Oh, Monday... (deadline iteration)

‹LauraAnne›I have just had the sudden thought that nothing in this book actually works, as a coherent storytelling whole.
‹Princejvstin› hmm?
‹LauraAnne› Paul: that's novelistese for "OMG it all sucks." Right on schedule.

In other news, I have reached that point in the manuscript where the ultimate chapter becomes the penultimate chapter and then suddenly it's the pre-penultimate chapter, as the ending seems to step backward, one slow, taunting pace at a time... Oh, deadline, yes, I see you there, 14 days hence. No need to play coy, we both know what this is all about.

It's the Monday of Thanksgiving week. I have a hundred and one things to do that aren't writing, and we're out of coffee. *puts on sunglasses* Hit it.

Good Eats.

A 2010 Graves white (Haut-Selve), and curried squash-apple soup. This is my idea of comfort food. Because ODFG today has been a day of dealing with the stupid, the cranky-making, and the prickling irritations. Only the fact that I also wrote 2500 new words has kept me from calling it an utter wash.

The soup is based (by which I meant to say I took his cooking suggestions, and added my own ingredients) on the pumpkin soup recipe from Mark Bittman's COOK ALL THE THINGS (actual title: How to Cook Everything Vegetarian. I like my title better). If you don't have this cookbook (or its non-vegetarian partner) and you have a kitchen, you are missing out. Seriously. It's like having the perfectly trained spotter at the gym.

Oh, the soup? Peel and rough-chop a butternut squash, and two apples. Throw 'em in a pan with some heated oil and some onions, cook until they start to soften. Toss in your preference of curry powders and ginger (fresh or powdered). Add about 3 cups of broth. Cook for about half an hour, just below a boil. Run it all through a blender, then add one cup of almond milk (or coconut milk, if you prefer the full-fat version). Take 1 cup of the soup and toss it back into the blender with about 1/4 pound of trimmed green beans. Puree, and stir back in. Serve.

Nom. And also, nom. And with the added benefit of being really damn healthy.

EtA: and I probably should not eat the entire batch tonight.  Even if it is lo-cal and disgustingly healthy....