Oh January! Sometimes you feel like the most boring month

Despite a friend's valiant attempt to feed me priced to clear avocados, I'm still sadly lacking in fruit department (is avocado a fruit? I could look it up, but I like the mystery of the unknown). I had my boyfriend over for dinner on Saturday night and I probably spent about an hour finding something suitably not boring to eat and less than an hour cooking it. I have acquired some cookbooks for seasonal cooking namely: 'The fabulous potato' (props to all my friends and family who have been fed extraordinary amounts of potatoes last winter. 'Eating by the Seasons' and a magazine publication by Canadian Living. Also, the LCBO's food and drink magazine makes great use of seasonal foods. Let's add a picture to keep your attention:

Unfortunately, I have no idea what is in the picture, but it looks tasty and its a front running for next time. Also it looks like it has tomatoes and cucumbers, which are still available, but the supply will likely be running out sometime soon, so I guess I had better hurry.

I finally decided on a potato omelet and pumpkin soup. Eggs and potatoes for protein and pumpkin for vitamins and fibre. The potato omelet was less than stunning. I think its essentially an excuse to use up potatoes, as opposed to something potatoes are actually delicious in. Also it called to whip the egg whites, which amounted to a lot of work (pulling out the mixer) for very little net delicious effect.

BUT I think the pumpkin soup turned out really nicely, so I'll include it here:
3 cups of cooked pumpkin ( I used canned, because that is what I had)
3 cups of broth or cream (I used broth because my dinner guest isn't into milk products)
1/2 tsp ginger

1/2 tsp cinnamon
Salt and pepper to taste
3/4 cup of heavy cream if you used the broth (I left this out, but it sounds delicious)

You'll notice the picture has garnish and my recipe has none. Well, that is because I shamelessly stole the picture which is far better looking than my soup. But I still think my soup was tasty, and hopefully provided me with some fibre and vitamin C because those are two things I feel like I'm lacking right now.

I'm trying to get some apples ordered from Hall's orchard, but for some reason my order is 'still waiting to be processed'. I'm probably going to cave and buy apples from Loblaws even though I have great suspicions that they have traveled over 1000 kms to get to my door. Tonight, I dream of vitamin C!