flour ink? what's that?

it's a play on words. i have another blog - flower ink - that takes its name after my garden writing business. this is about my cooking exploits. i can see where the two would intertwine now and then. but that's probably a few months off when the garden starts producing.

so, the inspiration for flour ink happened just a few minutes ago. i finished the prep work for a curried butternut ginger soup and was washing up while setting the soup to simmer. and i thought "note to self: when grating ginger, use the box grater, not the nutmeg grater."

i've pulled out the nutmeg grater tons of times to grate ginger, and i'm disappointed every time. nothing but a sloppy blob of ginger that doesn't come free of those horribly sharp micro-plane teeth. an old-fashioned box grater does the trick. but i never remember.

there's five minutes until the timer goes off. so i'll tell you about the soup. it's delicious. butternut squash, apples, ginger, potatoes, apple cider, chicken broth (it calls for veggie broth but i haven't found a brand that i like), and some curry. and salt to taste after pureeing. that's it. it's the easiest soup out there. i should say the easiest, best tasting soup out there.

what else? hmm. no sides, just soup for dinner. keep it simple. my god, the weather has absolutely sucked today, and it's totally a soup-for-dinner kinda night. we'll probably eat the whole batch while watching the news. seriously, the weather was horrible. about 4 inches of snow last night then rain all day. so, with the rain melting the snow, we had twice as much water coming out of the snow then the amount of rain going into it. misery. but hey, that's new england for you.

10 seconds left until the timer. thanks for reading.