It hit 100 F. again today, which is pretty hot even with the dry desert air. In summertime, especially, I take a nap about noon to sleep through part of the hottest part of the day and today was no exception. It’s not hard to get to sleep as I’m usually awake at 5 AM, though I don’t always rise right away.
Anyway, that’s my explanation for rising at nearly 2 PM with a craving for cream of celery soup. Because I dreamed about it. Not having a good recipe for it, a Google search quickly provided “The BEST Cream of Celery Soup Recipe”, which of course was my immediate choice. I mean, if it’s the best…
So yes, I printed the recipe and followed it closely and I’ll tell you it’s the best cream of anything soup I’ve ever had, and that’s saying a lot because creamy soups have always been my favorite.
Normally I’d keep a secret like this to myself but since it’s too late and I already blurted out what I typed into Google to find it, the URL is https://www.daringgourmet.com/homemade-cream-celery-soup/
Seriously. This is amazingly good soup, which takes me to the rest of this tale, about my weight. Most of my many readers will recall that I went on a dieting jag a year, or has it been more now… ago… and dropped 25 pounds down to 145 pounds, from my formerly ponderous self. Being 5ft, 8.5 inches in statuesque stature, all that extra blubber was in my way of doing things, like bending over while sitting down, for example. It took a lot of effort of will over a long time and now when I step on the scale, if my weight tops 146, alarm bells go off and my apatite shuts off on it’s own.
So instead of wolfing down this extraordinary soup, it went into little plastic tubs that were labeled and stashed in the freezer. I’d had about a half cup just from “sampling” it before doing this and knew it was now or never to separate myself from that soup. Within the week one of those tubs will become a fine lunch, it won’t just sit there and grow ice crystals and the thing is, now that my apatite is in good control, there will be a few more soup lunches in the future after that.
Of course, more can always be made, unless another nap and a new craving for something different should strike when I least expect it. You never know about these things.