Creamy carrot soup

Last week when I went to the supermarket, I bought some carrots without checking my fridge first (which, as you guessed, was full of carrots ...) So I started thinking of carrot recipes and decided to make a carrot and leek soup. This soup is really creamy and even a little sweet tasting. Without telling my girls what the soup was made of, I had them taste it and even though they didn't love it, they didn't hate it either. Next time, they might even eat it!

Ingredients:

3 medium carrots
2 leeks (you can also subsitute with onions)
1 cup chicken broth
salt and pepper
1/2 cream


In a pot add the sliced carrots, the chopped up leeks (or onions) and the chicken broth. Boil for 10 min or until the carrots are tender.

Wait for the soup to cool and then pure it, either with a hand blender or a conventional one.

This next step is the most important one. When you add the cream to the soup, you have to stir vigorously.
Then heat it and serve it to your guests and they'l love it!

Easiest carrot cake

I find myself living in Chile after spending 15 years in Argentina and everywhere I go people ask me for my recipes for American style cakes. I love to cook blueberry muffins, carrot cake, pineapple upside down and people in South America love the tast but can't find the recipes for it. So I'm going to start with a very simple recipe, which is a carrot cake.

These are the instructions for the cake which is really fast to make, prep time is only assembling the ingredients and mixing for 3 minutes:

1 cup self-rising flour
1 cup sugar (I prefer to use 1/2 cup white sugar and 1/2 cup brown sugar)
1/2 cup oil (I use a little less)
2 egss
1 teasponn cinnamon
1 and 1/2 cups shredded carrots
Preheat your oven to 325° F and in a bowl combine all of the ingredients together. With an electric mixer beat for 3 minutes at fast speed (start at slow speed

then go up).

Pour into a greased and lightly floured 9 x 1 1/2 round baking pan. Bake for 40 min (although mine is ready sometimes at 30 minutes so check with a toothpick)