April 3, 2013
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Cooking this week
I have been on a cooking binge the last week. Cooking things that I can freeze up later for lunches. As you know my current diet is rather restricted (vegetarian & radiation damage) but recently I've been able to add a bunch more foods. YAY!
This first picture may not look very appetizing but it is so good!

It is cauliflower soup. Made with only, cauliflower, onion, olive oil, water, salt & pepper. It tastes like a good potato soup broth. Happy with it. Next time ( and there will be a next time) I will replace half of the water with coconut milk, and use more cauliflower. It wasn't as thick as I would have liked.

This is a crockpot soup. The main ingredients were cauliflower, red lentils and quinoa. There were a lot of ingredients in this. It came out quite nicely, except it's got a little bit of kick to it that I didn't want. I only used a 1/2 teaspoon of cayenne but it's too much for someone being gentle on their innards.
This was my breakfast yesterday. I cut up a banana and threw on a pack of hulled hemp seeds that I had been given. It was quite tasty, but that's not the reason you are seeing the picture. The camera on my phone has been acting funny for a week and it wasn't until this picture that I found the magic fix.

I cleaned the lens!! I must have gotten some coffee or tea on it.
Ah, this was the soup that started it all. I took all of these vegetables and chopped them up and tossed them with some olive oil and roasted them (30 minutes covered with parchment paper - 30 minutes without)

Then I threw all the roasted vegetables in a blender with the mushroom broth.

The mushroom broth over powered everything else but it was still good. More importantly I had no problems eating it! Wasn't sick at all.
Today for the first time in at least 14 days I skipped my morning workout.
I got up late and had to make a choice. Be late to work for the THIRD day in a row or skip it, so I skipped it. I would have felt more guilty if I had been late. Monday I was late by 10 minutes and Tuesday by 25. Aggravating.Off and running now.
Comments (10)
So you really blend down the cauliflower or is that just the broth?
@Ninasusan - That's the finished product. Blended to a very light soup. I would definitely like it a little thicker, but that's my fault. My head of cauliflower was quite small. Recipe is on my pinterest board too. Paul Bertolli's cauliflower soup. I think.
The cauliflower soup sure lacks viscosity. It's stuck to the bowl.
haha I cleaned the lens! Sometimes it's the little things. That cauliflower soup actually sounds good. There's a broccoli soup I really want to try to make one day....one day.
I'm eating a banana right now!
I am going to start making you soup.
@chaosconfetti - You're a good daughter.
Darn. Don't remind me. I've never cleaned my lense. Need to.
Oh my goodness now I am hungry
I am very interested in the cauliflower soup! My Mother would live that! I am going to search Pinterest! Thanks for the idea!
@Jst4e - http://food52.com/recipes/15247-paul-bertolli-s-cauliflower-soup
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