Carrot Soup with Coconut and Lemongrass "It's a soup day!" I thought to myself yesterday as the spouse got ready to go out shopping. "I'll run downstairs, choose a soup and give Dinks a list of ingredients." Too late! He'd already left the house. I cast an eye over our cookery books, considered Keith Floyd 's Floyd on Fish briefly but then chose The Soup Book . "A summer vegetable soup, I think," I said to myself. The book practically opened itself at this carrot soup recipe. We had onions, garlic, garlic, ginger, coconut milk and other ingredients. I rang the spouse and ordered carrots, lemongrass, red Thai curry paste and kaffir lime leaves. The latter wasn't available at our usual shop so I strolled down to Young Stephen's, not really expecting him to have them in stock. There he was, too absorbed in singing along to Return to Sender to pay me any attention so I checked myself what was available on the herb and spice ra...