Well, I decided to just go with it. I had found a few recipes on making sake lees soup and kinda worked around that concept. So far so good {read: Haven't gone blind yet.} and it tastes pretty good too. A little sweeter than I would normally like a soup, but...
Anyways, here is how I did it if anyone wants to give it a shot...
For the lees, I siphoned out the JAO to get three liters from a gallon jug with about half a pint mason jar. So there was still a bit of mead left in the jar as I was trying not to get any of the floaty or sinky stuff. Yes, both technical terms. So then I squeezed the oranges into the lees letting the pulp bits fall off tossing the rind and pith into the compost bin. I then strained it through cheese cloth and squeezed the heck out of it to get as much fluid as I felt like getting out of the mushy stuff. Another technical term. Then I had set that aside while I looked for a recipe. When I came back it had separated, so after sipping some of the mead off the top I mixed it back together.
2 cans of veggi broth
1 can of water
1 can corn with water
1 cup of the previously described lees
1 1/2 cups carrots cut into disks
4 garlic cloves
1/2 medium onion
1 cup dry cooked rice
1 cup chopped up green bean/pea pods from the garden
Salt and pepper to taste
I started with making the dry rice. I like doing it this way cause it can still soak up flavor from the broth, but doesn't take away all the broth you have. I measure out about 1 3/4 cup of water, maybe a bit more I'm not overly exact, and bring to boil with some salt in the water. Then add 1 cup of dry rice and turn heat down to 1 or 2 on the stove and leave it covered for 25-30 minutes {Till all the water is gone}.
While the rice is going I put the 2 cans of broth, can of water, and corn water into a medium pot along with the garlic crush and cut up a bit and the onions chopped up to about the size of the corn kernels. Bring to boil and let simmer for about 15 to 20 minutes. I kept skimming the foam off cause it looked funky, but that's just me.
I then added the carrots and corn to the mix and let it simmer till the carrots were almost to the texture I wanted. I like them still snappy but not quite crunch. This took about 12 minutes for me.
I then added the green bits and the lees to the mix and let go for 5 min or so while I answered the phone. Wife called so I couldn't just not answer. Then I added the rice and salt and pepper, covered, and turned down to medium heat and let sit for 10 min or so.
So yeah, like I said, it's pretty good and I'm on my second small bowl and still not blind, throwing up, or delusional... at least I don't think I'm delusional... Your all midget violet furry elephants... right???
