new hori­zons

-- September 12th, 2012 --
night table

Sep­tem­ber in Lon­don.  Life has resumed that fran­tic “Who’s com­ing to din­ner tonight?”, “When did I say we were going to that play?” and “Did I men­tion I won’t be home until 5 tomor­row because of drama?” and “Can you help me carry the ban­quet table to the kitchen for 30 vol­un­teer ladies to come to lunch tomor­row?” qual­ity.  Every morn­ing my email inbox is filled with sug­ges­tions of meet­ing times for Lost Prop­erty, for the school Christ­mas Fair, the church Christ­mas Fair, for vis­its to my Home-Start social work fam­ily, for spe­cial bell­ring­ing prac­tices and ring­ing for extra ser­vices, for weddings.

Some­times we have to put away the com­put­ers, set aside the home­work, switch the phones to “silent” and gather around the table for a bowl of restora­tive com­fort.  I promise you will never make or eat any­thing  more sus­tain­ing, more inspir­ing, more savoury, than this soup, the recipe for which has made its way to my lovely food­writ­ing site, Hand­Picked Nation.  Chicken meat­balls in a mag­i­cal herby broth!

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