Autumn To-Do List
Buy boots. Wear new boots at every waking moment.
Bust out the scarves and go for it. Two at a time? Fine by me!
Make Dad’s Sweet Potato Pie. I know… I’ve been talking about this for ages. I need to shut my trap and get bakin’ already.
Don’t get Swine Flu, that would be seriously lame.
Is it time for flannel sheets? Well.. is the Pope Catholic? Heck yes!
Eat Roasted Pumpkin Soup by the truckload. Do it. Done.
I make a lot of soup. I don’t tell you about half of the soup I make because if you knew, you might make me change the name of this blog to Joy the Soup Maker.
That being said… when I make soups, I usually don’t follow a recipe. Here’s a secret: you can throw just about anything into soup and it’ll be delicious.
Here’s my recipe for pumpkin soup. It’s easy, creamy, and super healthy. Store it in jars in the freezer and put a frozen jar in the fridge in the morning for the evening’s dinner. This recipe is divine with or without the heavy cream. You could also use water instead of vegetable stock, but I love the flavor that a good vegetable stock adds to vegetable soups.
Roasted Pumpkin and Butternut Squash Soup
serves 6 to 8
1 medium pumpkin (perhaps a sugar pumpkin) and 1 medium butternut squash
1 cup leeks
2 small cloves garlic
1/4 cup olive oil
salt and pepper
5-6 cups vegetable broth
1/4-1/2 cup cream
2 teaspoons brown sugar
a few pinches of freshly grated nutmeg
salt and pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Cut pumpkin and butternut squash into 2-inch chunks, removing the inner seeds and fibrous bits. I roasted my pumpkin and squash with the peel on and removed the cooked flesh from the peel once baked. If you think it’s easier to peel the pumpkin and squash before baking, then go right ahead.
Slice the white flesh up until the green stalks of several leeks. Toss the pumpkin, squash, whole garlic cloves and leeks on a baking tray with olive oil, salt and pepper. Bake for 25-35 minutes or until a fork inserted in the flesh of the pumpkin and squash meets no resistance.
Remove from the oven and allow them to rest until cool enough to handle.
When cooled, use a spoon to scoop the cooked flesh away from the squash peel and place in a large saucepan. Add the roasted garlic and leeks to the pan too. Add 3 cups of warm vegetable broth and using a hand blender, blend and breakdown the squash flesh with the broth. If you don’t have a hand blender, blending the chunky soup in a regular blender in batches should work too. Add 2 to 3 more cups of broth and blend until you’ve reached the desired consistency. Add sugar and nutmeg.
Cook soup over medium heat for 30 minutes. Add cream and salt and pepper to taste. Stir. Serve warm.
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OH yum! It is so chilly here in Pittsburgh and this will be PERFECT. Even just the roasted veggies are great, I bet.
And I CAN’T WAIT for the sweet potato pie recipe..I hope it makes it’s debut soon!
There isn’t a lot that I find to be redeeming qualities for the winter months of the northwest…however clothes and food (especially soups) make the short list. You should definitely pot more soups. We will still visit you. :)
Yummm! I just made my own pumpkin puree this past weekend and it was super easy. This soup looks great! I bet the flavors of the pumpkin and squash compliment each other perfectly :)
Oh this looks so good!! Soup and fall go so well together, and this might be the first one of the season I make!
This sounds like my dream soup! Yum!
Mmmm so perfect for the cold, rainy day outside right now.
Ooh! This soup would go perfect with my fall boots!
This looks so yummy! I have always wanted to make pumpkin soup. We will be trying this recipe for sure.
The DeL Sisters
So I just made a really similar soup this weekend for company. Instead of sugar I added 1/4 cup of fresh apple cider…so good. I also sauteed an apple and some sage and threw that in. Oh, and then on top I crumbled a bit of bacon and fried a sage leaf for garnish. That stuff made it especially special and fall-ey. Yay for fall!
It is pumpkin soup season even down south. I’ll take a slice of that sweet potatoe pie too.
Just ate butternut squash soup for lunch but the addition of pumpkin sounds divine. Looking forward to the sweet potato pie recipe as well :)
I’m on such a soup kick… this sounds delicious! I wonder… would it be good with curry? I had the most amazing curried pumpkin and squash soup once.
Looks YUMMY! Can’t wait to try it.
Interesting, our to-do lists are amazingly similar!
Lovely soup, and the china you used looks so pretty.
Joy, soup is my favorite food. Seriously. I almost love soup more than I love baking. Please, please, please continue to share your soups with us! By the way, here in Ohio scarves and boots and such came out 2 weeks ago- Oh the joys of early fall!
You know what I love about you, Joy? The fact that you are strangely able to read my mind. How else would you have known that I’ve been searching for a fabulous soup recipe to use up all of the butternut squash and pumpkins that our family gave us during our road trip to Massachusetts this weekend? Seriously – you’re awesome. Better than awesome. Insanely awesome. ;)
Wow! How fall-ey it is!! I love soup, too…but my husband does not!Damn it!
Every time I prepare a soup I had three or four jars in the freezer, and right now I have three different type of soup! The last one was a celeriac soup, the next one? this one!
Thanks for the idea and bring on some new soup!
cheers Martina
Why why why won’t my husband eat butternut soup? I may have to make it anyway and eat the whole pot over a period of days. I’m not a fan of squash alone, but it’s so tasty in a soup.
