tablescape thursday - Autumn reds - Tomato soup with 5 cereals, ginger and fresh herbs

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the 60th this week!!
happy Anniversay Susan! :)
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it is getting colder..in the last few days we have hade a very chilly wind.
today the temperature touched 16-17° I think.
probably this is one of our last lunch outside this year :(

it is soo beautiful though, the colours are very strong and the sun is shining so bright.
many trees have all the leaves on, and they are so green!
look at the wineyard behind our house, in the vally of Valquarole.
isn't it a beautiful green view?



anyway...a prepared the table on the terrace, with a decoration of leaves and seeds
from our Sycamore Maple ( acer pseduoplatanus) it makes beautiful green leaves looking as hands, very particolar flowers (green-yellow panicles) in spring, and now it has seeds or samars that are very decorative too. together with some orange coloured chilis and some strange berries from my Schefflera Actinophylla or Umbrella tree or Australian Ivy-palm.
it is a very easy growing plant, I have 3 of them with variegated leaves.

tablecloth is a piece of tissue, the napkins come from Coin

soup bowls and glasses, and the mini glass bowls are from Ikea
the small square sallad bowls are from Orvea supermarkets

to warm us up, what's better than a soup??? :)

Tomato soup with 5 cereals, ginger and fresh herbs

recipe from

Suppen und Eintöpfen

ed. Gräfe und Unyer GmbH

you need:

150gr of 5 cereals (mine were: oats, barley, spelt, whole wheat, buckwheat)

2 cm of fresh ginger

2 shallots

4 tbsp of extravergin olive oil

1 tbsp of vegetable stock cube

1,200gr of tomatoe sauce (4 cans of 400gr each , home made would be perfect)

fresh herbs (majoran, thymian, basil, chives)

1 clove of garlic

chop the shallots and let genlty fry in the olive oil, together with the garlic clove.

add the cereals and toast for 5 minutes, mixing all the time.

add the vegetable stock cube, the grated ginger and the tomatoe sauce and let cook for ca 15min.

it depends on what cereal you use and if they are organic or precooked or not.

adjust the time according to the cereals you use.

before serving, add the fresh choped herbes.

it is realy delicious. :)