Grannie’s Mildly Spicy Soup

You never know in life when you may be penniless and need to make a living somehow, you could always make a living out of this recipe!
 
 
Ingredients;
1 medium sized sweet potato
1 onion
4 cloves of garlic
2 small carrots
1 ‘long thin mild sweet red pepper’ [I will let you know the proper name when I can remember it, they are nearly 12 inches long]
1 tablesp tomato ketchup[high quality]
1 tablesp worcester sauce
1 teasp horseradish sauce
some fresh thyme
chicken stock[about 700 mls]
 
 
Peel and dice the onion, sweet potato and carrot, finely dice the sweet pepper, strip the small leaves off a few sprigs of thyme.
Fry the onion, garlic, sweet pepper and thyme together with a little olive oil until soft,add a little ground black pepper and a little sea salt, then add the ketchup and worcester sauce.
 
put the vegetables into a pot with the chicken stock and bring to the boil, add the contents of the frying pan and  simmer till tender then give them a quick whizz in a blender, return to pot and bring to desired heat, serve into pre warmed soup bowls with a side plate of best ciabbata bread and very best butter.
 
 
[Armed with that one recipe, a few crocks and a rented shack with a flashing red neon above the door and you will be in business, you need fear unemployment and the dole no more!]