Chickpeas have a gentle taste and go well with pretty much any vegetable, but I used what was on hand — carrots, celery and some canned diced tomato — to add a little color and body to the broth.
All of which is quite charming, and, as folks flounder in spilt blood in the sick bay, you wonder if Scott, who will be eighty this year, is deliberately mocking the maxim that old age should be the era of gentle tastes.
To get the best results, use one of the common Lavandula angustifolia varieties, because they have the warmest, gentlest taste; and use both flowers and leaves.
To drink: I'm never sure about the wisdom of drinking anything with soup – liquid and liquid somehow don't work – but try the soft texture and gentle lemon taste of Tesco Finest Gavi 2008 (£6.99, on offer at £4.99 until 13 July; 12.5% abv).
And to drink, a gentle-tasting but fully potent punch made with Cognac, maraschino, lime and nutmeg.
Under the gentle overhead fans it tastes bright, satisfying, exciting.
It delivers a taste of gentle maturity to a dish.
But in recent years there's been a gentle sea change of taste, and now there is a greater interest in tapestries.
He was a loveable revolutionary, with a taste for gentle self-mockery, even of his most serious beliefs - certainly one of Arnold Bennett's natural "cards".
And you can rely on their mellow taste and gentle aroma to bring welcome variation to salads, build flavour in soups and make a perky last-minute garnish for savoury dishes.
Taste buds were harvested into fire-polished glass pipettes and were dissociated by gentle trituration to collect single taste cells [27].
