Can you clock my age if I say that I actually purchased, with real cash money, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul? Those books were everywhere and I was oddly delighted to find one aimed just at me: a teen. It seems utterly ridiculous some mumblemumbletwentysomething years later, to buy the trendy thing because it said teen, particularly when I didn’t even live in a community that read any Chicken Soup books. But I was an avid reader and oh so susceptible to impulse buying. Let’s just say it wasn’t for me, and truly unremarkable outside of the actual purchasing of the book. It might be that I just need SOUP to heal my soul. A beautiful and tasty variety of soups, all cooked with love in my favorite spot in my house: my kitchen. I love making soup! I started with broth bases soups in my early twenties, making a pretty killer tortilla soup from a bunch of Trader Joes ingredients. But I wanted to make cream soups using an immersion blender. The first year after I married my husband I subtly hinted at how great an immersion blender would be for Christmas. I didn’t get it. So I asked for one for the next three years. I didn’t get it. Then we had a baby and there were a million other things to ask for a few years. In 2021, as life with the baby settled and grew into comfortable chaos I knew I was ready. So I said, “I am buying an immersion blender for myself for Christmas so I can make delicious soups,” and would you believe that I didn’t have to because 6 years later my husband finally got the hint? And he loved it! I used that blender to make myriad soups that warmed us up both body and soul through one of the toughest periods of our life. It gave me a life in so many ways to take on this cooking challenge and warm up dark times. But as winter turned to spring, I knew soup wasn’t as practical. So I waited, and I planned, for fall to come again. Here we are! And while our souls don’t need quite the same healing they did before, we are still the parents of a toddler. This fall and winter seasons I want to make 30 different soups to challenge myself and find new recipes. With fall here, winds whipping, and pumpkin patches and corn mazes thriving, I started off with Butternut Squash Bisque. Was it amazing? Yes! Not too sweet, full of fall flavor, and so warm and hearty! Here is the recipe: Butternut Squash BisqueIngredients
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