Here you go:
- Can of tomatoes (whole or cubed) or passata (Just look for either the cheapest or the one with the fewest carbs. Often this will be the same can
)
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- some garlic cloves
- small can of tomato paste
- Stock cube (I use the vegetarian 'garden herbs' variety)
- water
- cream
Optional:
- bay leaf
- dried green herbs, thyme or rosemary or such
- some finely cut sundried tomatoes in oil
Of course you can use fresh tomatoes as well if you like, but they're expensive at the moment, it's more work, and besides I like the soup as it is.
- fry onions until soft
- add finely chopped garlic
- add tomato paste and fry a bit more until the garlic is tasty
- add tomatoes/passata, water and stock cube
- use stick blender if you used tomatoes instead of passata, although I like to have some cubed tomatoes in my soup, sometimes I add some of those afterwards.
- add herbs and little meatballs if you want meat in your soup, and let simmer for at least 20 minutes.
- add cream generously
You can make meatballs any way you like of course, but after some experimenting I liked them best this way:
- minced meat (I used half pork, half cow)
- 1 very finely chopped onion
- garlic
- 1 egg
- salt or soy sauce (which I used because I couldn't find the salt)
- spoon of Indonesian sambal badjak, which you won't have but I'm sure you can subtitute for something else to add some flavour)
- Two spoons of green pesto
This makes a rather soft mix, so I fried the little meatballs shortly in a frying pan to have the outside stick together before adding them to the soup, worked remarkably well!
I still have the same car as when I got the goats, almost two years ago, so I can show you the picture from when we got them! And of course I'll share a new picture after this adventure.
That time, getting them in the car was a nightmare. We didn't know the goats yet, so the obvious thing to do was to get the car as close to the goat stall as I could, and have the previous owners handle them, as we expected them to know how to handle their own goats.
They obviously didn't!
They tried to catch them for 20 minutes, and every time they had one they let go of it again because they were actually scared of their own goats. This of course drove the goats into a full blown panic, jumping up against the walls, not a pretty sight.
Thankfully my friend stepped in, and just grabbed one of the goats by the horns and wrestled it to the car, where we could lift it together. Same for the second goat.
This time I have a better plan!
I'll simply take a bucket of sweet food and rattle it so he'll follow me to the car, which shouldn't be a problem. He's also fine with being cuddled while eating, so that's what my neighbour and I will do, and then we'll lift him in a sudden move and have him in the car before he realises something's off!
Or at least, this is the plan.
Last time they seemed to enjoy the car ride, so I hope it will be the same this time.