NaBloPoMo & Vegetable Soup

Damn. Second day into NaBloPoMo and I blew it. I was just sitting down to post when I realized it was already after midnight.

Damn!

Ah, well, I'm going to keep going anyway, and see how I do, then try again next month.

Today I wanted to post about this lovely, lovely vegetable soup recipe. It's from a book called The Vegan Table: 200 Unforgettable Recipes for Entertaining Every Guest at Every Occasion by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau.** This book is not just for entertaining and every recipe is not overly involved or requiring a zillion ingredients. Some recipes are very simple, like the soup I've made twice in the last week.

It's a basic recipe that includes sauteing onions, celery, and carrots in a little olive oil, then adding some tomatoes (canned or fresh), then broth or water, then zucchini and broccoli. In other words, it's very similar to the soup I might have thrown together with whatever veggies were in my fridge at the moment. Somehow, though, when I followed this recipe, it came out even better than it usually does. I think it might be the addition of fresh herbs or maybe the particular blend of herbs.

When I made it, I added fresh garlic while sauteing the veggies. The second time I made it, I added just a tiny bit of diced red pepper when I was adding the tomatoes. I didn't add broccoli either time. I love broccoli, but not in soup. The author included some suggestions for additions to make it more of a full meal.

It's yummy, yummy soup.


**The link above goes to this book at Amazon. I don't have an account set up with them at this time, but I provided the link for convenience.

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NaBloPoMo, New Laptop, & Windows 7

I haven't used this blog much as I'm more of a LiveJournal addict, but I thought it would be fun to do NaBloPoMo using this blog, since nobody reads it. The goal is to stimulate writing, creativity, and the thought process, and to free me from thinking too much about who might be reading. I also want to start up a couple of other blogs (not for NaBloPoMo) and get them going as well, and just see what happens.

I'm writing this on my brand new laptop, which is cool, though it's not easy to get used to the keyboard. I've been busy installing things on this computer and transferring/duplicating some things from my desktop.

I also upgraded my desktop to Windows 7 last week, so I'm still working on getting that up to spead again as well. My goal on both computers is to keep them streamlined and only install what I really need and will use.

Okay, off to install The Sims 3. Secretly I'm hoping that Santa will bring me Sims 3 World Adventures this year, but I doubt it.