My friend Jana asked me if I knew a good recipe for squash soup. Well, here it is, Jana. We had this for dinner tonight and the kids want this in their lunch tomorrow! It is so yummy.
I used a butternut squash and an acorn squash (it may also be called a Dutch squash?)
First, I roasted the two different squashes in a 425' oven for 45
mins. with some olive oil, onion, celery, garlic, salt, pepper, and some fresh thyme & rosemary from the garden. I put a bit of water in the bottom of the roasting pan, too.
In a large soup pot, I slowly cooked one onion in a bit of butter & olive oil, then added the baked squash (after peeling it, of course) Add a few chopped garlic cloves, 6 or so cups of chicken broth, and some more fresh thyme. Cook this until the squash is very soft. I used a hand blender to puree the soup, but you also do this in batches in the blender. Add about 1/2 cup of heavy cream, and more water, if you think the soup is too thick. Salt & pepper to taste.
I roasted the seeds of the acorn squash in a bit of olive oil & sea salt, thinking I would use these little crunchy morsels to garnish the soup, BUT......(**shh**don't tell anyone)...
i burnt them! Oops! Trinity and I ate the not-too-too-blackened-ones, and they were pretty good.
However, I did use a cute cookie cutter to make star shapes with a bit of the butternut squash, then I sprinkled the stars with salt & pepper and browned them up in a bit of butter.
It's not that I don't have anything else to do, it's just that I would rather do this than fold laundry!
Here is Grace's soup. Oh, garnish with some fresh sage, too.
So we had, squash soup, bread, salami, an assortment of cheese, and a salad.
We served the meal with a rose (picture an accent over the last e) wine from France.
mmm
This was such a perfect autumn supper. Thanks for the great idea, Jana!
I was planning on making some
caramelized pears served over vanilla ice cream
for dessert, but the supper was quite filling, so we had
pomegranates instead.
Trinity is a little gypsy, or...hippy? Anyway, she is as cute as can be in the cakewalk. She won some horrible cupcakes that made her extremely hyper!
Grace is an angel. She won bingo about four times, and got lots of candy!
Heather is a flower fairy! In the background is Mary Margaret dressed up as a doll. Sweet.
Eva put on her own riding gear and went to the party as a dirt biker.
Thomas went to the party as a soldier. How many years in a row is this, Tom?
Felicity had a different Halloween party to go to, and is dressed as a mime. I love this costume!
Apparently I volunteered to bake some cakes for a Halloween party at the school. The kids were all hoping to win one in the cake walk. I thought that was pretty funny. Well, Mary Margaret did
Hi Heather.
Hola chicas.
Greg and I enjoyed a very nice dessert wine after our meal. mmm.
We also had some sliced calabrese sausage, devilled eggs, and a salad to go with the meal.
One of my favorite kitchen tools has got to be this apple-peeler-corer-slicer thingy.
The kids had this as their after school snack yesterday. mmm...
