Lazuzu's stuff

First I stopped at the asian market. Kabocha was bountiful. please look at how cute the baby kabocha are.

Next was the fish. It would’ve been like $40 for the whole salmon. That thing was like a meter long. It would have been wayyyy too much for this recipe and my brother didn’t want to clean and gut a fosh tonight so I got the carcass for $7. No head though 😔

Fish stock time!! Most salmon stock recipes said to simmer it about 30 minutes so that’s what I did. I don’t have a mesh colander so I used a regular plastic strainer over a mesh splash guard and strained it directly into the dutch oven I made the rest of the soup in. Stock turned out well! I picked the meat off the cooked bones and dropped it into the soup, so less meat than my usual recipe.

I just want to show off this mortar and pestle I thrifted for $9 this past summer

This is the goat cheese. The charcuterie shop only had one firm goat cheese. Def the most expensive item, $13 for 0.5lb 💀 The firmer cheese didn’t melt into the soup as well as the chèvre, but it did get gooey and left little bites of cheese to discover amongst the rest of the soup.

^ This is technically the “good soup” which is just fish + pumpkin

Finished soup!! Less stock made it extra thick and creamy. I don’t blend my soups because I don’t own a blender and neither does the yeti.

A lot of people had trouble finding boxed fish stock, so I’m glad I can recommend making it from scratch! It was pretty easy and it gave me something to do while the kabocha was baking. In total I spent almost exactly $25 and I had everything else. pretty good deal for 6ish portions!