Vanishing beets and other likely stories

The weather has turned cold, and there's nothing I like better than a hot bowl of soup, for making a person feel fit for whatever happens.

Today it's green soup, carrot tops, leek greens, tons of garlic, couple of red potatoes, chicken broth, basil pesto, seasoned with Bill Veach recipe curry powder, (let me know if you want me to give the recipe, it's very good, and fun to make at home) turmeric, kosher salt, and with added pumpkin water and beet juice, dash of lemon juice.  The beet juice is very fugitive, so where you see a rather lurid red here,  the color will vanish on cooking and become green. Likewise the seasonings were very golden, and they blended in to the green.  And I added in a handful of noodles.

Pumpkin muffin to go with.  Salty P. suggested it was a muffin type thing, and I agree, not to be presented as a cupcake, despite the paper case.  It's more savory.  She should know. Pumpkin is her last name.

This is a great soup.  You can feel strength flowing into you as you eat.  I did fish out a bunch of ultra fibrous remains from the carrot greens, and what's left is very manageable. 

Tomorrow my Misfits box arrives, complete with celery and lettuce, so I'm signing up for a few days of salads, too, ready for them at this point.  Misfits has certainly taken a shopping load off Handsome Son, who now has weeks with just a couple of requests, and one week with none, but an invitation to tea anyway.

The leader of my online Thursday centering prayer group got in touch, with today's link, and a question about whether we wanted to meet next Thursday, given that it's Thanksgiving.  I said no, I'd leave the Zoom traffic to people who really needed it for seeing family at a distance, since I'll be seeing Handsome Son in person.

My hidden agenda was to try to give her an evening off, by not obliging her to sign in.  However, one other person insisted they needed to meet, so she will try for it.  I wish they'd thought first, though.  Sometimes it's kind to agree to let something not happen for once. Leader Chris has family Zoom meetings, and now she'll have to juggle the prayer group as well.  I have a feeling that Zoom will be overloaded anyway, so it's possible that people may not manage to get online. Anyway, I did my tiny bit.

I'm definitely getting more absent minded.  To wit, ready to walk the other day: coat, check, hat, check, gloves, check, mask, check, phone, check.  Stepped out, ouch, this path is really hard today.  Look down.  Oh.  Shoes, check.

I'm about to go walking now, and this is in the form of reminder to self.  Shoes, Lizzie, shoes.  Always useful. Especially when the temp is about freezing.