Soup is just SO good

Day 3 of daily drawing and writing

Anyone else loving that it’s soup weather? (Except for it intermittently being warmer than much of the summer was!) I have a whole bunch of soups I want to make and more to invent – or just throw together, because you can totally do that with soup. When we used to get a weekly veg box delivered I would always make soup the day before the new box came – just using up whatever was left with some veg stock and some herbs and then whizz it up and see what colour it ended up. I don’t think I ever made one that didn’t taste bloomin lovely.

I love loads of soups (and stews), but I particularly like having a big pot of some kind of puréed soup, because then you can pop it in a mug and sip from it and it warms you up makes you feel autumn. Right? Not just me?

This week’s soup was sweet potato and red pepper soup. It’s sooooo nice. Although it wasn’t quite as peppery as it should be because I only had two red peppers and one yellow. Four red peppers is definitely the ideal. I think I drew this last year. I actually looked it up on my Instagram feed to check what I put in it. And I’m just now realising that I forgot the paprika! That would have totally made it more peppery too. Ah well. It was still lovely.

We have a butternut squash sitting waiting to be used, so I feel that will make its way into the next soup. Will probably include some beans of some kind. I know everyone loves to pair butternut squash with sage, but I really don’t like sage. It’s one of the things that I associate with meat and, even if I know full well that there’s no meat in a dish, because I cooked it myself, it still makes me feel like I’m eating meat. (The other thing that does that is smoked flavour – e.g. smoked paprika.) And, yes, it would be really good if I could get over it!

Any suggestions of what to pair my butternut squash with for a nice soup, or will it be enough to have it, beans (butter or cannelini), I’m thinking) and garlic and stock?

And do you have any favourite soups?

I did better with fitting the drawing part of this daily practice in – and definitely within the half hour (trick = pick something super simple to draw; though I would have been quicker if I didn’t always feel the need to patterns on everything!). But I was going to do the writing as soon as youngest teen left the house (oldest teen doesn’t go in to college until mid-morning most of the week - lucky her!) and instead did Duolingo and then had a text from youngest teen needing me to top up her lunch account and my phone didn’t want to give me the boxes to enter the card details so I had to come upstairs, and then I started answering emails and sending Teams messages and setting up ready to start work and THEN… then I remembered I hadn’t written anything. So, it’s now almost 9.15. Tomorrow… tomorrow I will succeed in drawing and writing and posting within the allotted 30 minutes and before the working day starts. I WILL.