Loving the "Artic Blast" and Pumpkin soup

Our recent snow storm was hailed as the Artic Blast by the news people.

The roads yesterday were miserable and 2 hours for 25 miles was pretty average across the freeways.  My hubs spent 4 + hours driving 50 miles from work. Riding the metro wasn't really a better deal, as everyone was stuck on the roads and the myriads of accidents, ice, and confusion.
Seattleites aren't really good at snow driving. It's just a fact.

Now the sun is out, and its quite beautiful but the temperatures are low.
So to warm you up, I'm going to share my Pumpkin soup recipe.  There are so many versions of this soup, and everyone has there favorite.  I put this one together a few weeks ago.

PUMPKIN SOUP

1 sugar pumpkin med size cut in half seeds removed, and roast with meat side down on foil lined baking sheet.  I cook at 450 degrees for about and hour or the meat is very tender.
1 can of light coconut milk
1 Tbsp approximately of mild red curry paste
1 16 oz can of chicken broth ( you can use more if soup is too thick)
additional, 1/4 tsp ginger, 1/4 - 1/2 tsp coriander-ground, cayenne to taste, if you don't like ginger or coriander, not a big deal if you don't add extra.
about a quarter of finely chopped onion.
(seasoning is so up to individual, I try to not use much salt, as it is usually in the chix broth.)

Put all the ingredients into soup pan, and heat, I use and immersion blender to smooth out the pumpkin, be careful to not splash your self, or use the blender before heating the liquid. You could also put half the mixture into a regular blender and repeat with 2nd part.

Once it is all heated thru serve with some yummy whole wheat french bread, and a side salad.

Hope you enjoy it.  It warms up your kitchen as well as your table.

How time flies.

I just realized its been about a month since my last post here.  Not intentional to let so much time pass, sometimes it just happens.

I'm still waiting for my home to sell, which is nerve racking as the time gets closer to the holidays.  Between trying to keep up the appearance of constant house cleaning, and trying to keep and eye on the market if it does sell, its quite tiring both mentally and physically.   Obviously now is not a great season to sell a house, however we don't always have total control.

My daughter celebrated her 19th birthday last week, the first one away from home.  It was very weird as a parent to not share that day with your child.  We sent an edible fruit bouquet to her dance classes, with birthday balloons, and her friends went out with her for dinner and desert.  In the meantime, she has found new digs to move to after Thanksgiving.  So she'll be saying goodbye to the flop house, and hello to the challenge of moving in the city without a car.  I believe she will be much happier in the new place, she will have her own bedroom, and the girls all speak English. As you may remember her so far she's had a Korean roommate who had very little English language skills, and currently has a roommate from Turkey. This girl has better command of the language, but long conversations are still difficult.
In 2 days she will be coming homing to celebrate Thanksgiving.  Last year she was in the local Macy's parade on black Friday, and we spent all of the day downtown, this year that's not happening.

Well this is just a quickie.  I will post some more in the next day or two. 
Oh yes we have Snow!  Snow before Thanksgiving, is quite uncommon in Seattle overall, and to occur before the Thanksgiving holiday is even rarer.