soup

Farmers Market Soup

Just came back from my weekly trip to the Farmer’s Market (is it Farmers’ Market? or perhaps Farmers Market?). Above is a beautiful soup I made from some of my purchases last week.

Ingredients:

• 2 onions
• 2 tsp. olive oil
• 1 bunch of kale
• 3 yellow-orange squash
• 4 leaves of fresh basil
• 2 peeled cloves of garlic, chopped or pressed
• 3 small tomatoes, chopped
• 1 Tbsp. tomato sauce
• salt and pepper to taste

Saute the onions in olive oil until translucent. Add squash and water. Cook for ten minutes. Add remaining ingredients. Cook until squash is tender. Enjoy. If you like, sprinkle with parmesan cheese.

Update: you might want to add some lemon. I can’t remember if I did or didn’t. I definitely didn’t buy lemon at the Farmer’s Market. New Jersey isn’t that warm (yet).

Topics I’d Like to Cover

I have more ideas for posts than time. Here are some I’d like to present:

• Birthday Party Ideas
• Breakfast in Kfar Ruth (pronounced ‘Root’, as in root canal, but much tastier)
• In Search of Brown Rice (posted!)
• Easy Hikes in Tel Dan (unfortunately, I posted about the fire in Tel Dan)
• Art in Israel
• Explaining Ghosts to Small Children(posted!)
• A Crab Photo (I thought maybe it was a scorpion?–posted!)
• Border Ahead: How Little Israel Is, A Photo Essay
• Artsy Manholes (What Does Your Sidewalk Say To You?)
• Chicken Soup (the homemade food my kids missed the most when we were traveling)
• Noodle Kugel for kids Recipe (posted!)

And I have a Pirkei Avot post that I promise, at least to Ilana-Davita, bli neder (without making the promise have to stand up in a Jewish court, or something like that), that I will get online this week. About how even if you’re an old fogey-stogey like we are becoming, you can still learn Torah. But it’s much easier to get started when you’re young.
Posted: Learn as a Child

Meanwhile, visit Therapydoc’s post about the Shidduchim Crisis (matchmaking crisis in the Jewish community).