Pumpkin Soup

Now that I’m not quite as sick I wanted some food- but not to go shopping- humm- I’ve got a pumpkin and some potatoes – sick people eat soup- I should have soup, kind of a stone soup- whatever is in the kitchen that’s not moldy goes in. My experiment included

A onion – browned with some garlic, ginger and a HOT little red pepper

Add 1 pumpkin, and a hand full of potatoes, some old tomatoes and some water, chicken bullion

Cook, blend

Toast the pumpkin seeds, chop parsley -Top - eat

Then get lots of water due to the fact that little pepper was freaking hot – I like hot and it is still hot- makes you sweat and want more at the same time

Civiche

With all the fresh fish available I feel guilty cooking it- since its so fresh and good - but tuna sashimi and sushi is only exciting a few times a week. So, remembering how good the fish was in Ecuador, I thought I’d try some civiche. Worked like a charm

One huge chunk of yellow fin

Cut the skin, bones and blood meat away,

Chop into cubes

Add a chopped onion, tomato or two, cilantro, some slat, maybe a pepper

Enough lemon juice to cover the tuna and the juice of an orange

Stir and stick in the fridge

Serve to hungry paddlers