It's so cold!! Let's have soup..

Happy New Year! I know it is late, but this is my first post back here since Christmas and I do hope you all have a lovely 2013.

I am not going to back track over the last month or so, I have had some lovely dinners, but most of the loveliest will be made again, so you can see them then. For now, I thought you might like some soup ideas.

firstly, Mushroom and Chestnut lightly blended with some chopped gammon added in at the end.

The same soup, but unblended with large pieces of mushroom and chestnuts.

Another unblended soup, a simple leek and English dried broad beans, made with the stock from cooking a gammon hock, and with some of the meat added in shreds at the end end.