Rains Thursday Art and Dinner Date - Boots and Cauliflower Carrot and Ginger Soup

 Welcome to Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date!  Here is my 'Boots' ACEO (2 1/2" x 3 1/2").  It is outlined with a black acrylic pen, and coloured in with watercolour pencils.  I added highlights with white acrylic pen.

For the dinner date, I made a cauliflower , carrot and ginger soup.  The ginger really adds flavour to it.  Warning that you can leave this out if you find ginger too strong a taste. This is a yummy way to get all your vegetable servings in.  And you can use whatever soup stock you want, vegetable, beef, or chicken.

1 cauliflower cut into florets including the stem

1 large carrot peeled and diced

2 cloves garlic minced

1 onion chopped

1 bay leaf

1 tsp dried parsley

1 tsp dried oregano

1 tbs lemon juice

4 tbs light cream

a handful of shredded cheese

1 900ml carton of low sodium soup broth plus 2 c water

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp pepper

1/2 tsp red pepper flakes

1" fresh ginger peeled (with the back of a spoon) and sliced

3 tbs olive oil

Saute onion, carrots, ginger in olive oil then add garlic after the onions have browned.  Mix in salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, oregano and  parsley.  Add cauliflower and broth, lemon juice and water to just cover the vegetables.  Bring to a boil and simmer for 20 - 25 minutes until the vegetables are fork tender.  Mix in cream and cheese for a few minutes.  Blend with an immersion blender, I waited until the soup cooled a bit.