Trying a bit more of this cooking lark

[Nannysally99]

It was OK Bren, I think apart from being a little thick it needed something else to lift it. Going to try again with a touch of garlic

Try adjusting your salt and pepper as well, I find I always gave to put a tad more in once cooked

[skeggijon]

The thing is to keep tasting as you go and adjust flavours accordingly. If its too thick there's nothing wrong with adding more stock.
Never treat a recipe as a rigid set in stone end product. See it more as a base to start from. The exciting thing for me when cooking is finding a simple recipe and seeing how far I can take it with my own ingredients

[Patchninja]

For soup, the quality of the stock is important. You can make a great-tasting veggie stock by simmering 2carrots cut up, 1 onion quartered with skin on, 1 potato chunked, 1 celery stalk chopped, 2 or 3 cloves garlic, 10 to 20 parsley stems, 2 Tbls olive oil, s&p.
Simmer with 1 &/é litres water for30 mins. Check for seasoning. you can add other things for deeper flavour but this is a good starter recipe.