Hi! i just wanted to thank you, because my dad died of cancer a few days ago, but he got to see this video. And he wasnt able to eat, but he liked watching you picking berries and making food, or finding cool things at a beach. And I used to watch them with him. Thank you for giving him a good experience even though he couldn’t eat.

"Veg Bones" made me giggle a bit. With regards to washing lentils - it's more important when you're making something that's mostly lentil such as daal. Means you don't have to deal with as much scum which can boil over or become burned on to the pot and make it a pain to clean. When it comes to a lower ratio of lentils like this, it doesn't matter too much.

My household is feeling poorly at the moment, and this gave me a great idea for supper. Cheers, Mr. Shrimp!

cant wait for a new budget challenge. Maybe with 3 Pound or 5 pound daily budget, would be very interesting !

I love that a channel like this can get such great viewership.

Thank you! This was just what I needed. Not because I am in need of soup, but it was a relaxing video to come home to after a traffic accident, I'm still finding glass chards in my hair. I'm okay, nobody got seriously hurt, I just had some glass particles in my left eye that have been rinsed out. It was just a case of passing eachother to closely and the driver of the other vehicle going to fast (a bus and the driver didn't even notice (s)he drove into us, the police are tracking the driver down). The car on the other hand is not okay. I just wish people would slow down a bit during winters. Just wanted you to know that you are a person that makes people calm down.

Brilliant tip for getting the dregs out of the tomato paste tube. One of those 'why didn't I think of that' ideas.

That did look like a mighty soup. I don't have a pressure cooker, but I do have a slow cooker, so my soups take all day "blipping away" - it all works out the same, I just have to wait longer 😄

Comfort food. Lovely with a thick chunk of freshly baked bread too, although I'm sure it was already filling without that.

Mr shrimp! You bring a true beauty to the most mundane. You remind us all that even in life's chores and generally underwhelming tasks once can find love and appreciation in doing it well and with care. Thank you Mike!

Hello Mike. I just want to say thank you for making videos. I dont have a lot of good days these yares... My helth is poor so I cant make videos as often I would want or enjoy life to it's fullist... but when I watch your videos it gaves me peace. So thank you for everything you do and I hope you and your familie have a helthy and happy 2024! Mare from Slovenia

My goodness I remember when you were a wee channel and now you're looking straight at a million subscribers. It's well deserved, I'm so glad you've caught on.

I do this with my old veg too. I call it Fridge Bottom Soup. Hope you and Jenny had a very Merry Christmas.

That is basically what I call "Fridge Soup". Basically anything getting old or almost used up goes into the pot. Also lentils, barley, beans, you name it and often leftover meat. Some of the best ones I ever made are from the odds & ends. As thick as yours is I call Stoup.( Stew and Soup). I like a bit of L&P sauce and soy sauce for extra flavor, as I often use potatoes which need the extra salt. Good video.

I made soup this week too with Turkey carcass/leftovers, parsnip, Celeriac, Carrots, and onion. I even chucked the remains of the cranberry sauce jar into the mix. I also used a small amount of stock from a slow cooked gammon. Added some double cream, and blended to a nice creamy smooth soup. Hope my old man eats more of the soup than he did the Dinner I cooked for him. I'll find out tomorrow I guess. Thankyou Shrimp for giving me inspiration over the years on how to be creative with very little.

I'm always amazed at the versatility of soups/stews. It can literally be a case of throwing a bunch of random things that need to be used before they go bad in a big pot of boiling water, but it almost always turns into a hearty, nutritious, and filling meal that's easy on the budget. It's part of the reason why I love the traditional fall/winter soup season.

Another frickin amazing video. Mike never misses

The “veg bones” made me chuckle. Thank you for this relaxing video. Like someone said, you really do bring out the beauty of the mundane that I quite enjoy.

I'm a little ashamed to say I watched one of your last soup videos (the 'mix-and-match' one) many tens of times. Something about its simplicity makes it a great distraction when I need one. This video is a lovely new substitute for that! Thanks Shrimp.

Soup is always good. This was yet another lovely food video. I'm still so glad I found your channel ☺

Your cooking videos are admirable tbh. 👍🏻

Thank you for another quiet video. Best wishes for you, Jenny, and all your loved ones, for 2024.

“Soup, soup…a tasty soup, soup” Immediately sprang to mind when I saw the thumbnail! The Mighty Boosh has a lot to answer for 😂

There is something about dishes like this that I really didn't appreciate when I was younger, but now this video makes my mouth water. I learned to love a good soup/stew.

Looked fantastic. I think the best thing I learned though was that trick with the rolling pin for the tube of tomato paste. Nice!

Came for the scambaiting. Stayed for the soup. And all the other bits. Thank you so much for another year of fascinating, eclectic entertainment!

I’m home from college for the holidays. Made soup and sat down and ate it with my dad while watching this video. It was a cozy way to pass 12 minutes, thank you Mr. Shrimp.

I hadn't thought of using a rolling pin on a tube like that. Great idea!

