This is butternut squash soup. I would normally cook everything together and just puree it, but Dave likes "chunks" in his soup, so I baked the squash and pureed it. I roasted an onion, potatoes and sweet potatoe in the oven, then decided roasted garlic would be good too. I roasted four cloves of garlic for about 10 minutes and took them out of the oven. One clove decided to explode, so I had garlic all over me. I'm not sure where the rest of it went!
I added the garlic, then added roasted potatoes, onion and sweet potato. I also added parsley, more garlic, salt, pepper and paprika...and half a jalapeno just for a little spice. I liked it a lot but it seems like it needed something else. I'd bought frozen rolls to go with it, but then discovered (when we were almost ready to eat) that it takes 1 1/2 hours to bake the rolls. I think those will be for tomorrow night.
I had bought a small pie pumpkin so today I decided to make pumpkin pie(s). I found a recipe here for how to make pumpkin pie from a real pumpkin instead of a can. I used this same recipe last year and it worked great. Once, I made pie from a butternut squash just to try it out and it was pretty good. I don't think anyone knew the difference!
I cooked a pumpkin a while ago and froze it so I could use it later (what I really wanted from it was the seeds...). I thawed it out today, planning to make pumpkin chocolate chip muffins but I left the muffin tin at the other house (6 miles away). I decided it was worth it to make the trip for the pan, got home to make the muffins and discovered the flour and other ingredients were still at the other house. At that point I gave up and decided to make them tomorrow night after work!
I love Fall! I even bought pumpkin beer to go with everything.
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Thanks for posting links to the recipes you use! I'm excited to try out some new recipes...hopefully (maybe) I can find a spare hour or two between now and December when my classes end! :) I hadn't thought of making pies from other kinds of squash--way to be brave! And I don't think I've ever made anything straight from the pumpkin--I'll have to try that some time. Your stuff sounds delicious--yay for fun fall stuff! :) (And good call on the pumpkin beer.)
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