HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Nutmeg sat up when she received an email from her girlfriend, Wild Rice, who had trained in the kitchen at cooking school in London. It was not the cheery note that grabbed Nutmeg’s attention, but rather the new recipe that was contained in the text, a warm blend of pumpkin and Thai flavours. This recipe is not from the famous cooking school, there is no need to be chef material, read on, anyone can make this simple soup.
For Nutmeg this is a terrifying blog post, so it is fitting that it arrives just in time for Halloween. Ginger and Nutmeg left Calgary on September 30, 2010. Nutmeg has quite happily not set foot on Canadian soil for 13 months. What is so scary? They are headed back to Calgary in the darkest, coldest month of the year! Here are some fun statistics from their time abroad:
35,000 Kilometers driven in the trusty car by Ginger
15,000 Roundabouts
8,000 Photos documenting the year
5,000 Toll booths
395 Number of days since Nutmeg has been in Canada
395 Wine bottles consumed more or less
150 Number of times Nutmeg went to a market
150+ Bike rides
50+ Churches visited
35+ Hikes
18 Ski days at new resorts
15 Gap T-shirts
13 Provencal deserts at Christmas time
8+ Concerts
4 Ferry rides: to Corsica and Sardinia
4 Pairs of runners
3 Masks from the Venice Carnival
5 Cooking lessons
5 Countries Visited:France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, UK
