Off to the potluck

Today is incredibly sunny and quite hot. In a slightly frenetic action warrior way I tried to make the most of the sun and comply with the lame Sunday public transport timetable. You can see the potential need of actively staying calm and being somewhat strategic with these parameters. I watered the garden, fed the chooks, washed and hung out m clothes and sheets, gave my futon the air and sun it has been craving all winter, delivered eggs and sprouts to my friend, shared breakfast with him (see previous post), talked about our current focuses, made a plan to start 'preparation day' soon (all processed foods can be made from scratch this is more fun and productive when you do it with other people), picked lots of lemons, climbed the fence and offered lemons to my neighbours I'd never met before, made kale, carrot and coriander soup, made another sushi rendition to take to the potluck, sprayed my germinating seed trays every time I thought of it, washed my sprouts, brought futon back inside, brushed teeth, harvested flowers to take with me, put everything in a box and walked up to the bus. Almost an hour apart on Sundays, but I amazingly made the one I was shooting for with 5 minutes to spare, waiting in the hot sun. I hope me and all my produce arrives safely at the end of this long journey to the otherside of the city. There is no air conditioning on the bus and the windows aren't made to open. I'm really excited about attending the botanical cuisine potluck, okay now time to calm down and enjoy the bus ride.

Karottensuppe

There is something in this carrot soup idea, the development of possible genius. I will keep experimenting until I run out of ideas, as it is delectable and I live eating it!
Today's soup was very similiar to yesterdays though I added 2 small new season parsnips to the blender and garnished with three kinds of sprouts. Rote linsen, puy linsen and buchweizen, if we wanted to talk deustch about our lebbensmittel. The sprouts added a great chewy texture and a sense of protein. I think the garnishing possibilities of a simple yet profound suppe such as karotten are wide open.

I love carrot soup

I really love raw carrot soup. The main ingredients are carrot and soup (aka water) whatever else you want to add is welcome. Some people out there make carrot soup by juicing their carrots and then blending it with an avocado to make it lovely and creamy. I'm a bit rougher and perhaps more primitive than that, and I don't mind the fibre element. I blend my carrots whole with a little water add some lemon and call it soup.
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3 medium size carrots
1 cup of water
1/2 cup of chia gel (2-3 tbs of chia seeds soaked in 1/2 a cup of water with a little salt and agave)
grated lemon rind
juice of 1/2 a lemon
salt
serve with quartered cherry tomatoes and a few freshly cracked walnuts and more lemon rind.
This was perfectly delicious for my afternoon sunshine purposes, herbs, greens and something creamy could also be fun to play with with this soup.

Cauli Oop

This morning I popped into the organic markets at Ceres and managed to pick up a very fine cauliflower, the kind that is so fresh and crisp that there is no way you would really consider cooking it.
I made a very quick raw blender soup. Blending is probably a bit of a cheeky thing to do to such a fine cauliflower,  I only used a quarter of it though so there are more possible cauli adventures in the near future.

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cauliflower
a carrot
2 cups of water
a few cherry tomatoes
juice of a small lime and 1/2 a lemon
fresh mint and coriander from the garden
1 tbs hemp oil
pink salt
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served with cherry tomatoes, mint and dulse flakes


This was very simple and mild, a tiny bit of garlic or spring onion would work beautifully as well as a good dashing of olive oil.

2nd bowl green

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Same soup as before (raw carrot soup)
Just added some sunflower seeds (blended with water separately for a milky affect), a few leaves of dinosaur kale, tiny bit of raw Ginger and a dash of hemp oil to serve

Raw carrot soup

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Blend together
Carrots
Water
Garlic
Salt
Lemon juice
Dash of olive oil to serve
Very simple, feel free to embellish, chia seeds or avocado would work
well.