Watching you make this soup was like watching myself making the soup. Everything you did was the stuff I would do: getting the last gasp out of the tube of purée, deglazing the tray, freezing scraps for stick and composting the rest. No waste, just goodness!

That is definitely my type of soup. Heaps of veg, some grain/pulses, no recipe - yum!

Some of my ancestors would have put a jar of sour cream on the table, some a few slices of bread, serving soup on its own would have been seen as "stingy" in their community. Sour cream also helps mitigate spicy heat.

Got inspired by this and ended up with a really nice pasta fried finely diced shallots with some ginger, removed from the pan but keep the oil next I diced up leftover broccoli stem and fennel into small bits and fried it off. Thought it could use some garlic so fried a fine dice too of a clove. After that, kept the oil and veggies, boiled some spaghetti in the same pot i fried in, strained the water but then added everything back in for a quick mix. The garlic and shallots keep that nice familiar base while the ginger and fennel really pair well and make the dish warm.

Today is my birthday, and I'm sipping whisky and doing my prep work for the pork loin roast I'll be making. Slicing carrots into thin rounds, dicing potatoes, chopping a giant onion into small slivers that will almost melt in the pressure cooker, adding a touch of gochujang for a bit of kick with some cabbage for color and texture. Watching you make this amazing veggie soup is the perfect thing to have playing as I do my work. May you, Jenny, and of course Eva have a wonderful New Years, sitting by the fire with a bowl of soup and some crusty bread to sop up the liquid.

When you set this video to 0.25x speed, AtomicShrimp sounds like he's nursing a very bad hangover

I mean honest with you I don't think I've made a single Atomic shrimp soup recipe but I've made many Atomic shrimp inspired recipes everybody loves my vegetable soup now thanks for being a great inspiration

Love your videos. Thanks to you, today i tried wierd stuff in a can. Marshmallow fizzy can drink. Very marshmallow flavor and nice fizzing. Wife got the reference as well so thanks for the good ideas :)

honestly this is probably the most important 'recipe' i learned when i first started cooking. if it's the end of the week or you have stuff that needs using up then you can dump basically anything into a soup and it'll end up tasting pretty good

I love homemade soup 🥣 & so easy to make 🤗Thanks Atomic shrimp 🦐😋

I genuinely have to thank you. I have always been a relatively conscientious cook when it comes to using all available parts of my food, but watching your content (especially the budget challenges) has made me rethink my strategies even more. It has now become a running joke between me and my boyfriend for how little waste I can have after I cook, and I'm starting to buy ingredients with multiple uses in mind! I didn't want a traditional Thanksgiving this year, so we had pulled pork. I was going to just get a cheap, lean cut, but I saw another cut that was a bit larger, just a little more expensive, and it had this huge cap of fat on it that I could use to flavor and fry up other parts of the meal. He was laughing at me when I was all excited, pointing out this slab of fat. "Think of the possibilities~!" 😆 So truly, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for sharing these down-to-earth, approachable, and mindful methods of cooking. It's given me more to think about!

I don't generally like soup, but that looked so warm and yummy, maybe I'll give soup another chance. Be well

After a bit of over indulgence over Christmas I decided tomorrow to make a big vat of vegetable soup. Like you I tend to use whatever I have and bought some extra veg, no two soups are ever the same. I tend to blend mine but it does become a bit baby-food-ish and makes it easier for the kids to gulp down without identifying things they might think they don’t like. I do fancy making a nice chunky one like this though soon, it looks delicious! I shall be adding some lentils after watching this and I might add some bulgar wheat too and save my spuds for something else. Hope you have a great new year!

Fridge cleaning soup! My go-to in the winter for lunches for the work week. I do the same thing in the summer but I usually make salsa or a lentil picadillo. Red lentils work amazing for lentil picadillo since the lentils get really soft and gives it a nice texture.

Soup seems to be the only way I actually like eating vegetables, but I usually have to blend them all up haha. Lovely video for a nice rainy day

This style of cooking takes an inner confidence that comes naturally to some people, but can also be taught. My hope is that your viewers are learning the basis behind cooking with random bits and bobs and gaining confidence to give it a go!

"I'm not sure whether to call that a soup or a stew" I have a word. Delicious.

I'm actually using up some random veggies tonight for dinner. I'm making penne pasta with garlic, shallots, tomatoes, and spinach. :) Probably fry up a chicken breast to put in there as well.

I do this all the time. It is called summer soup. You take a big pot and throw in summer this and summer that.

knowing that I am not the only person who uses the rolling pin to get every last little bit of paste out of a tube is amazingly validating

I love you, Shrimp. Your videos have been a constant source of stress relief and fuel for my curious mind for years. Thank you for what you do.

I really like those stock cubes, they're the only ones I could find in the stores that weren't full of a lot of really weird ingredients.

My wife and i are trying for a baby at the moment and making your videos gives me inspiration for what i want to do with my (please God) future children.

