Carrot Ginger Soup

Have I ever showed you our outhouse?

Thank goodness we now have a very different usage for it.

I dragged myself outside on this gorgeous day to reluctantly deal with the carrots before the first frost comes. I don’t like growing carrots because you have to thin them out when they are tiny sprigs, and that takes forever. So I didn’t do it.

But my husband insisted, saying how fun it will be for the kids.

It all doesn’t look very promising.

It isn’t very promising.

Yet I was the one who had to get them all out of the ground.

Where is my husband who promised to take care of this? Working! Where are the children who are supposed to have “so much fun?” At the Centre!

So I have to be the one to interrupt my third reading of Jane Austen’s “Persuasion” in order to do it. The injustice of it all.

This is half the batch in their first bath to get the majority of the mud off.

And this is what still awaits me.

Seriously? Okay, compost time.

And now I will spend the majority of my afternoon peeling teensy eensy carrots for the soup. And then I will stop complaining. Like right now. These carrots actually smell really good.

You need 2 lbs or 1 kilo. This is about 8 large carrots for all you normal people who go to the store to get your vegetables.

And then you need 2 medium onions (or 3 small ones), a clove of garlic and a piece of ginger. You can use between 1 and 2 Tablespoons of ginger minced, according to taste.

Sauté that in 2 Tablespoons of olive oil.

Chop up the carrots that are not teensy eensy

and throw that in with 6 cups of water & 2 chicken (or vegetable) bouillon cubes.

And then we stray from the standard recipe. A Tablespoon of orange juice. I juiced one small clementine.

½ teaspoon paprika

and ½ teaspoon nutmeg.

Bring the soup to a boil, and then cover it and allow it to simmer for one hour.  

When it’s done, you’ll need to add a cup of heavy cream. Cream again.

I know. I have a problem.

Blend your soup to smithereens. No chunks acceptable on this one.

You can probably do without if you’re trying to cut down on salt, but I found a half-teaspoon of salt made it just perfect.

Well nearly perfect. A teaspoon (or cube) of sugar too. Now it’s perfect.

Perfect, perfect, perfect.

Now if only my favorite president will win today, everything really will be perfect for me.

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