Well the executive summary is: unpleasant and salty
Chicken and cannellini Soup:
1. I found some beans to use
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2. I had some concerns about wasting food in the midst of a cost of living crisis so I made a few tweaks to Jack’s recipe so the food wouldn’t have to binned. (Sorry if this breaks some slopalong rules, I will try harder next time)
3. I fried the additional items of: onion, garlic and herbs in a pan. I used a pan without a lid for the full Jack experience
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4. I couldn’t bring myself to use the bean water. The best before date was 2024 but I bought these beans over a year ago during a short lived Ottelenghi phase, which I had to abandon because sourcing all the ingredients was a full time job.
5. In with the chicken stock cube water
6. I wasn’t sure about blending, but did want to try to stick to the Jack experience. Luckily I had a blender, I’m not sure what the recommended substitution is in Grifty Kitchen, perhaps run over the soup with a lawnmower.
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7. soup slopping time.
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Essentially it was a bowl of stock, there was some flavour from the garlic and herbs that I added. Beans don’t have a taste and by blending them their texture and heartiness was negated.
It was a pointless bowl of slop, also zero chicken taste. In conclusion I wish I had ottolenghed the beans!