...Fall on my footsteps.

 

It is soup season again..I make stock when I have chicken and soups..some stock I reserve for J's risottos..s good.

So this carrot soup is a staple here..

La Recette

I small onion chopped

2 cloves of garlic chopped

4 large carrots cut in equal slices and peeled

Sauté all this in one TBSP butter and one TBSP olive oli

At this point you can add  some grated ginger 

Cover your sautéed veggies with stock..just above that level.

Simmer until everything is soft.

I use an immersion blender and blend and blend.

Smooth smooth smooth

Season with salt and pepper

A dash of hot sauce

About one tbsp maple syrup.

Taste Taste taste. If it's bland..enhance:)Never eat something that is not very good.

unless you have to lol

You can add some cream or milk .

Honestly it needs very little of either but I do soften with some 10% cream.Again,very little.

So easy.

If you want to jujje a carrot soup up a bit..this is my fancy fave.

Carrot Ginger soup with coconut shrimp.

A favored one by my family.

Don't underestimate flower frogs for whimsical cosmos bouquet

or any other:)

I saw a cute photo of Max with his girlfriend after a game taken by someone in her family..

Immortalized now with a little watercolor.

Young love:)

PS I made these banana choco chip muffins..so good..

I added a splash  of oil..and sugar in the raw crusted top.

Here you go...You can find the recipe here

Yummy.

Just read the comments:)

My dahlias are still so very very plentiful and beautiful.

Grateful.

My bok choy from Susan

Is beautiful.. Like dahlia blooms under organza hats I have finally been able to grow Bok Choy..under a tunnel.A mesh hooped tunnel my friend bought me at Dollarama (Nothing is 1 dollar).

I have started harvesting it for  inclusion in recipes.. and just sautéed with roasted sesame oil and garlic.

The leaves are starting to change.I did put the gardens that house the small mini pond to bed as our maples drop a boatload of leaves and I can't blow them out with all the ground cover.So..I nearly shaved that garden and even shaved all the ground cover..time will tell.

In doing that I see all the things that should not be there..too hard to shovel prune..A painted fern that grew to gargantuan size was murder to take out.

4 tarps full of cuttings and hydrangeas..

Spring and Fall..

All the work.

PS Anonymous  dug in deep again.I am leaving her comment here for all to see..subsequent ones will be removed. I can't keep up a ridiculous diatribe.