Some soups are born great, and others have greatness thrust upon them. Some soups, just by their very name conjure up visions of exotic countries, opulence or (...)
Summer is here, with all the associated trappings - my hay fever playing up again, the English guy losing at Wimbledon (or has he gone back to being Scottish (...)
On Saturday, I attended what seems to be rapidly becoming an annual tradition - Trafalgar Day (It must be a real thing, it's got its own wikipedia page...) (...)
It's Autumn. I know this because it is 6p.m. and it's dark. It's also raining. And Strictly is back on the telly. All signs point to the Vernal Equinox being (...)
Here's a little known and rather sad fact. Mr Ed, the talking horse (of course) was often said to have been made to talk by having peanut butter smeared on his (...)
Last Tuesday it was pancake day, and someone on twitter asked me why I wasn't making pancake soup. A few thoughts went through my mind - the first of which was (...)
There's an age-old debate in soup-making circles - where is the line between Soup and Stew? It is fought over as much as 'What constitutes a proper pie?*' and (...)
Today we hit Chad. Not the South African Swimmer Chad le Clos (His Dad was brilliant, wasn't he?) and not a hanging chad (whatever they are) but the central (...)
Still waiting for the summer to appear, this week, I'm craving comfort food. Whist thinking about this, I started to crave tinned soup, so off to the (...)
First off, let me apologise for there being no soup recipe last week - possibly the first time I've ever missed a post (but not really - it seems I've missed (...)
Stocafi and barbajuan - olympic food challenge monaco
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This is it, the last ever Olympic Food Challenge entry, I promise. Now the challenge is over, the Olympics and Paralympics are over and done with, I can give (...)
Cheese. It's a serious business. And we here at Soup Manors eat more cheese at Christmas than at any other time of the year. Mainly because we do nothing but (...)
I was telling someone I that I was thinking about putting up a mushroom soup recipe on the blog, and they said that you couldn't beat a tin of Mushroom soup (...)
Week two of what my crack team of lawyers are telling me to avoid calling 'Around the world in 80 soups' - not because Jules Verne might sue, but because it's (...)
I remember the first soup I ever learned to make, when I was about 12 in Home Economics lessons at school. The teacher didn't actually teach us how to make it, (...)
Beetroot. You can just tell that anything that brightly coloured has GOT to be packed full of goodness, vitamins and E numbers. No wait, I'm pretty sure that (...)
So, because I like to have themes on the blog (mainly as it's a good way to get inspiration for new soup recipes), welcome to Polish Month on Soup Tuesday!I (...)
So it was my birthday at the weekend. Whereas normal people get Xboxes or new shirts, Mrs Soup bought me a sausage making machine. When I tore the wrapping (...)
We are mad for wild garlic here at Soup Tuesday. The wild garlic, chorizo and black pudding soup has proven to be one of our most popular recipes, and as we (...)
Christmas pudding easy recipe with quick preparation
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Here is my super-easy Christmas pudding recipe. For some reason people assume that Christmas pudding is difficult to make and takes ages - the prep time on (...)
Today we have our 3rd guest blogger, the wonderful Ms. Ella Rose, and yes, she's on twitter too, so why not give her a shout and a smile @missellarose. This is (...)
Just when I thought it was all over, they pulled me back in... It seems that not all the countries allocated to the various bloggers as part of the Olympic (...)
Last night I cooked a meal for my parents, which even at my age is a fairly terrifying prospect. There was a lot of stressing over what to cook, how to cook it (...)
Well, this week's Weekly Bake Off bake turned out to be sheer torture! We are meeting up with friends this evening for a regular music-related activity, and (...)
This recipe is one of my girlfriend's favourites. I never really 'got' blue cheeses until just recently - I blame it on a saturday job when I was a teenager (...)