“Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!” – Lewis Carroll
Continuing the series of vegetarian food that even non-vegetarians can enjoy (and reduce their carbon footprints accordingly), here’s my roasted butternut soup recipe, a real favourite with my family (secret: neither of my children like butternut, but they both love this soup).
Roasted Butternut Soup (serves 6-8)
2 medium butternuts
1 apple
2 medium onions
4 Tbsp olive oil
1 tsp mild curry powder
4 Tbsp rice flour (you could use wheat flour)
pinch of ground nutmeg
4 tsp vegetable stock powder (Ina Paarman’s, Marigold Buillon, or similar)
3 cups boiling water
2 cups milk (or rice milk)
1 ½ tsp Himalayan rock salt (or similar)
Pre-heat oven to 180′C. Peel, seed/core and dice the butternuts and apple. Peel the onions and chop roughly. In a large oven tray, place the diced butternut, apple and onions and drizzle with olive oil. Roast for 20-30 minutes until the butternut, apple and onions are tender and the smells coming out of your oven are just divine.
Tip the butternut, apple and onion into a large saucepan, add the curry powder, flour, nutmeg and stock powder and mix well.
Put the pan onto a medium heat and add the boiling water, milk, and salt to the butternut mixture. Bring to the boil, lower heat and simmer gently with the lid on for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Puree or blend until smooth. Serve.
More delicious vegetarian food next week. Stay tuned.
Not being much of a follower of sport I hadn’t heard of the World Games until last week. And why did the World Games pique my attention? Because the stadium that’s being built specially for it in Taiwan is the world biggest solar powered stadium in the world. It’s covered in a staggering 8844 solar panels.
After the games are held in July this year, this stadium will power 80% the neighbourhood surrounding it with the massive 1.14 gigawatt hours that it will produce every year. Now that’s forward thinking.
The stadium was designed by architect Toyo Ito, seats 55,000 people and cost over $150million to build.
As we come to the end of Bike to Work Week 2009 (a US event that doesn’t feature in South Africa, yet), it was thanks to blogs like Lighter Footstep and Treehugger that I decided to dust off my bicycle, attach Piper’s bike to the Trailgator, and do the school run by bicycle.
But even though I am almost 13,000 kilometres from where the Bike to Work action has been happening this week, I couldn’t help but get caught up in the thrill of hitting the road on my bicycle, wind in my hair, mud spatter on my face (it’s winter here). Here are some of the online highlights of the week.
Cape Town Daily Photo featured a cool cycling photo depicting Biking and Cycling around Cape Town during Bike to Work Week, although I think it was coincidence.
Some cool cycling accessories from around the world:
London Cycle Chic – for London ladies who like to look good while cycling, Caz is the epitome of stylishness on a bike.
For parents, the awesome TAGA baby stroller that converts into a baby transporting trike:
And finally
For Cape Town’s southern suburb cyclists who need a bit of encouragement to get cycling to work, how about joining one of the Critical Mass rides every last Friday of the month from the Baxter Theatre at 06:45, meeting up with another group at the CTICC at 07:15.
In the UK Bike Week runs from the 13th to the 21st of June 2009.
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