Saturday, February 14, 2015

Soups On!!!

Funny how something as simple as a soup recipe can open a floodgate of memories.

A recipe came my way yesterday morning as I was going through my email -- it was enclosed within a fitness pal - 15 hearty soups note. One of them Crockpot Roasted Tomato Garlic Soup!
There was Valentine's Day trip that David and I took many years ago. We were headed for a weekend VD getaway to Cambria, CA and we took a little side trip to a small town just north of Solvang -- Los Olivos. It was a small town but had several galleries and as we made our way through the main street we ended up at the Fess Parker Hotel...
there we had a wonderful lunch -- mine was Garlic Tomato Soup....
amazing, and ever since that day I have searched for a similar recipe.

So, as I sit here there is a batch of this soup in the crockpot and it smells incredible -- and the memories of that side trip return.

The walk after that great lunch...
a couple of purchases made at the galleries that day...
and introduction to the artist Eyvind Earle whose work I still happily turn to today for delight and inspiration..... a true artist of CA's central coast.

All from a soup recipe...
You never know...

Hope your Valentine's Day is made special in some way today!
Meanwhile,
soup's on at the Hughes.....


4 comments:

  1. That soup sounds wonderful for so many reasons. Cambria was the place Jim and I went for our very first weekend getaway a million years ago and it is still one of my favorite places. And, the Elverhoj Museum in Solvang, CA just closed an exhibit of the work of Eyvind Earle, including some pieces that had never been exhibited in public before, they were the things he had on his walls at home. You would have loved it. The funny thing is, I remember marveling at the background art in the movie Sleeping Beauty, way before I had any idea who he was. Happy Valentine's Day to you, Rose.

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    1. Sounds like my share brought back some fun memories for you too Lora! I also marveled at the backgrounds in Sleeping Beauty a long time before learning who had created them. Thanks for sharing your own memories of the coast -- hope you had a grand time yesterday making some new ones.

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