Soup Fever

It's finally Christmas break! The end of my first semester was definitely stressful but I made some good food and snapped some funny pics during it all. 

This is what a med school classroom looks like right before an exam. 

My brother still kills me in Words with Friends. Now he's started to give me the definitions of the words he plays. You know, to help me out.

Ah, my first experience with leeks. I really like them but had never cooked with them before. I got these babies at a farmer's market and they were so fresh. 

(I know, next time I'll do a midline cut before chopping. Lesson learned.)

I wasn't sure if the greens were called for in the recipe, so I threw in a few.

I didn't take a finished pic of this potato leek soup because it looked disgusting. I was a little overzealous with the blending and it looked like prison slop from a movie. But it tasted good!

I took a break from a VERY long anatomy lab to eat a snack and get some fresh air. I carefully peeled the plastic off the whole container, only to flip it onto the floor with my ring. Ugh.

You know how birds fly south for the winter? They come to Miami. They're EVERYWHERE!

I was on a soup kick so I opened up my pinterest food board and made a creamy tomato basil. It's mostly a crock pot recipe so I prepped it and left it while I went to biochem review.

Here we are after cooking all afternoon. A bunch of parm ready to go in.

Near the end I put in the cream and parm and fresh basil. That I grew. 

See? So good with the sourdough we got at the farmer's market. 

Can you tell we like the farmer's market?

Jeni caught the soup fever and made this Guinness stew. She threw everything in before we went to bed and ladled it out when we woke up. So good I'm making it for my mom tomorrow.

Tis the season for people to sell their belongings in awkward places.

See what I mean?