what to cook?

So, I'm still half-reading a manuscript (not bad, might get bought!), but really I've been thinking for the last hour about what I'm going to eat. We're going skiing tomorrow (well, Sat morning at 4am, but that's basically tomorrow), and so I'm trying to use up everything I've got. This is:

- fresh Basil, in a half pint glass, drooping
- Carrots, slightly bendy
- Four radishes (3 - 2 - have eaten the radishes, so never mind about them)
- Two celery stalks
- possibly mice (keep seeing little whirrs of movement)
- Three peppers, one orange, one red, one yellow (they might last)
- An opened Camembert (mmmm)

I also possess a craving for comforting, not too fatty soup. The obvious soup to go for is the carrot, apple and celery soup that is obligingly sitting in my basic soup book - to be extra annoyingly perfect, it even requires a tablespoon of fresh basil. But it's cold and dark - I want something more velvety and obliging, not shouty and zingy. Am therefore going for Tom Conran's White bean and carrot soup from my posh, utterly delicious soup book, and adding celery (meh - it doesn't taste of that much anyway, if we're honest). I am therefore off to the shops and let's see how it goes...

All delicious looking so far - bubbling away...about to attempt pesto to use up the basil leaves. Hold onto your seats, people, clearly, this Thursday night's going to be a wild one... (it's actually amazing what I will do to avoid reading a manuscript)