By
some weird freak of nature I ended up with a couple of butternut squash plants
in a part of my garden where nothing had been planted. Winter squash needs a longer growing season
than we have here on the east side of Idaho so I let it grow more as a ground
cover. Still, the unusually warm fall
allowed my squash to mature.
I
really like baked butternut squash, but I was looking for another way to use my
bounty of big orange vegetables so when I saw Matt Lauer and his guest stirring up the ingredients for Butternut Squash Soup, I decided to give it a try.
The
method of cutting the squash vertical before peeling was a good idea. This squash hadn’t had time to form a really
hard skin so the first step was easy.
I
liked the colors of all the vegetable ingredients and it was an interesting and
fine idea to include chunks of a granny smith apple to add a bit of tartness.
I
put the apple, squash and other vegetables in my big, deep sauce pan,
added the olive oil and sautéed them as instructed in the recipe I found on the
today.com/food website.
When
the vegetables were caramelized and turning a golden color I added the chili
powder. I didn’t have any low sodium
vegetable broth so I stirred up some onion soup mix, then sprinkled in the sage.
I
brought the mixture to a boil and then simmered it until the squash was soft.
Since
there was the option of having chunky soup or pureed, I saved some out and sent
the rest through my blender.
Before
I served it, I stirred in the cream.
Then I tasted it.
Well….it was
better than the orange squash glop I hid in my milk carton at my grade school
cafeteria, but it came pretty close to the canned baby food I poked down my
kids when they were too little to know better.
Even when we added picante sauce to overcome some of the blandness, it
wasn’t real appetizing. I told DH he
didn’t have to pretend to like it. He declared,
“Not my favorite,” and had another grilled cheese sandwich. This may be one soup we will
sacrifice to the sink gods. Now that I
think about it, Al Roker’s verdict was pretty noncommittal, “Perfect butternut
soup weather.”
http://www.today.com/food/dress-easy-butternut-squash-soup-crispy-sage-leaves-t50246
4 comments:
anything that require that much prep does not win my adoration, I agree squash soup is baby foodish, not a fan! But kudos to you for the effort! The photos look delish!
I commend you for your effort, but it does not look appealing to me.
I always think I will like winter squash...so I either plant of buy one...then I remember that I DO NOT like winter squash....at all.
Linda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com
Ok I had a great comment in my head but lost it while laughing....sorry:) Hug B
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