I meant to post this late yesterday evening, but the Sapphire worm took effect just as I started working on it. I added the Food
category, and then when I came back to write my new entry, it seemed like I couldn't get any response from the server. I thought about emailing Kevin about it, but I decided that he'd find out soon enough on his own; in the morning I woke up and heard on NPR that there was this huge worm going around, clogging up internet traffic. I was glad I hadn't told him, because he has enough worries already, without me going around asking him to fix the Internet.
Right, this soup I was telling you about. I got 2 pounds of carrots a few weeks ago, because I wanted to make black bean soup, and the recipe called for a couple of carrots. I made that recipe, and I ate a few individual carrots too, but by and large these carrots were going nowhere fast. I decided I needed to get rid of them, so I looked in the Joy of Cooking for carrot recipes, and lo and behold, there was a recipe for cream of carrot soup. The recipe called for a pound and a half of carrots, and by supreme coincidence, that was exactly what I had! I made the soup yesterday evening, and it was very easy to make, although it took about 2 hours, which is kind of the expected time for me to cook a meal. I'm very slow, probably because I read the recipe about every 45 seconds.
I think the soup turned out pretty well, or at least I can't find anything exactly wrong with it, except that it's carrot soup. I don't like cooked carrots very much. They're nice raw, but I can barely stand them cooked. I also don't think I like them very much on their own. Since carrot soup was what I had, it was what I ate for dinner last night, but I can't say that I enjoyed it all that much. I think I would like it better as an appetizer than as a main course.
This afternoon I am planning to make chili again. Chili takes a good while to make, at least for me, but one batch is enough to keep me fed for a couple of weeks, so it evens out.
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