Soup of the Week!

We're still waiting for cooler weather here in central Texas. I'm still longing for crisp cool days, and wishing I could see beautiful golden leaves falling to the ground, like I used to when we lived on the east coast. But the reality is it's still in the 90's here!

That doesn't stop me from wanting soup! Don't ask me why but over the past few days I've been craving some good old fashioned, heart warming, home made soup! And after I got this craving I just so happened to stumble on this magazine while I was in the book store the other day. . . .


I had one particular soup in mind this week that I just had to have. It's butternut squash soup. Now the other day (before I saw the magazine) I picked up a carton of soup to try at home. I've never bought butternut squash soup, nor have I ever made it - but I figured this way if I did make it I would be able to tell if it tasted anything like the store bought kind, or with some luck it would taste much much better. So I had the store bought soup the other day, right after my dentist appointment when it turned out I didn't just have one small cavity but two, and on both sides of my mouth I might add (you can imagine how that felt with both sides numb), the soup was just what I needed for lunch. And it was yummy.

Yesterday I made my own butternut squash soup, and get this, even though I bought a magazine with over 100 soups in it, I didn't use one of the recipes, ha ha! Isn't that just typical. I had already seen a Paula Deen recipe on foodnetwork.com that I wanted to try (you know how I love Paula Deen). Here it is:


It was pretty simple to make, just add butternut squash, carrots, onion,s and chicken stock to a pan, cook until tender, about 40 minutes then blend in a food processor and before serving add half a cup of cream (I used half and half in an attempt at keeping this a little healthier). It turned our yummy, but I felt like something was missing? I say this because my neighbor made some of this soup last year and he let me try it, and it had some other taste to it, I want to say like cinnamon or nutmeg maybe? I'm not sure, but I will have to ask him for his recipe and compare.

Anyway, great thing is, I asked Kristen to try the soup when she got home from school and asked for an honest opinion (didn't tell her what was in it til she tried it) and I was amazed to see both her thumbs go up :-) YAY! A soup packed with veggies and it gets two thumbs up from my 7 year old - ya gotta love that. Jason on the other hand is not a soup kinda guy. Don't know why, but I think he thinks soup is just not a meal? He sniffed at the pan, said it smelled good but has yet to try it.

So, that's my 'soup of the week'. I would like to try at least one new soup each week over the coming weeks (or it may be every other week!). But I will share with you when I do and give you my opinion (and Kristen's) on whether it's worth trying out. If it's really really good, I'll share the full recipe with you if you want to try it yourself ;-)