SW: Butternut Squash Soup (Guest Post)

Karen was super sweet and did an excellent write-up for this, making my life so much easier. (No really.) Let's just say, managing soup week and nano at the same time was not a great idea. So thank you, Karen, for making life easier for me. Now go read!

OH! And eat this soup. As Karen will mention, I've eaten it, and it's TAAAAAAAAAAASTY.

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It’s soup week (and it’s fall), which means it’s time for one of my favorite soups. We got into making soups around the same time that we moved to the Midwest, because there’s really nothing better than hot, rolls into your stomach goodness on a cold fall evening. Although we need no reason to make this soup, the origin for this soup in soup week is because Audrey was afraid to cook with butternut squash. (Something about a bad experience.) David was so appalled that he rounded up the whole family and made them soup, which honestly sounds like a huge win for Audrey and company! And since he’s off writing for NaNo, I get to write the blog entry!

Butternut Squash Soup-Thursday
Modified Recipe, or as David says,
"Found and rescued from the somewhere in the bowels of the internet."

Ingredients:
1 butternut squash, peeled, seeded, and cubed (~1”)
1 onion, diced
4 small apples (or 2-3 normal-sized apples), peeled, cored, and diced
2 thick slices of bread
chicken broth to cover (~48 ounces, but this can depend on how large
your squash is)
~1 tbsp rosemary
salt and pepper to taste (although, it really just needs a dash of
pepper, and really no salt)

Prep:
Put everything in a large pot and add the chicken broth to cover.
Bring the pot to a simmer, and cook for 45 minutes, or until the
squash is tender. Puree (either with an immersion blender or with a
more traditional blender) and serve. If you want to be really fancy,
you can garnish the top with heavy cream or cheese. (Or 1% milk, if
you don’t stock fancy things like cheese and cream.)

For David’s more colorful rendition (and in-prep pictures!), see:
http://www.evokewonder.com/twentyfingers/2010/09/d-butternut-squash-soup/

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Okay, so regarding the bad squash experience. The ONE time I tried to do something with butternut squash, I apparently got the evilest squash to ever grace the planet. It oozed some icky sticky liquid that was impossible to wash off my hands, and then, after I spent TWO hours cooking a bisque that I had had before and found incredibly tasty, my pot was flavorless, and I wound up dumping the entire thing into the garbage. Ugh. Of course, David and Karen's soup was lovely and made me think that maybe (and that's a BIG maybe) I would try this again.

David and Karen blog here, but don't check out that link unless you want to be overloaded with tasty meals and amusing musings about food. Also, don't lick your screen. That's just gross. When I last checked, they had all their fingers, which is fairly useful considering D's academic pursuits involve the CS world and K's revolve around chemistry. Besides doing boring math-y, computer-y stuff, David has a fancy camera with which he takes AWESOME pictures. He is also working on his first project for nano. As for Karen, she is my quilting sensei, and her finished quilts make me want to be a better person, or, at the very least, a better quilter. She washes a lot of dishes. By hand. They both keep me fed with good food. (And the pie! Don't get me started on the pie!)