12: Meat and vegetable soup (Page 401, AFJ)

This was a very disappointing recipe/result. Tessa Kiros describes this recipe as "nutritious and tasty soup". I do think it's nutritious, but for me there just was not enough taste. It tasted mostly of broth with vegies and meat in it. Although I added the salt and pepper, I felt the blandness is more to do with the simplicity of the flavour than the actual taste. I found it very uninspiring and struggled to finish it. The best part of the meal was the bread, I think this says a lot about a meal.

It took 2 hours to complete and you'd think after waiting so long to eat I'd be less picky, but apparently not. So far this has been my least favourite recipe. I think it needed more spices to give it some variety in the flavour. Nigella's minestrone soup was way better in comparison.