I made fish soup using locally caught and sustainable hake. I purchase from our local fishmonger to support small business in our area.
I do not like the word diet. It conjures up starving yourself, or fads. I like the term healthy eating plan instead. This year we changed our eating plan. We’ve always eaten healthily but this year we made some changes. I can tell you after 4 months that this works for us. We’ve cut out carbohydrates in the form of pasta and potatoes every week night. I’ve not bought potatoes this year, and even though I consider myself a bit of a potato addict, I’ve not missed them. We are eating pasta at the most once a week and each dish is special instead of a boring use of what is in the fridge. I’ve not lost much weight, but I am slimmer. I am training 3 times a week and a lot of the wobbly bits have firmed up. As muscle weighs more than fat I am well pleased. I stopped drinking wine during the week for the first two months of the year to aid the new plan, and now I’m back to enjoying a glass with dinner each night. I have cut out sandwiches during the week which means lunch has to be thought about. I’m enjoying fruit and yoghurt or oats for breakfast and salad and boiled eggs for lunch. All told, I feel great and healthy and to me, that was the ultimate aim. Over the weekends Dave and I have indulged in hotdogs and wraps, but I decided that I could make a hot lunch for us, if the weather called for it. I love being in my kitchen, especially when it is raining. Here is a great rainy day soup recipe.
Fish Soup
Ingredients
- 15 g butter
- 5 mls canola oil
- 1 onion finely chopped
- 2 cloves garlic finely chopped
- 5 mls mustard powder
- 5 mls curry powder
- freshly ground black pepper to season
- 125 mls white wine
- 500 mls vegetable stock
- 2 carrots thickly sliced
- 200 g hake fillet cut into chunks (use more if you have it)
- seasoned flour for dusting
- 125 mls cream
Method
- Heat the butter and the oil in a large pot
- Add the onion and the garlic and sauté until soft
- Add the mustard powder and the curry powder and a couple of turns of your pepper mill
- Cook until you can smell the spices
- Add the wine and bring to the boil and boil for 30 seconds
- Add the stock and the carrots and simmer until the carrots are soft
- Pat your fish dry and dust with the seasoned flour
- Add the fish to the stock and bring to the boil
- Cook for 5 minutes and reduce the heat and add the cream
- Stir in until warmed and serve
- I added a teaspoon of coriander pesto for some extra zing
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Thanks for all the weight-loss tips, Tandy. This soup certainly looks and sounds both tasty and healthy, especially if I have no bread with it. 😉
It is the bread you have to ignore! Have a great weekend AD 🙂
Yes diet is such a fearsome word isn’t it! And this looks great-so creamy but not that much cream in it and I’m sure you could use less if you wanted 🙂
You could indeed use less, but to me, everything in moderation is OK 🙂
I love the flavor combinations in your fish soup. I am lactose intolerant so will have to switch up for soy milk or coconut milk and I am in. Yum!
please let me know how that works, and I am going to try it as well 🙂
Well done on the changes you have made – all very sensile. And a lovely fish soup – I adore hake!
We are so lucky to be able to get hake easily 🙂
I love fish soup. I usually make my bouillabaisse with a tomato base but your version looks very tasty!
I have not made a bouillabaisse ever so that will be something for me to try 🙂
Kudos to you and Dave for taking carbs out of your “diet”. Not sure I could do that!
Your fish soup looks and sounds scrumptious.
🙂 Mandy
Mandy, I thought I would not survive with no carbs, but I really do not miss them – and think twice about what I order when we eat out now 🙂
A healthy and wonderful soup for the seafoodies 😀
Great job my friend!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
thank you dear CCU 🙂
Looks awesome! I think Bam’s comment of subbing coconut milk sounds great too!
I think so too! I will have to have a do over 🙂
Looks delicious. I also hate the word diet, but love healthy dishes that aren’t forced. Katherine always says if you want healthy eat salmon and greens, don’t try to lighten up a lasagna.
Katherine is very wise 🙂
Well Ms Tandy, I think you are fierce (this is a good thing ;))! I couldn’t agree more, and with heart surgeons now retracting their former position on whole foods, including meat – and fat! – it really is the only way to go! When you respect your body and see processed foods for the poison that they are, your body returns the love! And you are looking great, I must say 🙂
Thank you my friend! The compliment is returned 🙂
That is wonderful Tandy, good for you! 🙂
thanks BJB 🙂
Looks and sounds delicious!
Well done on your diet 😉
thank you so much Tok 🙂
I agree, this is a grand & appetizing soup for a rainy day! But I could eat soup in any wether, daily! 🙂
Some weekends all I want is a comforting bowl of soup 🙂
Hi Tandy, We eat very similar to the two of you and when we have our pasta, potatoes and rice they are all the more special. If you want a snack in our house it is nuts…that is it. Dessert is only for when we go to a restaurant if then. My husband just got his test results from his annual physical and every thing was great! I love the sound of the fish soup with both mustard and curry.
That is so great when the hard work in eating healthily pays off!
I love the fish soup! So healthy and scrumptious! And curry powder too!! yummy!! How are you Tandy?? I need to hear about your trip!! Pictures tooo!!! 😀
hello sweetie! I am trying to get the photo’s sorted out and then I will share my lovely holiday!
Yum! Great that you linked in, thanks. have a good one
you too Carole 🙂