When I was a pre-teen, everyone at my school went bonkers for Starsky & Hutch.
We begged our parents to let us stay up and watch it and all girls of my age either fancied Starsky or Hutch.
Same with Donny Osmond and David Cassidy, you had to state your allegiance and stick to it. For me, it was Starsky & Donny, and I wouldn’t have a word said against either of them
I am toying with the idea of a new book project with the working title of Cooking the Detectives. I’d get to watch all the classics again in the name of research – Cagney & Lacey, Burke’s Law, Nero Wolfe, my beloved Police Woman, McMillan and Wife, The Snoop Sisters etc. etc. etc. There are just SO MANY great shows. So I’m thinking about it… Here’s a soup I rustled up this week to help me ponder it. It was DELICIOUS!
Pumpkin soup always seems autumnal to me, so having some for lunch in the communal garden amongst the fallen leaves seemed totally appropriate.
As always, the most important thing about starting a new project is to buy a new notebook. In this case, I have pushed the boat out and invested in a very snazzy personalised recipe book in which to write PROPER NOTES about all the recipes I’m testing for the book.
When I proudly showed this to Mr Rathbone he said, “Why is it a K for Cooking The Detectives rather than a C?” I laughed out loud, I have no idea what brainstorm made that happen. But I love the process of jotting down notes in it when I cook something. Much better than my usual method of scribbling information on a piece of scrap paper and then never seeing it again.
So from these scribbles, I can tell you this – have some extra stock handy because this is a very thick soup so you might wish to thin it down a little bit. I also had to cook mine a little longer than the recipe stated to get the pumpkin nice and soft. Apart from that, SUPER DELICIOUS STARSKY SOUP!
What is sweet butter??!
Thinking I could try this recipe with one of my garden squash – a mystery squash/little pumpkin that has been decorating my house for the autumn. It’s less than three pounds but that’s okay.
Are you sure you don’t like Starsky just for his sweater?
I love the idea of cooking the detectives so much, I even started making a list of radio detective shows “to match” 🙂
It is snowy and cold here and I am eating too many chocolate chip-cranberry cookies.
David Cassidy!
Ah yes, I certainly fancy the young David NOW more than I fancy the young Donny. The vagaries of ageing!
Update: I made the soup. Confirm does need more liquid.
Made my own curry powder for the first time ever.
Ah VT! Home-made curry powder? Recipe please! How did the soup turn out, was it tasty? Did your little squash enjoy being made into soup?! I LOVE the idea of the radio detective shows too – maybe you could write a page for the book with some recommendations??! xx
Haha! I asked the internet what was in curry powder and then raided my cupboard, I used turmeric, ginger, cumin, nutmeg (?) (I think?) and some dry mustard. I thought about adding some cardamon but I didn’t have any already ground and didn’t want to slow down… might/should have used a bit of red chili flake as well. I wasn’t really measuring things, just taking rough teaspoons and mixing them up.
My little squash was happy to be made into soup – after I chopped it up it weighed in at just under a pound and a half so I made a half-recipe. The squash (and the turmeric) made a very nice orange coloured soup – had a bowl for supper, had a half bowl for breakfast (with some perogies in) and have a couple more servings frozen for later.
Made a big mess of the stovetop while blending it with the immersion blender. Orange soup bits all over! Recommend using a pot that’s deep not wide.
I would be super-happy to write a page for and with cooking the detectives! 🙂 🙂
Yayyyyy! Brilliant! I definitely owe you an email. I discovered a lovely long one from you hiding in my inbox recently, you’d sent it ages ago and somehow I missed it. Coming soooooon.
Mmmmmm reading the description of your soup I feel like rustling up another batch of this. Ooh, just remembered, there is a portion in the freezer! Were your pierogies homemade? I’ve always fancied having a go at making those x
I made more soooup. Now I have no more squash. But lots of squash soup!
I do not make my own perogies. I think first I should learn how to make little meat pies.
I almost tried making some last week but I chickened out. I made one big chicken pie instead! 😛
Tonight I am trying fish pie. I guess I’ve moved from soup mood to a pie-mood.
I’ve never made fish pie before but it’s exciting. And if it doesn’t work, I have squash soup!
oooh – how did the fish pie turn out? I absolutely LOVE FISH PIE – I wonder if there is a movie star fish pie recipe in the collection. One moment please… Hmm – apart from Cary Grant’s Tuna Fish Pie (which I’ve made quite a few times) I have recipes by Michael Pennington and Molly Weir – I might have a go at Molly’s! Jx
I finally finished eating the fish pie yesterday at lunch!
I was getting a bit concerned – three-day old scallop, is this okay? I know, I’ll boil it up in some squash soup!
So far so good.
I would say the recipe I was using was decent but not super exciting. I would definitely try something else! Maybe Cary Grant’s tuna pie is next for me?
I have a special fondness for Cary’s Tuna Fish Pie as it was something I made quite a few times in the early days of Silver Screen Suppers. It is though, as my friend Heather puts it, “warm pap”. Comfort food yes, something I would serve to guests? Maybe…