Bringing Souvenirs Home. Asparagus Soup.

 

@brittarnhild

Part of travelling is to bring souvenirs home.
When you are a world traveller, when the blood of wanderlust flows in your veins, your home at home soon fills up. My hotel stationary collection is growing, my elephant collection soon needs more space, my nativity scene collection can never be big enough but is outgrowing the cabinet where I keep it the 11 neither advent nor Christmas months.........to say it clearly, our house soon refuses to give room to more "stuff".

 

But not all souvenirs need space.

I am just home from 10 days in Nepal. And one of many cherished keepsakes I brough home, and unpacked, is the memory of an asparagus soup.
Day after day I had eaten rice with dal bath, or mo-mos. Vegetable mo-mo, mo-mo with chichen, steamed mo-mo, fried mo-mo. I liked it all, but when I, the last day, spent some house in The Garden of Dreams in Kathmandu, and saw that the tiny restaurant had asparagus soup on the menu, I treated myself with a bowl. And a glass of chilled white wine.

 

It was delicious. Of course the settings framed it all perfectly, and the is an essential part of the memory I brought home with me. But the taste of the soup........my tastebuds will remember it for a long time :-)

So when I passed the vegetable section at my local gvrocery store yesterday, the fresh asparagus cried out my name. "BrittArnhild, here we are. Ready for you to make a soup." I knew it would never be the same as the Garden of Dreams soup, but why not give it a try?

 

Asparagus Soup ala Garden of Dreams

cook asparagus in water
add salt, pepper, vegeta and coreander
add more pepper

blend

add a spoon with sour cream, a bit more pepper, chives

serve with a glass of white wine

 

open your Blue Garden for the season.

 

Eating the soup, spring in the air.
I was not back in Nepal, nor was I in The Garden of Dreams.

I was in my own Blue Garden, with my husband.
The soup was perfect,
and life was good. 

Comments

[marilee]

Britt, I have been looking for a recipe for asparagus soup. This is so simple and sounds delicious.

[anne]

What a better place to eat your Asparagus soup "with Terje at home" .. You need a new home ... or expand the walls LOL .. I am sure no matter which way you turn I your lovely house, there is always something reminding you of a trip xoxo

[Carol]

What is vegeta?

[BrittArnhild]

Carol, here is what Wikipedia says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegeta_(food)