The daylight hours are getting shorter and shorter and we're still on Daylight Savings Time. I can feel winter getting closer, and I took some time to appreciate the goodness that is the Upper Haight/Cole Valley Farmers Market. I love stopping by after work on Wednesday during the summer and filling up with so many fresh vegetables that I have trouble going through them by the time the next Wednesday rolls around (which reminds me I still have some green beans in the fridge which need cooking). I'm having a little anticipatory farewell anxiety for the "fall" of the farmers' market.
Also, I can't tell if it's allergies or Folsom weekend exhaustion but my sinuses and eyes are all crazy this week, and I was so happy to burl up last night and make a pot of soup. I can make soup like Minnie can fry up chicken. And it can cure what ails you.
I was thinking carrot-dill soup, but all the vendors were out of fresh dill. There harvest squash galore and I thought I would try cooking a rather pumpkin-looking one with the red pepper and carrot soup, and throw it in with some chicken broth and a head a garlic, an onion, some german butter potatoes, fresh ginger and white beans. (the potatoes and the beans act as a creamy thickener, and adds some good protein and fiber). Cooked, pureed, and salt, pepper, and dried dill to taste. Lunch, dinner, lunch, repeat.
Holy harvest I can make a soup! I am loving this. And am going to try all sorts of new harvest squash.
This is kind of cool. Not to poke at the debate and hatred of the tech busses in the City, but the SFist news story on the new deal between the city and the tech bus operators ran with one of my photos. 
