Wedding Soup

Eeh, you learn something new every day. Today, amongst other things, I learnt that Italian Wedding Soup is not served at Italian weddings.

Now why would that crop up on an otherwise slow Friday?

Well, a recipe (Moneybags) I was cooking for a dinner party called for Lobster Bisque as a base for the sauce. Rather than go and buy lobsters and all the faff of making the bisque myself I decided to cheat and turn to Baxter's Luxury Lobster Bisque (crys of Boo from the audience). Whilst searching for a tin of said I stumbled upon a tin of Baxter's Deli Inspired Italian Wedding Soup (not literally - it was on a shelf). Never heard of it so thought I'd try it. The seemingly endless list of ingredients include pasta, meatballs, 6 vegetables, celery, peppers, tomatoes and 7 herbs and spices.

That was lunch today and I must say it was yummy. However, as it was slightly lacking in size and quantity of the meatballs (pork and chicken) I thought that I should try to find a recipe so I could make it myself.

Google and Cha-ching.

The real name of the soup is Minestra Maritata, which can indeed be translated as Wedding Soup. However, as I discovered from Kyle Philips, the wedding involved is the marriage of vegetables with meats. His recipe has somewhat different ingredients from the Baxter's so I might try using his recipe (minus the lard) but with their ingredients.

Need to invite someone else round for dinner then. Volunteers?

Cheers,

Mikey