Pumpkin Shrimp Soup

Weather is getting chilly,
it is such a comfort to have a bowl of
home made soup.

Invite some friends coming over
and share your creativity in cooking
in this holiday season.



3 pounds pumpkin, peeled and cut into 3/4-inch pieces
1/2 tablespoon finely chopped thyme
4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
1 small yellow onion, diced
3 cups chicken stock
1/2 cup dry white wine
3 bay leaves
1 pounds raw shrimp, peeled
1/4 cup heavy cream or crème fraîche
yellow onion

Sautee diced onion in 3 tablespoon of olive oil until tender, toss in the pumpkin pieces and thyme. Season with salt and white pepper. Sautee for 15 mins. Add 1 cup of chicken stock and simmer for another 15 mins until pumpkin is tender. Stirring occasionally. Cool and puree.

Thyme

Working in batches to puree the pumpkin mixture in a blender or food processor until smooth, then transfer back to the pot, add the rest of the chicken stock, wine, bay leaves and simmer for 10 mins. Check seasoning. Then add shrimp and low simmer for another 10 mins or cook until the shrimp turn pink.

Bay Leaf

Remove from heat and immediately whish in cream. Ladle into warm soup bowls and serve.

pumpkin

Serve 4


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Beautiful Living - Leather Bag.

For those men who adore bags.

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A hold-all from Hugo Boss.
Casual and stylish.

Those who love LV logo, this is the one to go.
A raised monogram suitcase from Louis Vuitton.

Brown woven leather bag from Bottega Veneta.
A great tote to go to design center!
I think this tote great for men
and chic for women.
Don't you think so?

Classic style bag from McQueen.
Timeless pieces.
Great bag for weekend going-away.
I love this bag!

Hugo Boss Bernini Leather holdall bag.
Elegant and stylish.
Perfect size for weekend going away.
Funky bag from Paul Smith.
Multi-purpose bag going around the city.

Holdall from Bric.
Great bag for go-away long weekend.

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Your Director Dream?

Which Director Chair Is For YOU?

So you have been thinking of becoming a film director?
- but not quite able to raise the million-dollar budget yet.
How about getting a director chair and enjoy being
a director this Christmas?

Hermes Pipa Chair
$24,000.00

Famed French luxury house Hermes
has come out with an ultra-luxe update on its classic
Pippa folding chair, finished in the world's finest matte
black crocodile skin. The limited edition campaign-style
chair is made of ebony finish maple with nickel plated hardware.

Ralph Lauren Leather Director's Chair
$5,187.00

Walnut finish with saddleback leather seat and back,
along with polished nickel feet.

William Sanoma Leather Director's Chair
$795.00

Chair has a hardwood frame fitted with polished-nickel hardware.
This chair is not designed to be folded as the original design.

Telescope Casual folding chair
with many color options
$99.00

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Beautiful Living - Art & Furniture

Michael Goedhuis Contemporary Gallery has just given another great exhibit of Chinese Contemporary art. The artist, You Si (游思), from Beijing, explores new possibilities of ink painting by using an eyedropper to deploy colors and ink on the xuan paper.

The artist is not shy with colors. One can see and feel in each piece of his art is filled with imaginations, emotions and rhythms. Each piece of art brings you to an unknown world, arouse your emotion, provoke your inspirations, increase your heartbeats, and you just want to get up and dance.

Michael Goedhuis
always looking great and always smiling!

The art inspires me and I can't help to group them with some of the furniture that caught my recent attention. I simply placed the furniture with the art the way I thought they compliment each other.

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You Si's Blossom
 Sofa from DDC

You Si's The Passage Between Space-Time
Cromwell sofa from Edward Ferrell + Lewis Mittman

You Si's Evolving Garden
 Sharon Sofa Bench from Bright

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You Si's The Wave in the Outer Space
 Chair from Rudin

You Si's Existing Dynamics
 Lorin Quilted Sofa from Bright

You Si's The Wave in the Outer Space
 Sofa from Rudin

You Si's Beginning of a Strange Point
Pair of Deco All Seasons China Chairs ( 1930s), Red Pagoda.

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Fall is getting deeper ... at Carl Schurz Park

Last breath of Fall ...
leaves are all gone ...
branches are bare
a few leaves still struggling

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World AIDS Day

December 1, 2009.
World AIDS Day.

In remembrance of so many loved ones.

The epidemic of AIDS and HIV infections
continues to haunt this globe.

Learn more about the disease, go to
http://www.worldaidsday.org/.