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We are at the cabin and I have just been out to harvest the first rhuburbs. While looking for a special rhuburb soup recipe I found this old post from May 2009:
A love story between rhuburb and red chilli
The rhuburb stalks have grown alot since we were here a few weeks ago, and it was time to make the first rhuburb soup of this year. Close by the rhuburb plant grows a lemon scented melissa, and I decided to use a handful of leaves in the soup.
Then I remembered: "I have a few red chillis in the kitchen. May be I shoud add a couple. Woudn't that be perfect for a soup for Terje and me during our week-end alone?" Is seducing the correct word :-)
Cut the rhuburb and let it boil with chopped melissa, quite some time to make a smooth soup. Add sugar. Cut one to two red chillis, remove the seeds and chop finely. Let it all simmer. The different fragrances need to get to know each other.
I made the soup several hours before we ate, and after a while removed most of the small pieces of chilli. I wanted the hot taste to be a surprise for Terje, and as it now was hot enough there were no use of them any more.
Believe me - the soup was even better than I could imagine....... in all ways.
How do you use chilli? Do you have any tempting, seducing recipes to share?