I have declared this to be soup week! My final year in college, R's roommates & Abby & I all took turns cooking dinner, family-style. We would often have theme weeks to keep things interesting, but I don't think we ever had a soup week, so I decided we should have one now. Monday night was french onion soup. Tuesday was toasted ham & cheese sandwiches with roasted red pepper & tomato bisque (not homemade). Last night we used up the rest of the duck & the bones in Chinese duck soup, which was pretty good, but again not delicious enough to justify the effort. Tonight we're using up some wintery ingredients that need to be eaten with Chestnut & persimmon soup- it's vegan! Other good soups we've made this winter include a soba & miso bowl with whatever random greens were still growing in the garden, and a coconut milk curry soup with noodles & baby corn. Mmm, soup is good!
I haven't gotten much knitting done lately- I'm a few rows from finishing the cardigan, but still don't have buttons, so that's not very motivating. I really need to work on my Aunt's shawl, but lace is not something I really enjoy (even though I got a good idea from Knitting in Plain English to make a mini-book out of the pattern instructions to keep from losing my place). It's not far enough along to show a good picture, so here 
I went to the dentist on Tuesday to replace an old root canal filling with a crown. I spent nearly 2 hours there, being drilled, prodded, scraped, and having forms full of gross-tasting putty shoved into my mouth, ugh. But the tooth will be better off now, and less fragile. They gave me nitrous, which I had only ever used before when my wisdom teeth were extracted, it was kind of strange.
The current weather is what we call "The Season of Nick;" that part of every winter where it's gorgeous and warm and sunny during the day but frigid at night. It's so warm in the afternoons that one could sit outside and read or knit in a tank top (if only I didn't have to work!), but as soon as the sun starts to dip down the horizon, the temperatures drop quickly to near-freezing. It was beautiful this morning to sip a cup of tea and look out the kitchen window over white-coated roofs to the fog rolling up the slough and golden sunlight bathing the trees. I hope you are enjoying whatever this winter is bringing you, and can appreciate nature's varied beauty!
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I discovered a few years ago that soup is easy to make from scratch and that if you start with some kind of base you can really throw in whatever you want. Once this fall I made soup with chicken broth, a bunch of leftover napa cabbage shredded, green onions, spices, and frozen ravioli! It was pretty good.
Who is Nick? Is he warm and friendly the day and then frigid at night?
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Funny, I've been having kind of a soup winter. I've made a large pot of soup almost every week, beginning with the curried butternut squash, a leek potato ham and a split pea and ham, turkey noodle, of course, and this past week a very big throw-in-all-the-leftovers vegetable soup. Makes life so much easier!
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