{"id":613,"date":"2009-10-05T10:43:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T17:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=613"},"modified":"2009-10-05T10:44:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T17:44:17","slug":"really-great-squash-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"Really Great Squash Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So that Hubbard squash turned out to make a <em>fantastic<\/em> soup. I started with the recipe given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starchefs.com\/thanksgiving\/2001\/html\/recipe_14.shtml\">here<\/a>, roasting the squash as they suggest with garlic cloves, a drizzle of honey, and sprigs of fresh thyme:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \"><span><span><span><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3463\/3975883826_3b8d508486.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I scooped out the roasted squash flesh into a food processor, and processed it with a splash of cream until it made a nice even puree.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have a ham hock, and I was dubious about the amounts of cream and milk called for in the original recipe (a quart? Really?), so I made some variations. I started by chopping up four pieces of thick-cut bacon into half-inch pieces, and frying them over in the bottom of a stockpot over medium-high heat. When the bacon had darkened in color and released its grease, I added the diced onion and two ribs of diced celery, and sauteed them in the bacon grease (I think I also put in a splash of olive oil, because there wasn&#8217;t that much fat in the pan, and I think about half a teaspoon of salt) until the vegetables were soft. Then I peeled the four garlic cloves that had roasted with the squash, mashed them up, and sauteed them with the vegetables and bacon for just a minute, until fragrant. Then I added the squash pulp, stirred everything up, sauteed it all for a few minutes more, and then added the five cups of chicken stock and another sprig of fresh thyme (I didn&#8217;t have the savory the recipe called for).<\/p>\n<p>The recipe suggests letting everything simmer for 45 minutes, but I gave it like five because I was hungry, and it already tasted really good. Then I put in a cup of cream (hey, it&#8217;s better than a quart!), some more salt, a lot of fresh-ground pepper, and I put it into bowls and we ate it. It was easily the best squash soup I&#8217;ve ever had. Sam was enthusiastic about it too, although Robin wouldn&#8217;t even try it. He&#8217;s getting pickier, unfortunately. Maybe he didn&#8217;t like the color?<\/p>\n<p>We had leftovers, but they disappeared quickly too.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \"><span><span><span><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3111\/3983704583_388a02a6d7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So that Hubbard squash turned out to make a fantastic soup. I started with the recipe given here, roasting the squash as they suggest with garlic cloves, a drizzle of honey, and sprigs of fresh thyme: I scooped out the roasted squash flesh into a food processor, and processed it with a splash of cream [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}