Finally, the vague recipe for yummy soup. Chop slices of carrot. Warm some brown sugar and a little bit of water in a pan. Dump the carrot in the sugar and cook until tender (and, one hopes, caramelized). In a different pan, saut�e some chopped scallion until mostly browned and add vegetable broth. Add some chopped tomato to the carrot pan, stir around to get at the excess sugar, and dump into broth pot. Add some ground cloves, salt, and maybe ground ginger and other spices to taste. Medium boil for a while and then simmer to desired thickness. I simmered away most of the liquid and some of my eaters thought it so hearty that its meatlessness surprised them.