Soup Not For The Faint (F)hearted

Decided to make one of my large generic vegetable soups today which end up very tasty and nutritious and last a few days… I summarised my dietary situation and guessed my phenylalanine levels would be high as I’d eaten some fish, tut tut… I have an amino acid supplement tyrosine, which I take as it battles with phenylalanine across the blood brain barrier and as my levels would be high I decided to add some of this apparently tasteless powder to my soup. Oops! it tasted bloody awful, what a waste of all those veges, let alone time and preparation. So I did what the Indians do when meat has been lying rotting on the plains in the middle of summer and they want to eat it, I used a whole (nearly) jar of hot curry paste, added some garlic, tomato puree and extra seasoning. It seemed to do the trick and was actually reasonably palatable. Having had a couple of large bowls today I’m beginning to get the full effect though, it’s a good job I’m on my own and don’t smoke.

3 comments December 10th, 2007