going to deutschland, having the creamy carrot curry soup

Hey, guys! It's me again. I haven't fully recovered from my overdose of cranberry-lemon bread pudding, so I thought I'd make it again tomorrow since we've got some friendies coming over for an early supper. Maybe a little bit more of it will help me get it out of my system - that's my theory, anyway, and I think it's a darn good one. And of course I want to share the pudding wealth.

In the meantime, I realized I've got two events coming up that I wanted to join, and the soup I made for lunch today will work for both. Yippee! It's definitely yummers enough for double dipping, so don't diss it just because it shows up at two parties in the same dress.

Joan over at FOODalogue is still on her round-the-globe cyber-culinary-journey (helping BloggerAid along the way) and I'm joining her in Germany to have some of this luscious curry-fied soup. It's got a kick, but not so big that your toddler doesn't guzzle it down his gullet. I hung out with Joan in Norway with my lemon loaf and am also planning on joining her in the Deep South, if not before.

Deb is hosting another Souper Sunday tomorrow, so I'm headed to Hawaii to hang out with her in her Kahakai Kitchen, ready to learn some new recipes there and share my tested-and-tried-over-and-over-and-over-and-over-for-the-last-six-years carrotty soup.

And here's the recipe for the soup from one of my absolute favorite cookbooks, Extending the Table: A World Community Cookbook. In German it's called Mohrrubensuppe, but I don't speak that particular language so it's just "carrot soup" for moi.

You'll need:

3 T. (45 ml) margarine
2 medium carrots, sliced
1 T. (15 ml) sugar
2 T. (30 ml) flour
1/2 t. (2 ml) curry powder, or more to taste
2 c. (500 ml) chicken or beef broth (I use 2 c. hot water and 2 chicken buoillon cubes, cheaper and less waste, and the only place I could buy canned broth here in Japan is at Costco anyway)
salt to taste
1-2 T. (15-30 ml) sour cream or yogurt (I use plain yogurt - sour cream is very expensive here)
2 T. (30 ml) white wine (I add one teaspoon to each adult's bowl and stir it around, and obviously don't give any to my toddler)

Do this:

Melt the margarine in a large pot, then add and saute the carrots. Sprinkle the sugar over, then add the flour, curry powder, and broth. Bring it all to a boil while stirring and cook until the carrots are tender. Turn off the heat and purify in your regular blender (how I used to have to do it) or with an immersion blender (much easier and quicker and less washing up afterward). Add salt to taste, the sour cream or yogurt, and the wine. Serve immediately. I added some snipped parsley to mine today and it added just the right flavor.

I usually triple or quadruple this and then freeze some, and it works beautifully. Plenty to chow on the first day, a bit of leftover the next, and then the fruits of your labor pay off later when you're craving it again but don't actually feel like peeling and chopping and boiling.

(BTW, if you can tell me what kind of bowl that is in the above photo I'll blow you a kiss from Japan! It's a traditional Japanese bowl for eating...what? I'll give you a hint. It's not for soup.)

Guten Appetit!