It’s so much fun to read the blog of someone who connects fall with food as much as I do!
Mmmmmm!! My teeth are salivating! haha :) This looks delicious for a chilly autumn day.
This looks totally delicious! We usually make a butternut squash soup, but I’ve never added pumpkin. Great idea! I too am a soup fiend. In fact I’m stuggling against posting 3 soup recipes in 2 weeks…can’t help myself!
Definitely want to try th is! I made butternut squash soup last winter and wasn’t able to get it very creamy. It still had a few chunks, which I wasn’t thrilled about. Is that because I used a regular blender instead of a hand blender? Any tips to get it extra creamy?
I’m SO looking forward to that sweet potato pie recipe!
Joy,
The first thing on your to do list is totally the first thing on my to do list as soon as the weather gets chilly! A random stranger once said to me in a shoe store “Girl, you can never own too many shoes or handbags!”
ps: I make a giant pot of Butternut Squash and Pear Soup that I freeze every fall for quick easy dinners. But I love yours with the combo of pumpkin and butternut squash. Will be trying this soon!
ooo this looks delicious!
My mom makes a mean pumpkin soup but I’m going to get her to add the squash great combo!!
Quick question: where did you find the beautiful dishes in the soup picture? I have issues with china patterns in that I collect too many eek! But those are so lovely I just wondered where you found them. thanks!
I just love the food!
*sigh* pumpkins are over in Australia now..I mean I can ger them..but they’re just not as good now. Thinking about doing a cold cucumber & avocado soup with spicy crab though!
Pumpkin and squash are my two favorite things ever and this soup sounds amazing! Can’t wait for the sweet potato pie!
I just made pumpkin soup last night! And, I “garnished” it with chopped bacon and bits of blue cheese — the whole sweet and salty thing — it was soooooo good. Pumpkin season rocks. Looking forward to the sweet potato pie!
PLEASE give us some more soup recipes. I love soups and can’t wait to make this one tomorrow. Thanks!
it’s been a rainy windy & cold day today~~ a bowl of warm pumpkin soup will definitely brighten up my gloomy thursday afternoon!
pretty chinaware :)
Ooh that sounds delicious!! Will try and go to the market on saturday to buy some pumpkin and buttternut squash!!! Would make a nice lunch at work too.
By the way, what did you do with the seeds? Reading your blog, I’m sure you’re not the type of person to throw them away! They’re so good roasted in the oven with a little olive oil and a sprinkle of salt!!! Is it naughty to buy squash just for the seeds?!!
I could live on soup alone… well soup and salad… keep the soup recipes coming :)
This looks and sounds like the perfect fall/winter dish! Litterally can’t wait to try it – hopefully I can make that happen this weekend. My fiancee and I are soup people … serious soup people. Thanks for the yummy recipe!
Looks so yummy, comforting and just oozes autumn.
I’ve already made soup 3 times in the past two weeks…so I know where you’re coming from.
Thanks for another great recipe Joy!
I am on a “make anything and everything I can with pumpkin” kick right now. Pumpkin Cookies, cupcakes, muffins, scones, sticky buns and soup is on the list too! Looks super yummy!
Mmmm, I just love a good pumpkin soup!
I believe that especially the roasting of the pumpkin gives a great taste!
Your recipe is quite similar to mine, but I use coconut milk instead of cream and I add two heaped teaspoons of currypowder to the soup; yummy!
This recipe couldn’t have come at a better time! With Canadian Thanksgiving just ending, and Halloween coming up…I have so many pumpkins! I needed something to do with all of them and this is exactly what I am going to do! Not to mention how wholesome this will be on these cold days to come…
xoxo Ange
This week I’ve made pumpkin soup twice. My squash-family hating AND soup-hating husband loved it! I really couldn’t believe it! My recipe is almost identical to yours except for the absence of cream and onions in place of leeks. Thanks for sharing. Enjoy the warm soupy goodness.
How I love pumpkin!
love the photos!?
I made this soup this morning and let it hang out in the crockpt until lunch time….super yummy, so simple and my 4 yr old couldn’t get enought of it :)
Recipe sounds fab! Soup is my fav. part of the fall!
Mmm..soup!.
Nothing is more comforting than a steaming hot bowl of soup on a cold windy day.
Joy, could you please post a few more soup recipes?
I JUST got squash and pumpkin in my farm share – I’ll definitely be trying this this weekend, thanks!
I made this last night, but added some crispy bacon and toasted, spiced pumpkin seeds. It’s even better the next day! Absolutely delicious :-)
I just made this soup yesterday. It was amazing! Everyone who tried it loved every bite. My husband’s new 2nd favorite, only because he can’t get enough white cheddar potato with pancetta. He gave you a HUGE thumbs up and said you’re an excellent soup maker! YUM! I recommend this recipe 100% It even got me 2 marriage proposals by my 2 friends. I can’t marry them for my cooking and borrowing your recipes, as I am already married, and they are both gay, but it was funny. I promised them pumpkin cheesecake instead.
Joy! Sweet potatoes are taking over my kitchen counter. For real. I think they are hooking up and making sweet potato babies. Please post your pie recipe soon!
The soup is GREAT!! I added some curry powder because I love curry and butternut squash together. Thanks for the awesome recipes.
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