Butternut Squash Soup

Butternut Squash Soup

As winter is finally beginning to make its appearance, I now feel comfortable saying it is soup season.  Nothing warms you from the inside like a good bowl of soup.   I could continue to wax poetically about soup and give you details as to what makes this soup special, but as I have discovered, when you are looking for a recipe, you just want to get to the recipe.  So without further ado, here is my Butternut Squash Soup Recipe.

Butternut Squash Soup Recipe

This is a crock pot recipe!

Ingredients:

1 medium butternut squash pealed, seeded and cubed

4 medium sized parsnips, pealed and chopped

1 large white onion chopped

2 red apples, pealed, cored and chopped

1 cup vegetable broth

1 tablespoon curry powder

1 tablespoon chili powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon pepper

1 pint of half and half

Instructions:

1. Add everything except the half and half into the crock pot. 
2. Let the crock pot cook on high setting for at least six hours. Stir as needed.
3. All of the vegetables should be soft.  With a hand mixer, beat the softened vegetables into a purée. 
4. Stir in the pint of cream into the purée and let the mix heat through for another half hour 45 minutes in the crock pot then serve.

The soup is excellent with your choice of crunchies, dried cranberry’s and a dollop of sour cream.

The 3 R’s

Happy New Year!

It is the new year and time for resolutions, reflections and relevance. 

You might be thinking, why relevance. Or your could be like, hey that is some great alliteration, but seriously why relevance?  That is and excellent question.

Several years back I was chatting with my mother in law about my best friend that lived out of state and she asked me, “How do you stay relevant?”  I know it sounds like a mean question, but it wasn’t intended to be that way. 

I have been best friends with this person since grade school and we have spent most of our time living in separate states. We grew up, got married moved to two different states and adapted to adult life, needless to say it would have been really easy to become a footnote in each other’s life, however we prevailed. 

The answer I gave, was that it was all about want and communication.  It has been several years since I was asked that and I still believe it is all about want and communication.  If you don’t have the want to communicate and put forth the effort,  then you will never be relevant. I think that there is nothing worse than being a footnote in someone’s life when they are relevant to yours.   

My unsolicited New Years recommends is to reflect on your relationships and be relevant to those that are relevant to you.