Well I was cleaning out the vegie drawer by making soup and as there are no vegetarians in the house this week, I thought what the heck, and chucked in some bacon. Then I remembered I was out of chicken stock paste, so I thought, it's not vegetarian soup so I chucked in some chicken stock cubes . . . YUCK!! What was I thinking? Why didn't I use vege concentrate? When I first made the vege stock paste I thought it was very bland but now having read many, many posts about it, I add heaps more veg and less salt and keep it in the freezer and I think my tastebuds have adjusted to prefer the more subtle natural flavours. While I used to prefer to make real chicken stock pre-thermomix days, I certainly had no problem using the odd stock cube when I ran out, but I can't believe now that this just tastes so artificial and YUCK!!
On the bright side, just been to Dandenong market and have bought some chicken thighs and some beautiful fresh vegies (SOOO much nicer than what I get on the island
), so more stock paste is on the way!
