The fall is really here! No leaves are quite turning color just yet, but the days and nights are cold – especially the nights – and overcast. Such a lack of light. Andy just recovered from a cold and now I have it. Plus, it’s a bit depressing. September has some difficult anniversaries and besides that, this year I can hardly stand listening to the news or reading Facebook. Perhaps after the election things will be better.
In the meantime, to what do I turn? Soup! I made a great vegetable soup a few days ago, the clean up your kitchen fridge sort of soup, and today I need to cook another one. I usually begin by sauteing an onion, chopped celery and carrots, cabbage and chopped peppers. When they are beginning to caramelize I add a generous spoon of salt and some black peppercorns and lots of water….Then beans, dry and green beans if I have them, radishes, cauliflower, chopped parsley at the end. I don’t add any bouillon because it really is not necessary and I won’t add tomatoes, either because I’ve been eating them separately. If I were only making this for myself it would have meat in it, but my son is a serious vegetarian so there is none.
Soup, a good book or movie and lots of rest. I hope things are better in a few days!
This is not my soup, but looks a lot like it….Yes, mine has potatoes in it. When one is sick it is not a time to worry overmuch about carbs. I remember the old saying, “Feed a cold and starve a colic”.
September soup sounds scrumptious!
Thanks, Kay! If you lived nearer I would invite you over to share some. Well, after I didn’t feel quite so contagious!
I would live nearer, I’d “happen to be” walking by your house just as you were getting the soup ready đ
I love soups but very rarely make them myself. Maybe I should change that.
It’s a lot more autumn-like here already; sunny days, but cold nights and mornings, and colour beginning to show on trees and bushes. A beautiful month September has been this year. My saddest anniversary is in November.
Yes! Make soup, Meike….It is easy and delicious and so healthy and comforting….I am sorry for your sad anniversary. It’s nine years since Paul died and not the overwhelming grief of the first years, but I don’t believe one really “gets over” such events. Friday will be my wedding anniversary and after that things do get better. I will be thinking of you in November.
Sounds good to me. Course, not being a vegetarian, I’d have to toss in some chicken and chicken broth. I love potatoes in my soup in addition to a few noodles. Guess that I really like carbs! Hope that that old cold is taking a hike.
Andy’s gone for two weeks in Europe, so I’m eating chicken soup now!
I just made soup this morning, desperate to clean out the freezer – I seem to have the energy to cook in the mornings, but by the end of the day, none. So I ate breakfast before making my soup, and now I have it all ready for tonight. đ
God bless you as you adjust to the new season. May God comfort you!
Thank you so much, Gretchen…God bless you, too….And enjoy that soup!
Did I miss the memo? Were you taking October off? Sometimes I do. When I read your comment about your memories of losing the elms, I felt such a pang. I remember sitting on the front lawn of my church under one of those giant trees. I prayed most fervently for God to heal it. He didn’t. Still, every now and then, I see a familiar tall tree and, sure enough, it is an elm standing all alone on the edge of a field spared, probably because of its isolation from the others. So this memory of losing these grand trees must be a collective sorrow. Currently, it’s a blight on the conifers in my corner. I can’t imagine the evergreens going down in Maine for goodness sake! And all this from a gal who enjoys the view framed by the trees. Balance in all things.
I am so sorry to hear about a blight on conifers in Maine…Oh, I hope very much that it is not so terrible. They are so beautiful, and such a great contrast for the glorious fall colors.
I love soup and now you’re making me want to have a bowl too!