Hi guys,

Hope every­one had a great weekend!

After the usual Mon­day mad­ness (I love it, though!), I returned home feel­ing cold, tired and hun­gry. I quickly grabbed my soup pot, turned on the stove and warmed up some olive oil over low heat. A diced onion, a few gar­lic cloves and some grated fresh gin­ger fol­lowed. Soon a won­der­ful fra­grance began to per­me­ate through­out the kitchen. I pulled the cau­li­flower out from the fridge and a cou­ple of slightly bruised golden deli­cious apples, which I had been mean­ing to make into an apple­sauce over the week­end. Oh well. I diced the apples (no need to peel), sep­a­rated the cau­li­flower into flo­rets and threw it all into the pot with a table­spoon of my favourite Madras curry paste and a touch of cin­na­mon. I added about 6 cups chicken broth, turned the heat up to boil and as soon as it started to bub­ble, I turned the soup down to sim­mer and patiently waited.

After about an hour, the cau­li­flower and apples had bro­ken down to a lovely thick soup but there was still more to do…I threw in a big hand­ful of fresh chopped cilantro and about ¹⁄₂ tsp garam masala which imparts a won­der­ful aroma and mys­te­ri­ous flavour to the final cre­ation. I poured it into the blender, whizzed it up till it became as smooth as vel­vet and then grabbed my spoon for a taste. Sheer heaven! The apples, with their lovely sweet­ness bal­ances the sub­tle heat of the curry for an unfor­get­table taste sen­sa­tion. A per­fect rem­edy for a cold winter’s day. You have got to try this. Enjoy!