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Carrot Ginger Soup

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Carrot Ginger Soup

Take as many carrots as you can in two hands, take their hats and coats off and put them into a nice bath of cold water, turn up the heat and let them dance.

Introduce them to an exotic new partner named Ginger Fresh.

Let them each bring a friend…Carrot will invite Lemon because she is a tart and full of spunk! Surely Fresh Ginger will bring Curry because he is easy to blend, and has a subtle softness about him.

Don’t forget to serve white wine that night, it aids the conversation.

Add a bouquet of laurel, celery and onion let them do the tango in a hot pot.

Blend the music smooth and lace it with cream.

Note: Matchmaking is brewing…I’ll give you a clue…. Many of you have asked if French husband has a brother. He doesn’t but he does have a nephew. Very single, very handsome. I said that on my blog several months ago. Well to cut to the chase…Miss Eva from Sunny Side-Up (not her real name…I’m not that revealing….) is flying across the big blue to meet him. Carrot Ginger Soup!

Thursday my home because Matchmakerville, do you want to be a fly on the wall? Come on you know you do!!

Comments

53 responses to “Carrot Ginger Soup”

  1. marcie knowles

    Ohhh just to fun!!! What a lucky girl,,he is a handsome gent , We are all wishing we were a fly on a wall for this one. Sigh… romance,,it’s so nice.

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  2. TACE

    Your soup sounds delicious, luckily I’m already having some homemade soup or I might have drooled on my keyboard reading your description!
    I don’t think I ever heard tell of some one actually playing match maker before. It sounds very interesting and I hope it goes well!

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  3. x

    All these ingredients ( soup+FHN) are promise of Bliss and Good Fortune.
    Eva, i wish you FHN wood be your ADAM and 2008 wood be your year …………
    SSS

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  4. Jeanne

    Ooooh La La
    I love your stories, recipes and YOU
    You are divine darling!
    Love Jeanne ^j^

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  5. rel

    Corey,
    OO-la-la, there are plenty of spices to excite the tastes in matchmakerville!
    rel

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  6. tut-tut

    My goodness! What else can a blog do??

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  7. Miss Maddie’s

    Never mind the soup I think you better go get that silver tray you had us guess an get the champagne chilling!
    There’s a book in here somewhere.Sweet Eva travels across the ocean to the south of France and is introduced to this charming young man.Unknowingly cupid(Corey) has plans for these two…
    Susan

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  8. Terri

    You know, it isn’t really fair the even a price sign for carrots when written in French looks “sexy” somehow….sigh? How can we poor American bloggers compete with that? LOL
    I may have to try that recipe tomorrow…It’s soup night!
    God bless.
    Terri

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  9. Beverly

    Thursday…I’ll be there!
    And the soup sounds so good…I might try that on Thursday too!

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  10. Vicki

    Corey….you are so wonderful and fun….who else could make a recipe sound so intriguing???? Your blog always makes me smile!!! Let us know how the soup turns out on Thursday.

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  11. Paula

    My oh my, now this is a real adventure ! How exciting !
    Corey that soup sounds pretty darned good. I know you don’t do recipes, so I’ll have to look at your description a bit before making….as I most assuredly will do !
    Isn’t life just great ????? Corey, YOU MAKE MY DAY !

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  12. phyllis

    Consider me a fly!

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  13. Shannon

    So what will happen if they fall for each other? Will there be another ex-pat to hang out with you?
    I LOVE this stuff. You better give up the goods after the big meet!

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  14. Dee

    Count me in as one of the flys! And I promise NOT to take flight and land on the Carrot Ginger Soup!

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  15. jeni

    Who knew carrots could look so good?
    I can’t wait till Thursday. Match maker match maker make me a match..find me a find..catch me a catch.
    Good luck as you serve your magic love potion!!

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  16. beachy

    And it is so close to Valentine’s Day! You’ve chosen a perfect time to do your work, Corey!

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  17. Mary

    I played ‘matchmaker’ in Dec. 2006 – introduced my hairstylist to my building contractor, both of whom have been my long time friends. A month later she was sporting a diamond, and just this past Oct. they tied the knot on the beach in Costa Rica…….and they only shared a Starbucks latte at their first meeting!! They an an adorable couple and so very happy.
    Know your romantic soup recipe could be the clincher here!! I’ll be buzzing around with the other flies in your gorgeous dining room Corey.

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  18. patpaulk

    The soup sounds delicious, may I have some???

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  19. Massilianana

    Ohlala ! Sounds there is going to be the most delicious type of electricity in the air !!! Add one more fly on your wall 🙂 !
    PS : I just love those ardoises , every time I go back to Marseille , I buy a new one , just to write the day’s menu in the kitchen or shopping lists .

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  20. Sheila

    I can see you now Corey…swathed in ribbons, wings fluffed, bow and arrow at the ready…or is it a soup ladle..?
    I most surely want to be a fly on the wall, keep us posted..
    hugs
    xx

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  21. susanna

    Look at you being Miss Matchmaker, Corey! Well, if you have the magic touch with matchmaking as you do with collecting, decorating, photography and writing,then FHN (French Husband’s Nephew) and Miss Eva will be winking at each other over dinner!
    And I have to tell you, Corey, that I found this month’s issue of Victoria Magazine this morning at the grocery store and your photographs are freakin’ amazing! I am sincerely blown away by your talent, Corey.

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  22. Lorene

    You little devil you! LOL!!! I can see it now. You must have a twinkle in your eye as you are preparing this meeting. I can’t wait to here how it turns out. And I do remember you discussing your nephew. And if my memory serves me right you had a picture of him and he was quite handsome. Good Luck! I hope it turns out perfectly!

