Creamy Detox Soup Recipe with Coconut Milk

An easy, creamy vegan soup ~ gluten-free.

It's hard not to feel anxious these days. So much barking and blinking and chest thumping. So much posing and strutting, and grinding, voracious greed.

It's mighty tough for a sensitive soul (prone to bouts of worry) to cope with all the mishegas in our overheated plugged-in self-promoting culture. To find a little respite. A little simple nourishment. That is why I am sharing another soup recipe. Just in case there is a kindred spirit out there in need of a bowl of creamy veggie comfort. A gluten-free vegan detox soup worthy of Peter Rabbit's sneaky excursions into Mr. McGregor's garden (a mischievous little rabbit- or as we like to say in my house... BUNNY!- close to my own greens nibbling heart).

And bunnies aren't known for twerking on YouTube, or filibustering, or bullying, or, in general, wreaking havoc. Unless you count Peter's root vegetable stealing. Or (my sons' favorite) mischievous Max and his devouring love of chocolate chickens (have you read the Max books?).

Bunnies are ostensibly devoted to a milder temperment.

And qualities like kindness and beauty and gentleness.

Traits easily trampled in our thundering, gun toting, zombie killing 3-D pyrotechnics loving culture.

So it seemed only fitting I cook up a batch of vegan soup today as fresh and non-toxic as could be.

Creamy, good-for-you soul food.

Ask any bunny.

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Watermelon Gazpacho with Lime

Refreshing watermelon gazpacho. Serve cold, cold, cold.

Happy August. The Dog Days of Summer are upon us. The Back To School Sales have commenced. Evenings are shorter, sultry and sticky and it's too damn hot to cook. Here in our sweet little Santa Monica sublet the modest act of baking two potatoes nudges our ambient temperature to a hot flash inducing tie-dyed t-shirt peeling UGG tossing fever pitch. I pace and prowl for air like the downstairs yellow cat who slinks into our kitchen unnoticed despite his thunderous girth. I stick my sweaty matted head out the kitchen door inhaling the hope of an onshore breeze.

My restless, itchy body you see is trying to ignore the calendar.

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