
• Indian Chicken Soup
• Toulouse Sausage and Bean Cassoulet Soup
• Mexican Bean and Tortilla Soup
• Moroccan Tomato and Chick Pea

Stockists include Asda, Sainsbury, Morrisons and Nisa - get yourself down there and try them out!

Fish and Chorizo Soup

Last week at work was all quite exhilarating lets say and I am now moving departments to hopefully a more manageable job in the hours I work (9 till 3). My friend Sam Millergill is also moving departments which means our food banter on a daily basis will no doubt come to an end. What a shame!! The good news is that she brought a recipe in anyway and said it was the best thing she had cooked and tasted in a very long time.

With that as a recommendation I had no choice but to cook it at the weekend. Fish and Chorizo Soup (well, more of a stew by the time I had added a few new potatoes and extra seafood!). It was completely up to all she had cracked it to be - completely tasty, comforting, different and was even better the next day when we had the remainder for dinner. The kids enjoyed it even though I had added a little extra chili as I couldn't get hold of any really spicy chorizo.





Serve with good crusty bread and butter and a good sauvignon blanc.

I have to mention that although I got it on a scrappy piece of paper I believe via Chinese whispers it needs to be attributed to the legendary Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall - one of my all time heroes. Thank you Hugh. I hope you don't mind me spreading the word!

French Onion Soup

Despite being the middle of summer, the rain made it seem the right time for some French Onion Soup.



Really tasty especially if served with Gruyere Toast.

If you fancy trying some yourself, have a look at the recipe for French Onion Soup