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  23. Country French Antiques

    What a wonderful way with words you have!
    You REALLY should write a book!!
    I’d be the first in line to buy it

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  24. Rosemary

    Hi Corey,
    Soup sounds good, fly on the wall sounds even better.
    Rosemary

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  25. Marie-Noëlle

    I can be a fly everywhere !
    On the wall, on a carrot, on a crystal glass, on one silver chubby cherub, on a yard of lace, on an unfolding fan, … even on a vintage green armchair … !!!

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  26. Aina

    WOW!! I am speachless Corey!!
    I just received a package all the way from Canada, I won a contest, a lovely bag from Rosehip and guess what, she sent me the latest issue of “Bliss Victoria” Magzine. And there it was, your amazingly beautiful home!! Oh, I was thinking to myself, what a fantastic home, so i looked your name up at the internet. And it was you!Yes, it did then not cross my mind. I discovered your blog a few months back, and sinds then I have been amazed about the beautiness in your little world.
    I just wanted to tell you, how happy I am, and what a wonderful inspiration you are, thank you!
    Aina x

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  27. deirdre

    The soup sounds delicious. I’ve even got a bag of carrots I need to do something with. Yum.
    I love a good bit of matchmaking. Richard’s sister, one of my best friends, was our matchmaker.

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  28. Franca Bollo

    Well, Sheba does like them young. I wish her un bon voyage. Bring back des cadeaux!! (or should that be les cadeaux or neither — probably the latter as ma français suques)

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  29. pam

    Of course I want to be a fly on the wall!!! I want to see all of the love arrows flying, and watch the blush on their faces when they first set eyes on each other. Oh, I do love a good romance, especially when its petal-soft buds only just begin to blossom and bloom… at that moment in time there is nothing else in the world that matters! Please keep us posted! Have you and Yann any 50-something single men friends…?

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  30. Kitem

    This is a marvellous recipe, dancing humming colorful story telling. I also will be a fly on the wall with all your friends.

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  31. stljoie

    Well I can’t be a fly on the wall but…you could post pictures…I hope it’s successful.

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  32. Colette

    Love and soup, the perfect combination!

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  33. April

    Ooooh, it all sounds delicious!!

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  34. Kim H

    Imagine an entire cookbook written by Corey! Ohhh my.
    And for the way you transport us out of our daily lives and fly us to Paris with every post… I’ve awarded you a Purple Lion on my blog at http://www.acrossthelana.blogspot.com
    You so deserve it!

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  35. Amy

    Carrots. I never liked them until this year. My mother forced me to eat them as a child because I had terrible vision.
    I love them steamed now. 😀
    How exciting! A French romance in the making!!

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  36. Annie

    Ahhh, Corey. I’m swooning. My daughter is 23. Are there anyMORE nephews???? My wings are poised and ready to land in a excellent viewing spot on the wall. Wheeee.

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  37. stephanie

    If all recipes were written like this I might be able to cook!
    Yes, yes, will be a fly on the wall here….

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  38. Maddy

    Oh that was wonderful, just reading the recipe, I can’t imagine the effect of the soup ooh la la!
    Now tell me, do you say one euro and fifty cents or one euro and fifty euro cents? What is the correct way to say less than one euro??? I have no idea!!!

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  39. martina

    Is that the handsome nephew in the French Air Force? I think you posted a photo of him at his military graduation last year.

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  40. Lea

    I knew the minute I saw the soup recipe… that it was part of the magic brew that only YOU could cook up…
    I really do think you need me and Cynthia there though… who is going to keep you in line???

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  41. AmandaMay

    I am a huge fan of carrot ginger soup. We used to make it at a cafe where I worked, and I blame it entirely for the 15 or so pounds I gained over that year or so. Of course, the huge cinnamon rolls probably didn’t help either, or the pecan pie bars…
    Do you know the Dress a Day blog? I thought you and the crafty sleuths around here would enjoy this fashionable mystery: http://www.dressaday.com/2008/01/mystery-in-cathedral.html

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  42. ~Kim

    I look forward to being a “fly on the wall” and watching how the romance brews! 🙂
    P.S. Thanks for your comments on my blog. Fun that we have both been in youth ministry. 🙂

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  43. sage

    I wish you and yours a wonderful and healthy new year.
    hugs,
    sage

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  44. sage

    I wish you and yours a wonderful new year.
    hugs,
    sage

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  45. rochambeau

    How deliciously exciting! Love could be in the air and undoubtedly the carrot~ginger soup!!

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  46. Pam Aries

    Woo hoo… that is some spicy recipe alright! hee hee!

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  47. Ellen Cassilly

    It sounds great! I can’t wait. I think that I remember Mathieu from long ago. Ellen Do you have a great recipe for Galette des Rois? I made four cakes this weekend. All of them tasted fine but only one started to look like I wanted it to. Practice does make perfect. The recipe was from Petitvillier.
    Later, E

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  48. Elaine L.

    I have a feeling that is a “love Potion” you’re whipping up. From the picture, Sacha resembles your nephew. It must be the eyes.
    Still have to say, that FH, is still the handsomest one.
    ~elaine~

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  49. delphine

    all i can say is…..actually i don’t know what to say…..i have the biggest smile on my face!!!!!!!!!
    xo!! delphine

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  50. lindsay

    I love what your cooking up! I remember a picture posted of this nephew and your husband. Two very delicious men indeed!

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  51. Hasmin

    Oh, save me a space on that wall…hope sparks fly!!!

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  52. tommie

    this weekend it is supposed to be cool, I just might have to find a good soup recipe to warm our bellies!

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  53. Alison Whittington

    That is the prettiest recipe I ever read. If all recipes were written like that, I might kick my husband out of the kitchen and take over the cooking.
    And, oooh, the matchmaking! Lovely! Can’t wait to hear more… so romantic!

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