Spicy Pumpkin Soup with Coconut Milk

Here's a recipe for a quick and easy pantry soup
that just so happens to be gluten-free.

Cleaning out the pantry always makes hungry. Come to think of it, so does packing. And lugging laundry. But the truth is, this time of year- anything can make me hungry. I could blame it on shorter daylight. Or the jarring touch of the cold tile floor when I tumble out of bed barefoot and sleepy and weave through boxes of books and movies to locate my tea mug, gone missing since three PM yesterday when I set it down- goddess knows where- to help my husband wrap one of my forty-eight-inch abstracts.

All of it makes me hungry.

But here's my top ten.

Things That Make Me Hungry

1. The relief of selling the house after 30 months of showings and price reductions and contracts falling through
2. The excitement of starting over
   
3. Letting go of the outgrown (again)
4. Snapping a photo of my last full moon in the desert
   
5. Finding childhood photographs of Colin and Alex on the beach
6. Realizing we'll be gone before the second anniversary of the hip incident
   
7. Finding a fourth floor studio to rent- six blocks from Santa Monica beach
   
8. The sheer joy of shedding stuff
9. Buying tickets to The Canyon showing at Grauman's Chinese Theater
   
10. Thinking about tomorrow rather than yesterday

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