This is the last of anything to eat from my garden, except for the chard. I needed onions for my soup but decided that once I got out to the garden I might as well harvest the whole shooting match. As you can see there are peppers, Walla Wallas, shallots, spuds and carrots in the pile. I will really miss going out to the garden and deciding what's for dinner but it will all happen again next spring.
Okay - I made the Mulligatawny Soup and the Green Raita. I wasn't that impressed. Maybe it was
because I had Miss Jenny's very excellent chicken curry recently and this soup is basically a chicken curry soup served with a spoon of rice and raita to garnish. Don't get me wrong here. It was good but needed much more in the way of spices. If I were making it again I would add a couple tablespoons of curry powder and maybe more ginger than she called for.
The good thing that came out of this exercise is that I actually for the first time in my life cooked good rice. Normally I just boil rice like pasta, then drain it and I'm good to go. I decided to try the directions on the package using a heavy small dutch oven and it turned out perfect. I think that the heavy bottom of the pot is the secret because I've always burned the rice.
Even though I was disappointed in the Mulligatawny Soup I will be trying more of Rachael Ray's soup recipes because that Butternut Sausage soup was way over the top delicious...maybe something that the Soup Nazi might make. I had to find this clip from Seinfeld where Elaine had so much trouble getting a bowl of soup from him and you can watch it here.
There are few sounds as sickening as your glass coffee pot hitting the sink just right during morning dishes. Not only are you not gonna have coffee tomorrow morning but you gotta dig the glass pieces out of the soap suds.
I have been using one of those free Gevalia coffee makers that I got about ten years ago after agreeing to buy their coffee for about six months. It has been a wonderful coffee maker. I decided to go on EBay and see if I could get a replacement. Man are they expensive. You could get a whole new setup from Ebay cheaper that the replacement. I went to Gevalia but they want $16.99 plus $7.00 shipping.
So I dug around in my cupboards looking for one of those cone things that you put on your coffee cup and then pour water over the grounds. The picture below is what I found:
I do not recognize this coffee maker. There are no bells and whistles and, of all things, it is white!! I would never buy white because it shows every little coffee drip. The only thing that I can think of is that one of the assortment of men who have tried and failed to live with me left it here. It works great so I'm gonna continue keeping it until somebody asks for it back.
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