The worst thing about making a big deal about other people posting on my day is that if I forget, don’t care, or just suck, everyone is going to know and call me a hypocrite. I can’t have that, now can I?

So, I have a problem with these guys. Wells Fargo. I guess it’s not totally their fault, but they are the ones I have to deal with to get it fixed, so they will be the ones who feel the wrath of my razor-sharp wit in the form of thinly-veiled passive-aggressive comments when I go see them this afternoon. Maybe something about how my identity would be safer with a bank that uses real armored cars, rather than 19th century stagecoaches.

It all started when somebody stole my Identity. I didn’t notice anything was wrong until I started talking like a 17 year old valley girl and kept telling everyone about all the ridiculous shit I was buying with some dumb kid’s money. Suprisingly, after several phone calls and some business reply mail questionnaires I got all the money back and everything, but still hadn’t gotten my new card in the mail.

This brings up another problem, which is how Wells Fargo doesn’t allow P.O. Boxes as your main address and I live in a podunk mountain town with no at-home mail delivery. Put them together and I have to trick the bank into sending me stuff to a box by using a 9-digit zip code (which is sometimes, but not always rejected, resulting in a 5 dollar fine from the bank for a returned statement). So they send the card to my “local” branch (30 min away) and I eventually get it last week.

NOW the PIN doesn’t work so I can’t use an ATM and I can’t order anything online because the computer is now convinced that my billing address is in a bank branch instead of my house. GRRRRRRRR. I hate banks and/or identity thieves.

I’m going to go make some soup.

Another soup I recently made. This time I was trying something a little new instead of just using one of my old recipes.

(Another blurry photo - thanks camera)

It’s just regular tomato soup really, but made with fresh blended ingredients and infused with fresh herbs, instead of dumped out of a can. In the picture it looks a bit orange. My major criticism of it was that it was too sweet for my tastes, but I find Campbell’s sweet too (this was sweeter for comparison purposes).

So…WOULD YOU EAT THIS?? Furthermore, any suggestions of how I can beef up the recipe? I was considering making it more of an herbed tomato soup and adding something like rosemary. Thoughts?

Fall is here! And I’m back to making soups…I guess. If people want me to stop again, just let me know.

Anyways - photo of the soup of the day

Sorry about the blurriness, but the camera was almost out of batteries and didn’t want to focus.

A creamy swiss soup with lots of big chunks of mushrooms, as well as other veggies cooked together. Topped with cilantro especially for randomgirl.

So…WOULD YOU EAT THIS?

Ok, today I thought I’d snazz things up with my super-secret, award-winning* CREAM OF CARROT SOUP

Don’t be scared off by the name - the “cream” portion is only the addition of a little sour cream at the end. The soup is a pureed blend of carrots and other veggies and herbs that simmer together. This smooth, rich soup is warm and comforting. Unlike many carrot soup recipes, I do not add the flavour of ginger, and opt for a more earthy flavour. This soup is very healthy, very flavourful, and even vegetarian.

I can’t offer you a picture today because weasel stole the camera chord. However, I will upload elsewhere tonight.

In the meantime, WOULD YOU EAT THIS SOUP!? (or you at least curious about the picture?)

*no actual awards won
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UPDATE:

THE SOUP! At long last!!!

You can see there is still some texture to the soup in this picture.

Though gumbo is basically a whatever-I-have-left-in-the-house-goes-in-the-pot recipe, I accidently stumbled upon what will probably be my standard recipe from now on.

The recipe is fairly healthy - full of veggies and made with very little oil. The “sausages” I use are actually turkey sausages. No rice or potatoes or anything in it either, so those doing low-carb can be happy as well. And yet, this soup is full of flavour!

So…WOULD YOU EAT THIS??

…except not really vegetarian. This week. I didn’t have/make any vegetable stock, so I made it with beef this time. But usually I make this one vegetarian.

Actually, there was a host of problems with the soup this week. I tried using the crock pot again, and freaked out that it might burn through the night, so then added too much water, resulting in a thinner soup than usual. Also I left out the celery, because ours went bad. Oh and I was drunk while I was making it, which always helps things.

So this was the result:

So forget this particular soup. If it was a little thicker, actually vegetarian (with the right veggies), and the cook had been less inebreiated during the cooking process, WOULD YOU EAT THIS SOUP??

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