Butternut Squash Soup @ Tuesday Mornings in My Office – Webster, MO

I took Tuesday mornings off through Thanksgiving to give myself a little buffer and a mild taste of freedom. I have all sorts of interesting things to write about these days… There is this towel mystery going on in my house (a real page turner) and I continue on my journey of transforming little random pieces of resentment that pop up into compassion. That actually is really an interesting bit.

We are working on a new allowance plan to roll out to the kids that will focus less on them being helpful and more on them being human. Ya know, with screen time goals and bonuses for how they spend their leisure time.

But, for now, I want to share with you a little recipe I put together yesterday. I didn’t take any pictures so you’ll have to use your imagination.

I really love how the soup turned out and it is pretty great for your immune system per my expert nutritional analysis. I am especially thinking about this because a couple of my readers have little babies and this is totally something I would imagine they would absolutely love cool or warm or even in a little frozen treat if they are teething.

Here you go:

Ingredients: Butternut Squash, Carrots, Apples, Celery, Onion, Yellow Curry Spice, Garlic, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Ginger or Ginger Tea, Chicken Boullion, Honey, Coconut Milk, Simply Nutritious Mega Antioxidant Juice or Lime Juice and Peaches, Pumpkin Seeds.

1. Half a butternut squash and put it in the oven to roast. I had it at 375 maybe for 40 minutes. I also used a well seasonsed cast iron skillet. Do the whole bit where you scoop the seeds and prick with a fork over the skin that should be facing up when the halves are laid down.
2. Peel and roughly cut up 4 or 5 carrots, roughly cut up 4 apples (honeycrips, medium -ish), cut up 2 or 3 celery stalks, cut up a medium or large yellow onion. Put all that in one giant bowl and toss with some oil, 1 T yellow curry spice, 1 T minced garlic, 1 tsp Cinnamon, 1/4 tsp nutmeg. I happened to be fortunate enough to have left over oil from when my oldest daughter made donut holes over the weekend so I used that to toss it but anything works. Roast the fruits and veggies until they are smelling good and a little brown.
3. In a large pot, put 4 cups of water, 2 ginger tea bags (or some minced ginger – I was out so I used ginger tea and just taped the tea bags to the outside so they would not slip) and a little chicken boullion (optional) and 1 T of honey and bring that to a boil then turn off the heat. This should smell like something you want to drink / soothing / comforting. Take the tea bags out.
4. When the squash is done, pull that out and spoon the squash out and add to your ginger chicken broth. Use an immersion blender to get that going first.
5. Add 1 cup of Simply Nutritious Mega Antioxidant juice. It’s apples, carrots, peach and lime – I suppose in theory you could always add peaches to your fruit roast and some lime juice.
6. Put all your roasted fruits and veggies in and use the immersion blender to get it smooth.
7. Add yellow curry, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg , more juice to taste. I drank about two glasses of this from a wine glass while I was cooking. This soup is truly a labor of love and this antioxidant juice is a little treat while you are giving.
8. Add a can of coconut milk and blend
9. Garnish with pumpkin seeds

David and I are doing a little bit of reclaiming our health this fall. There are so many different ways we are considering changing things up in our life. I have been finding a lot of joy in my morning routine and eager to spend some energy on some writing and yoga stuff I have on my mind.

I am also starting to think through our ofrenda and how I want to celebrate Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) coming up. We have lost some really lovely people in our lives, whose energy and vibrations are still very much a force in our day to day. I am thinking of putting a little emphasis on the celebration of them this year.

Plus we have Maddox’s 8th birthday hot on Halloween’s heels. The kids start phasing back into in person learning this fall which I am hopeful is not only healthy and safe but also gives them a little taste of normalcy and community.

Okay – time for the weekly BYOD (Buy your own drink / donut) Dunkin run. If only there were a way to make me feel better about the single use plastics…. maybe containers for water for painting the ofrenda…..

:)