A lovely soup for a cold evening (and we have plenty of these now…). And vegan (unless you add the cream of course).

The star of this dish is the ginger. It gives the sauce this spicy (but not hot) flavour, slightly then lightened by the lemongrass and coconut milk, which in the end beautifully marries with crispy shrimp. It can be an appetizer, or a main dish (depending how many prawns you want to serve per person),
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A lazy Sunday dinner. I shopped on Saturday morning, in between taking the kids to different activities, without really having any meal plan in my head. I tried to stay healthy so I got lots of veggies and this is what it ended up as 🙂 Smoked bacon could have done as well as chorizo,
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Carrots. Sweet, beautiful and colorful. Often overcooked, and then losing the color, the sweetness and the crunchiness. A perfect recipe for carrots should underline the sweetness and natural flavor, put the carrots in the center of things, just like this one.  

Up until last week, I have seen these carrots in cooking magazines only. They were mentioned as ‘the forgotten vegetables’. Apparently carrots used to be violet and yellow but we no longer remember it! I am pretty sure they have been orange since I was little but maybe it was my grandma who forgot. Anyway,
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