The Greenhouse,

is about growing matters, focusing on my greenhouse and potager. I grow mainly vegetables, herbs and spices but flowers have their given place too. From seed to table, this is the nursery for my living food, we cook a lot of delicious food and I say a potager is the cook’s best friend. The greenhouse makes it possible to grow essential, colourful, warmth loving fruit and vegetables even in this climate such as tomatoes and chillies. My main blog is Tyras Trädgård/Tyra's Garden. View my profile

Friday

Tyra’s Tangy Yellow Tomato Soup


This post "Tyra’s Tangy Yellow Tomato Soup" was originally uploaded by Tyra Hallsénius Lindhe in the blog The Greenhouse...in Tyra's Garden


It is October and the colours of the leaves are rapidly changing...it is getting cold. But, I can still go out to my potager and greenhouse and find some of the ingredients for today's soup. Today I harvest parsnip, yellow tomatoes, lemon balm and leek. (I smile) I know, I'm a lucky girl. Here is the recipe, do try it it was so good.






Tyra’s Tangy Yellow Tomato Soup
- with and Asian twist

This is a very nutritious soup with a most interesting taste and it is full of healthy vitamins and minerals. It is terribly easy to make, it actually takes less than 30 min to prepare. You can serve it both hot and cold. Some of the flavours that are represented here like the ginger, sesame seeds and oil, garlic and all the lemony flavour I’ve added make me think about the Asian kitchen.
 Tyra’s Tangy Yellow Tomato Soup with an Asian touch has less than 150 cal. / serving. This recipe serves 2-3 persons (about 4 cups)

Ingredients:










Soup base to boil

400 gram yellow tomatoes
1 large onion
100 gram parsnips
1 small tender leek
1 small piece of ginger root (5cm -1-2 inches)
Water

Some gorgeous flavours to add into the blender

A small bunch of lemon balm, other herbs of choice (cilantro, lemongrass)
1 lemon, juice of
1 lime, juice of
1 garlic clove
A few dashes of fish-sauce and some green chili pepper
( or you can use a pinch of salt & ground white pepper)

Add some more flavours to garnish the soup with

1 tbsp. Japanese soya sauce
1 tbsp. roasted sesame seeds
A dash of sesame oil per serving

How to do it:
  1. Clean, rinse and cut all the ingredients for the soup base into fairly large chunks and put them into a saucepan, cover the veggies water. 
  2. Bring to boil and let it simmer for 5 minutes, turn the heat off and leave it to rest for 10 minutes. 
  3. During that time prepare the garnish 
  4. Pour the entire soup base into a blender and mix it on high speed until smooth. 
  5. Add the lemon juice, lime juice, garlic clove fish sauce and a small amount of chili - mix again for a few seconds. 
  6. Pour it into the soup bowl and add the garnish 

 - Voilà! Bon Appetit!



The tomoatoes I used in this recipe was the Wapsipinicon Peach, /I got an extra s on the picture/ Sown from seed in early March. You find seeds for Wapsipinicon Peach at Seed Savers Exchange.






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Thursday

Tyra’s Red Booster Soup

This post "Tyra’s Red Booster Soup" was originally uploaded by Tyra Hallsénius Lindhe in the blog The Greenhouse... 



Tyra’s Red Booster Soup 
- A red soup with tomato, sweet red chili pepper and carrot.
 The recipe makes tomato soup for 2-3 soup bowls  or  6-10 appetizers(small glasses)





This booster-soup is wonderfully red, it has very few calories and is packed with loads of excellent vitamins. It only takes about a quarter of an hour to prepare, so…this is true fastfood. 

Ingredients:  

Soup base

500 gr. red ripe tomatoes, all kinds
1 yellow onion
1 small sweet chili pepper
1 carrot
5 dl water 
Herbal salt


1 garlic clove
A assortment of fresh herbs (basil, thyme, sage, chervil, parsley, tarragon)
Peruvian pepper (whole)

Clean and cut the veggies into fairly large chunks.
Put them all into a saucepan and cover with water.
Bring to boil and let it simmer for 5 minutes
Add the herbal salt
Put it all in the blender and mix on high speed until smooth.
Now, add the garlic clove and the herbs into the soup and mix for a few seconds.
Add more water if necessary.

Pour the soup into a soup bowl and decorate with the Peruvian pepper and fresh herbs.




Variations

1. Add hot chili pepper to spice it up.

or/and

2. Serve Tyra’s  Booster Soup  ice-cold in pretty glasses with a celery stalk and perhaps some lovely big prawns on a stick.

Now that makes a really nice appetizer

Bon Appetit!/ Tyra



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Monday

Rocoto pepper - Capsicum pubescens

This post 'Rocoto pepper - Capsicum pubescens' was originally uploaded by Tyra Hallséenius Lindhe in the blog The Greenhouse...



October harvest

My Rocotos turned red...at last
Oh yeah, this is my favourite!





It is always a great joy to harvest from the potager but I must say when we now have entered the most of October it is even more fantastic.




I thank you Mother Earth for giving me all this./ Tyra





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