The Soup Queen

I'm going to link you to a deliciously simple seaweed soup by Patrica because her version is absolutely yummy! And so easy to prepare. Head on over to her blog and try it out. Besides that, she has other equally fun and easy recipes too. Check them all out! I shall be back with regular blogging in the next 2 days... In case you wanna know my versions, it's the 3-minute soup here and kelp soup here .

Discovered how to make a new soup this time during my travel back to my husband's hometown of Kuching, Sarawak. He used to tell me that his favourite soups were seaweed soups. I always thought seaweed was seaweed until I tried kelp. It's not that I have not heard of kelp before. I had a bad experience a few years back when I tried cooking soup with kelp. It turned out rubbery and to this day, I call it my Tyre Soup because it looked like rubber! Also, it could be that the kelp was "old" and tough. So this time around, mom-in-law cooked kelp soup and it tasted very much different from mine. In fact, the kelp wasn't rubbery at all. It was soft but still had a bite to it. Kelp is called 'hai dai' in Chinese or 'kombu' in Japanese. Like most seaweeds, this is a nutrient-packed ingredient . In Kuching, it is sold in dried strips. It is cheap too at RM1.90 per packet. Remember that a little kelp goes a long way as it expands during cooking. We made the m...