not quite right

It was my night to cook for my friend tonight, and I had a lovely menu prepared:

Spicy pumpkin soup w/Mexican cream & toasted pepitas
Tomato & cucumber salad w/cilantro
Ficelle (small thin baguette)
(no dessert - we're taking the month off from sweets)

I won't post the soup recipe because it came out way too thin, despite the fact that I halved the amount of broth it called for. What were they thinking? But want I wanted to document here was how wonderful the crema and pepitas were. If the soup had been the proper weight, it would have been a most lovely presentation. If you have never made Mexican cream, try it sometime drizzled over any thick soup. Lentil or black bean come to mind. Just mix equal parts sour cream and heavy cream together, with a little lime juice and chill for two hours or up to a day. Mmmmm.