It looks delicious. Will make something along those lines this week.

Grabbin a handful of things and throwing them into soup is the official way to make soup!

Of all the things you've cooked, this one has made me the most hungry. It looks so good.

Your videos are so calming

Good to see you tossing the vegetables in tomato puree directly ON the tray, I'm trying to train my partner to cook like this, he is of the school that would toss ingredients in a seperate bowl, which sometimes you end up eating out of later but usually just creates extra washing up.

I'm a 20 year old woman who loves to watch a random British guy make soup at one in the morning 😂😂😂 I don't remember when I found this channel, but I do know that it was when I was a teenager and I absolutely love it. It reminds me of watching the BBC cooking shows on PBS when I was growing up

I love cooking like that, just throwing things together and seeing what happens. Thank you for your interesting videos on the vast array of subjects. Happy New Year to you and yours 🎉

I did this during the week with left over bits from Christmas dinner...with freshly sliced sourdough bread and butter, a fine big bowl of soup...delicious

in my house, when we dont know whether to call something a soup or a stew, we call it "slop." tasty, nutritious slop

Merry Christmas and happy New Year to you, Jenny and Eva Mike!

Another modern classic, Mike. Love from Cambridge.

These videos calm me down, thanks Shrimp!

I've been very busy over November and December and realised I haven't watched an Atomic Shrimp video properly in way too long. Very nice to sit back down and come back to the same welcoming Shrimp aura

These cooking videos are very relaxing. Great vid as always

My mouth is watering! 😋 Happy New Year to you & your family!

Hope you and the family had a great Xmas and will have a great new year. Thanks as always for the content this year, looking fwd to 2024 🎉😊

Enjoyed the video, many thanks.

Thanks for the video Mike, that looks delicious. All the best for the new year to you and Jenny.

Ahh! Moms Mustgo Soup! This is great for the end of cycle fridge cleaning. Also for that bit of meat or 2 leftover chicken wings that aren't suitable for a snack. For this I like to slow and low it til it gets thick. Esp when meat or stickey starches are involved. And it's raining here so tomorrow seems the perfect time to make last sundays hot and sour soup into something awesome! Thanks Shrimp! Thrimp....

One way to get a hint of spice without using hot peppers is to add a pinch of dried dill. It's not actually hot in the same sense as chilies or pepper (completely different chemical composition), but gives a somewhat similar sensation for a moment (just in the mouth and it doesn't linger). To get just the pepper flakes aroma you can use a pinch of sweet pepper powder, just beware it will add a lot of color to the soup as well.

spooky...when i recently thought about trying to make a chutney....you then made a chutney video the day after... then i want to try soup ...and here you are with a soup video gracias Mike 😁

I like the rolling pin trick. Hope you have a good new year!

That rolling pin trick is genius

Going to say that that soup reminds me of meals of yore at my grand parents but also had neck of lamb in it.

I love everything about your channel ❤

That looks like my vegetable drawer. Boil everything for a long time, blend and add sour cream. Great.

I take very mild umbrage with "just vegetables" when you include mushrooms!

You can hardly go wrong when doing a vegetables soup.

I see we have a oneion, and twomato to work with today

Veg soups like this are the best, and different every time, depending on what you have to hand at the time. Lovely video, as always with our Shrimp.

I just want to quickly say happy holidays and happy New Year to everyone, and especially you and yours, Mr. Shrimp. I hope everyone has the best possible 2024 they can.

I wish you make more soups, love seeing your cooking videos, especially soups LOL

hi again, i enjoy the content and subjects that you present. Thanks

Just missing potatoes and dumplings.

The only problem I can see is the number of people who will now want careers as chefs inspired by you.

Another cooking video im so happy.

i love the amount of paprika added, i am an absolute fiend for paprika

Looks good, well done.

My grandma always hid the fact she used stewed tomatoes in her veggie soup for years. Was where all the flavor was.

This is wonderful. It's what my late mum would have called 'Bungit' soup. Always turned out great, too. Yours looks delicious. Thank you.

Yours is the ONLY channel I watch that does cooking with any regularity. And even though I'm an insanely picky eater, the food you make (minus _maybe_ a couple budget challenge meals) always look so fantastically delicious. 🤤

Your videos are so calming.

Love this and e specially the budget vids please do more

"veg bones" huh! Love your sense of humor mr. Mike :) I usually boil the gritful bits of veg peelings into the stock as well, and lose a little stock at the end, but I suppose not everyone's a fan of dirt.

I don’t think most folks realize it’s just that easy to make something extremely delicious. Thanks for the reminder!

I’m making veggie, rice and leftover turkey bits soup. I pressure cooked the bones from the Christmas turkey for my stock. I’ll make cornbread or cheese biscuits to go with it. Nice warming, economical meal and some for the freezer as well. Cheers!

3:28 i enjoy the term veg bones too much hahaha

It looks wonderful!

I LOVE your mushrooms jar. I'm saving the jars from my Yankee Candles for pickles ❤