The soup list

I made apple crisp this weekend with the last few apples that were starting to get kind of sorry on the kitchen counter. For some reason I don’t know where my mom’s recipe went for this, so I looked it up online, and then the betty crocker recipe didn’t seem like it had enough butter or sugar in it for whatever disjointed-tracy reason, so I increased both, and it turned out kind of melty and soupy. But it was still yummy, so whatever. I need to make a note to find the recipe I have written down and transfer it to the recipe book on my computer.

Also, my soup waiting list is LONG. I’ve got a big batch of minestrone in the fridge that I made to use the chard that we had to take out of the garden. Which is good. But I think it needed to simmer a little longer. And I have a couple of ugly knobs of celeriac rolling around in the crisper, and some parsnips that seemed like a good idea at the farmer’s market a couple of weeks ago, so those need to get made into soup, too. At the same time, I’m craving chili and chicken soup like nobody’s business, and while I was thumbing through my soup file after a friend asked after something for butternut squash, I came across a recipe for (I think) black bean and squash soup. Or it could have been something else but the point is that it sounded so crazy good and I totally want to make it right now. I think my love for soup has transcended what is physically and emotionally possible to make for one’s small family. Perhaps I need to throw these in a hat to choose.

Today is my last day at my job before I go be what I wanted to be when I grow up. My last day of so many many seven years worth of days that seemed so long and now seems, well, still long, but in a freaky OVER kind of way. I’m excited and super nervous at the same time, and really freaked out over the fact that I won’t ever walk these halls again, likely, and although that is exactly what I want, it feels so STRANGE. It definitely feels like the end of one life and the start to another, in a way. But there are doughnuts, so that takes a bit of the edge off.