Thai Tomato Soup Recipe (Vegan, Gluten Free, Paleo)

In these dark January days as I trudge towards spring I long to taste summer in a bowl. This Thai Tomato Soup coaxes earthy summer sweetness from tinned tomatoes and hints at exotic lands where the warm winds lift your hair.

Under the ground, deep in the earth among the roots of the trees, the little root children were fast asleep all winter long. They didn’t feel the biting wind, the cold snow or the stinging hailstorms. They slept peacefully in their warm burrows. They were dreaming wonderful dreams, of the sunshine in which they had played all through the summer.

When at last winter came to an end, and the sun began to melt the snow, Mother Earth came along with her candle to wake them up.

-Sibylle von Olfer

A pile of freshly aired eiderdowns, soft as snow, blanketed our childhood winters. The New England wind blew through our unheated third floor apartment and we three girls entered a state of cozy known only to bears in dens and mice in straw piles.

In the frosty mornings our mother fed us hearty breakfasts at the dining-room table where our exhaled laughter steamed the air between bites of thick pancakes and sips of strong coffee. We’d walk off to our respective schools wearing our Salvation Army coats ready to slay the many dragons young children slay in their school days.

Arriving home in late afternoon as the sun slanted winter pink in the drifting snow we became again the root children (our true selves) snuggled in our burrow.

Mother Earth and my flaxen haired sister woke me in March each year on my birthday with lit candles, a song and the promise of winter’s end.

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