Thanksgiving dinner was a hoot! We had family and old friends and new friends, and loads of good food! So much good food, in fact that we left the sweet potatoes in the oven because ... who needs that when you have the sweet potato mini-marshmallow concoction your niece brought over. Right?
So a week after Thanksgiving, I am faced with food re-organization.
The turkey carcass, left over carrots, celery, onions, and leeks was re-organized into turkey soup with dumplings. That's been parceled out to everyone who even looked like they were getting a cold. And about 8 more portions frozen and in the garage freezer (if you're in the neighborhood and hungry, start with the garage freezer).
We delayed re-org of all the orange things until today, when we began to contemplate Christmas...
All the Orange Things Soup
Ingredients
5.5 baked sweet potatoes, mashed (no marshmallows)
6 medium cooked carrots, diced or chopped
2 cans of Trader Joe's pumpkin puree left over from unfulfilled dreams of homemade pumpkin pie
1 can of Trader Joe's coconut milk
1/2 box vegetable broth
2 coconut milk cans of water
2 tablespoons (vegetable) Better than Bullion
one medium onion, diced
half a large leek, thinly sliced to make leeky half-moons
2 tbsp ground cumin
4 tbsp ground curry
1 tbsp dried / ground ginger
1 tbsp black pepper
1 tbsp red pepper
Directions
In a large soup pot, everything. Bring to a boil, stir well. Simmer about 20 minutes. Eat.
I think it'd be good with a garnish... sour cream, creme fraiche, yougurt, sriacha, sage, parsley, green onion...
