My Orange Delight!

There are a few recipes that I make only once a year. This includes the orange tuile. It's not because the recipe makes such a huge quantity that it lasts for a whole year but it's takes DAMN long to make these crispy orange delights. I have actually timed it it takes about 12 minutes to make 3 tuiles. Also, my finger tips get super hot / burnt because I like them in cigar shape than the traditional tile shape. It's real difficult to not start cursing a few hours into this lengthy torture.Yes, I bitch and complain while making these but it's worth all the trouble. It's crispy with wonderful almond and orange fragrances. It is perfect on its own and it's the best topping you would ever have on vanilla ice cream.

Carrot Soup With A Little Tang And Perk

Every weekend, I look over to Mr. L across the kitchen and ask "what would you like to eat this week?" just to see if he had anything on his mind. Last week, he smiled at me and said "soup, we should have some soup and make that carrot soup". Perfect, there is a bag of carrots that's been in the fridge! But carrot soup... It's so... It's carrots. I may not be a little kid anymore but I can't say that I love to eat them. I don't even like carrot cake and I LOVE cakes. There's a serious need to spice things up if I am going to make some carrot soup. Times like this, Google is my best friend. Waving the magic wand and voila, a carrot soup with much needed spicing up!

The recipe calls for an interesting combination of carrots, orange and ginger. The trouble with using oranges is that sometimes they don't taste very "orangy". I found these cute little orange things with knobs on the end of them in the grocery store. They are called Minneola tangelos, a funny fruit from crossing a grapefruit and a tangerine. I have no idea what they tasted like but a girl can have dreams for her tangelos to preform wonders in a carrot soup, no? The result is overwhelmingly tangy spicy carrot soup that will blow your socks off! The cheese bread that I bought from the store to go w/ the bread made a wonderful pairing. I need to figure out how to made some for the next time.