10 Minute Chicken and Sweetcorn Soup

Hands up if, like me, you've had more than one full Christmas dinner in the last few days? Keep your hand up if, as much as you really really enjoyed them at the time, you're still uncomfortably full and can't believe the sheer quantity you consumed. Yup, me too. I'm ready for some lighter food!

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Wild Mushroom Soup

In winter, we keep a pretty good stock of soup in the freezer. It's just so nice to be able to warm up on a crisp day with a bowl of your favourite... which is why at any given time we usually have at least three varieties in the freezer to choose from, and why we keep them in individual portions. They make for a far more enjoyable, much more filling, and just as easy lunch to take to work than cuppa soups!

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Carrot and Thyme Soup

Do you remember when I told you about our garden? Didn't it look so neat and tidy in those photos? Well, it doesn't look like that anymore. At all. Our courgette plant has taken on a life of its own (quite literally) and is now sprawling over the raised bed like some sort of monster from the deep... our sunflowers are no longer looking very sunny and are straining against the string we used to support them as if desperate to be free of a straight jacket and our herbs.... our poor little herbs have become spider central! Thank goodness Mr E retrieves them for me (he's well trained like that).

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Cream of Celery and Blue Cheese Soup

Mr Ellwood and I had a very exciting weekend. A very, very exciting weekend. An unbelievably exciting weekend. We, ladies and gentlemen, got to go to the London 2012 Olympics! Not only that, but we were blessed to have tickets to the final day of the rowing- we got to see Team GB bring home 2 Golds and 1 Silver! Woohoo!

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Bacon and Chickpea Soup with Spicy Tortilla Chips

Wow. Just wow. Seriously- wow.  Yes, I know the title of this post was "blah blah soup blah blah" but I promise, soup can be wow! Don't believe me? Having served this for Sunday lunch I was still pottering about in the kitchen (read: taking photos to post on here) before sitting down to eat, and suddenly there was a great deal of shouting from the other room. "Honey! Honey! Seriously, come quick, you have to taste this!"... which brought a smile to my face almost as quickly as I thought "he thinks I didn't taste it before serving?".

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