Recipe: Roasted Green Vegetable Soup [omg]

Sunday, April 6, 2025

I make this soup on repeat in the winter. It's like a winter salad...don't skimp on the lemon juice. It's basically roasted garlic, broccoli, and lemon juice flavored! Great with a slice of sourdough bread.

Roasted Green Vegetable Soup

Ingredients

• 3 Tbsp olive oil
• 1 leek/onion/shallot, diced
• 1 head garlic, top lopped
• 1 broccoli, chopped
• 1 zucchini, sliced
• sprinkling of spices/za'atar
• 1x 32oz box chicken stock
• 15oz can butter beans (or cannelini beans)
• 1c frozen peas
• 2 handfuls spinach
• juice of 1/2 a lemon

Directions

1. Roast for 25 minutes at 400 deg: olive oil, leek/onion/shallo, garlic, broccoli, zucchini, spices/za'atar
2. Boil for 5-7 mins: chicken stock, beans, peas
3. Add roasted vegetables, spinach, and juice of 1/2 a lemon
4. Blend until smooth

MeMade Clothing: Ashton Top to make a matching set

Sunday, March 30, 2025

These Winslow culottes were wasting away in the closet, partially because the rise is a bit too high, but also partially because I didn't know what to wear it with. Cue...a matching shirt!
A Helen's Closet size 14 with petal sleeves attachment, an inch added to the length for tucking in. French seams where it made sense to do so, as always. Fabric is Blackbird Fabrics Viscose Crepe in 'Bluestone'. 'Doesn't need ironing if I water-spray it before leaving the house!

Fail: Zucchini Ricotta Quiche

Sunday, March 23, 2025

Maybe this Zucchini-Ricotta Quiche from Sweet Peas and Saffron isn't meant to be frozen and thawed, because it had some serious soggy bottoms! The other quiches I made for my quiche party came out well, but I've posted about them before on the blog: spinach sheet pan quiche, bacon tart, and a sausage veggie breakfast quiche from AllTheHealthyThings.

MeMade Clothing: Three Ashton Tank Tops

Sunday, March 16, 2025

These are not my first Helen's Closet Ashton Tops, because they're so quick and don't take much fabric! This first one is a Rifle Paper Co. Viscose in navy 'Estee'. A size 14 with bias binding for the neckline, the full-length version, with an inch added for height. Slightly messed up a hack here with front neckline lowered 2.25” and shaped into a gentle V-neck, but print is so busy, you can't even tell I had to pleat the V. French seams where it made sense to do so, as always.

The Gingham is similar to the first top, but I scooped out the front neckline a bit to have some variety. It's Joann Fabrics viscose that I've used before, a scrap from another top I made. The Indian blockprint is a duplicate of the gingham, also made with a scrap from another top.

Summer 2024

Sunday, March 2, 2025

Summer, amirite?

It's comingggggg. I can almost feel it, lol.

2024 Garden Happenings

Sunday, February 16, 2025

In mid-June, I decided I wanted to grow strawberries in the garden. I got 25 earliglow junebearing strabwerry roots for ten dollars. 'Figured I was planting late, so even if only half of them made it, that'd be a good deal. Way more than half of them made it...

To make room for the strawberries, I had to move the purple asparagus to the open garden, where the rest of my asparagus is. 'Turns out the critters don't eat it, so asparagus doesn't need to be behind a fence! Most resources recommend against moving mature crowns, and just using new crowns. But I figured I had a bed of these old ones, so might as well use them. But I also got 20 new purple passion asparagus crowns for twenty dollars, also cheap, and also late in the season to be planting. But most of them came up. Now we just gotta wait another 2 years to be able to harvest from this new asparagus patch!

I also dug out a clump of chives to make room for three Victoria Rhubarb roots which really blew up by the end of summer! It was a real edible-perennial planting time around these parts! Excited to see what it all looks like this upcoming summer.