Soup…liquid love
Soup is all I want right now. I made a big batch of chicken noodle soup for the men and curried rice and vegetable soup for me and I’m content to eat it twice a day. Toast is also quite appealing, as is ginger ale over ice. Thank god we’re all on winter holiday and we have no where to go and nothing to do. Hours are literally swirling down the drain as we lounge about on the couch, surfing the internet, reading the paper, or playing mindless games. Of course we have managed to dress ourselves and go out to the movies; we saw Sweeny Todd and No Country For Old Men and loved them both for entirely different yet vaguely similar reasons.
Chicken soup needs no recipe, just homemade stock (the stock was in the freezer), noodles, and fresh chopped parsley.
Curried rice and vegetable soup
Printable version here
1 tbsp butter
1 onion diced
1 russet potato peeled and diced
1 acorn squash peeled and diced
1 carrot, peeled and diced
1 can coconut milk
1 quart chicken stock
1 quart water
1 cup jasmine rice
1 tablespoon Penzeys Hot Curry powder, madras style
In a large pot melt the butter over medium heat and add the onion. Cook until tender. Add the curry powder stir into the onions and allow it to heat up. Add the water, stock, potato, squash, and carrot. Cook until tender. Add the rice and cook until tender. Add the coconut milk and allow it to heat through. Serve with basil and plain yogurt.
8 Responses to “Soup…liquid love”
1 JEP 30 December 2007 @ 7:02 pm
Loved the title of this post! Happy New Year…I look forward to reading your blog in 2008!
2 MadLisa 30 December 2007 @ 8:01 pm
That’s funny, the husband and I had leftover chicken and winter squash curry this evening , with many of the same ingredients! We love Penzey’s hot curry. When the kids are eating with us, I usually use half sweet and half hot and then husband & I sprinkle on extra of the hot. It is definitely that kind of weather. We also canned a lot of turkey stock we made from the Thanksgiving carcass, so a noodle soup may be n the menu soon too…
3 vanessa 30 December 2007 @ 9:16 pm
JEP, thank you so much and happy new year to you too.
MadLisa, oh, that turkey was so good. I wish I had a sandwich right now. Happy New Year to you and your family.
4 Lisa (Homesick Texan) 31 December 2007 @ 12:45 pm
I love that you added hot curry powder to your soup–I bet that extra oomph does wonders in clearing out your sinuses. Hope y’all feel better soon! Happy new year, Vanessa!
5 Trig 1 January 2008 @ 6:27 am
Happy New Year Vanessa to you, Dave, Dexter and Alex. Maybe we’ll see you in Barcelona some time in 2008?
6 vanessa 1 January 2008 @ 9:47 am
Lisa, thank god for curry. Happy New Year.
Trig, We’ll be in Paris in late March but we won’t be able to get to Barcelona. Happy New Year to you too. Say hi to your dad for us.
7 Ros 1 January 2008 @ 3:38 pm
I totally adore noodles in soup and your curried soup sounds awesome too. The coconut milk sounds great in it.
I haven’t made soup in ages- I guess i’m just too hungry most days because I often end up skipping lunch becuase of my job now. One day i should try and find time to do soup as a starter.
8 jordan 16 January 2008 @ 2:35 pm
soup is a liquid love! lol! great post. I am cooking this again this weekend. I will let you know how it turns out!
Leave a Reply