African sweet potato soup - Cooking along with The Soup Book
I love tactile shit
I been making eye contact with a cook book for months and months and months. I got it from a book store I've never been to during a street festival. Being a storefront when something like that is going on must be a mess. People are just piling in droves to take public dumps. I got a blindboxed book because I bought this cook book. I have yet to read that book.
The soup I've been locking eyes with came from The Soup Book, it's been perched above my cutting board. Kind of crazy what we put up with on recipe websites compared to the feel of a cook book. The mountain of SEO slop. Thinking about this made me think comparatively to today's AI slop. We've been feasting at the trough for so long now, guess it's acceptable now.
This is African sweet potato soup according to Angela Nilsen's recipe. I had to check what this thing's real name was and I couldn't find a straight answer. I think the closest is 'maafe' but that's a more peanut forward stew. This just had a dollop of peanut butter at the end, and thinking what it would do to the profile of sweet potato, onion, red peppers, and tomatos before it was stressing me out a bit. It added a little earthiness to the taste.
This is one of those blended soups. I come from chunky country. But whatever I got a nice blending system, I should give it a whirl. To my surprise I shot hot soup all over the local proximity like a funny movie. I didn't know that could actually happen but it went over the sides of the lid. I guess the force from displacing the veg pushed it out? It cracked me up.
This recipe also called for straining it but I didn't see why. I started pushing it through the strainer and decided against it, I was losing all the pulp! After tossing everything back together I got my first solid spoons down the gullet. Folks we have a winner, it is as good as it looks. Something about the aromatics included gives it that nice ginger bite alongside what would normally be kinda standard autumnal vegetables. I keep thinking about how the ginger is elevating everything with each bite. It's quiet delicious.
There was a side quest! I love boiling eggs, something about lots of things in water is funny. Like boiling hot dogs, the mechanics of the image are so funny. Anyways my ass got Youtube shorted by something called Korean drug eggs. Also called Mayak eggs. The eggs over rice with the marinade rules. My first use of MSG as well as improvising and making some simple syrup. The recipe calls for honey but I was all out :( I think I missed out on some of those flavor profiles, also a TON of green onion doesn't make up for a yellow onion. Something to improve on, and expect more sidequest sidebars.