Spinach Soup

When you start eating healthy, it usually means you are becoming more responsible (which of course, means you are growing old! Ugh!) But when I find tasty ways of eating healthy, I do not regret it one bit. This Spinach Soup is one such totally cool recipe that I doesn't make me feel even one bit that I am eating healthy. Here is the recipe link: Spinach Soup. I followed the recipe as is and I loved the end product. One tip: make sure you completely grind the soup to a really smooth consistency without any left out pieces. If there are solids left behind, to me personally, it spoils the experience :). Also, judge for yourselves, if you want to add some raw spinach as the recipe suggests. It adds a really good color but if you feel that your spinach didn't look very clean or if it has stayed in your refrigerator for a couple of days then just don't risk eating raw spinach.

This soup also taught me one very valuable lesson, for which Karthik and I had to pay a very heavy price of completely cleaning the kitchen and all its exposed components. When using a Indian style mixer to grind something that contains a lot of liquids in it, either make sure you are strong enough to fight the mixer's urge to throw off the lid, or just don't do it. Instead use a blender (mixers do not come with blender and juicer attachments for no apparent reason). I, of course, learnt it the hard way, after my entire kitchen and myself included, got bathed in a mixture of hot chicken stock and milk :(. Amma's tip: When you grind a mixture of liquids and solid pieces like that, make sure you pour in the solids first and once they are ground, you can then add the liquids and mix it up.