Carrot and Ginger Soup

Ingredients:

• 2 potatoes
• 1 onion
• all the carrots you need to get rid of....!
• a chunk of ginger
• butter
• vegetable stock

1. Peel and chop all the vegetables

2. In a pot, saute the onion and potato in butter for 10 minutes. Cover with some paper towel while the vegetables are soaking in the butter.

3. After 10 minutes, add all the carrots and ginger to the pot, and stir. Heat in the butter for another few minutes.

4. Add in the vegetable stock. Cover the pot, and let the vegetables simmer for between 30 and 45 minutes.

5. Once the vegetables are cooked, use a mixer or blender to blend all the ingredients.

6. Serve and enjoy!

easiest homemade carrot soup

Carrots: good in so many ways. Good for eyes, even better for your skin. Super low calorie but dense and full of flavors. When columnists list superfoods, I'm always shocked why this isn't one of them. I could likely write all of my posts about the ways I use carrots, but I'll start here with something i think most of you would like. Extra easy, cheap, healthy and filling. All the taste comes from roasting.


Ingredients:

- 1/2 white onion, 1 clove garlic, 4 large carrots, all roughly chopped
- 1/2 tsp each curry, nutmeg and dried parsley; pinch of salt and pepper
- 1/2 cup of low sodium vegetable broth
- 1 tbl butter
- dollop of low fat sour cream and dried parsley



Directions: preheat oven to 450F.



In baking pan, pour 1/4 c of broth, vegetables, spices and butter. Cover with aluminum foil, bake for 30 min. Pour into blender, while hot, with remaining vegetable broth and puree until smooth. Top with sour cream. Makes 2 servings.

Adding parsnips is a great way to add spice.

tasty dishes

So what we have here is a tasty meal composed of Rachel's chana masala, some pecan rice, the mushroom/carrot dish we came up with and then my signature salad. It quartered nicely on the plate. For the next two nights I had the same thing minus the mushroom dish since we hadn't made enough of that, and I'd definite reccomend it. If I could spell recommend. Reccomend?

carrots, mushrooms, coriander

A simple sidedish.

ingredients

• chopped baby portobella mushrooms
• three big carrots
• a handful of fresh coriander/cilantro
• a spoonful of crushed garlic
• season with cardamon, pepper, salt
• olive oil
  

Chip, simmer, season, serve.

today is national ..

carrot cake day. i'm a fan. you?

Whole Wheat Carrot Mini Muffins

So I think that my first mistake is along the lines of "Walk Before You Run"-style truisms. Its hard for me to come up with any baking success stories, both in terms of sweet things or breads. So instead of trying to follow a recipe, I thought I'd get creative. I decided to take a recipe for banana bread muffins and go crazy. Yeah.

The ingredients were straightforward to start with. Flour, baking soda, butter, an egg, sugar. A pinch of salt. I substituted a few cups of grated carrot for the mashed bananas that were called for. I added a bit of peanut butter because I felt like it and some pumpkin seeds for crunch.




















After filling most of the mini-muffin pan I realized that I really wanted them to have chocolate chips in there too, so I added those for the remaining 10 or so. Put them in the oven and walk away.

25 minutes later I come back and they're perfect. Just like at the top of the post. But baking hates me.

They were maybe a C+ for the first 5 seconds of chewing (I'd give the ones with chocolate chips a B), and then for the next 5 seconds they became unpleasant while you hurried to swallow, and then your mouth tastes like shoe for 10 more. They were gross. I'm never baking again.