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Butternut Squash Soup
Ingredients
▢2 tablespoons olive oil
▢1 medium yellow onion chopped
▢6 garlic cloves minced
▢½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
▢⅛ to ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
▢1 (3-pound) butternut squash peeled, seeded, and cubed (1.4kg)
▢½ teaspoon salt
▢½ teaspoon ground black pepper
▢3 to 4 cups vegetable broth (720-960ml)
Instructions
In a large pot, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Add the onion and cook stirring occasionally until they start to brown, about 15 minutes. Reduce the heat to medium.
Stir in the garlic cloves, and cook for 2 minutes. Stir in the (Continued on page 4)
cinnamon and nutmeg, and cook stirring constantly for 1 minute or until very fragrant and nutty smelling. Add the squash, salt, and pepper. Stir in 3 cups vegetable broth, scraping the bottom of the pot with the spoon to release any browned bits.
3. Bring to a simmer and cook, stirring occasionally, until the squash is very tender, 30 to 40 minutes. Remove from the heat.
4. Carefully transfer the soup to a blender with the center part of the top removed, or use an immersion blender, and puree the soup until silky smooth. Return to the pot if necessary. Add additional broth for a thinner consistency. Taste and adjust seasoning as desired. Serve immediately or let cool and refrigerate in an airtight container for up to 1 week. The soup can also be frozen for up to 6 months.
Notes
If you want to save time, you can purchase peeled and diced butternut squash.
This recipe makes for a very delicious soup that highlights the sweetness of the seasonal squash. If you want to jazz it up or adjust it to your taste, mix in chopped fresh herbs like rosemary or sage, add madras curry powder and coconut milk or stir in some chili powder and top with cornbread crumbles.
The topping ideas for this butternut squash soup are endless! Try topping the soup with fresh herbs, nuts, seeds, bacon crumbles, cheese, and more! I love serving this with a swirl of cream or dollop of sour cream and a sprinkling of fresh herbs.
You can roast the butternut squash cubes before cooking them for a deeper butternut squash flavor.
If you are blending the soup in a blender, make sure you do not overfill the blender and that there’s a way to vent to steam. Doing so will prevent pressure from building up in the blender.
Make sure you dice the butternut squash to a similar size. Doing so will ensure they cook evenly and you don’t bite into a large chunk of squash that’s raw in the middle.
Source: https://preppykitchen.com/butternut-squash-soup-2/
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Why You Shouldn't Clean Up the Fall Garden
Nature doesn't cut down spent flowers or rake up leaves each autumn, and if we're going to garden for wildlife and less maintenance -- for bees and butterflies and aching backs -- then we need to take nature's lead in the way we garden. When you walk in a prairie or forest each October there won't be animals putting detritus into compost piles or plastic bags to be hauled away, and I challenge you to get a picture of that occurrence. Removing spent material from the garden is removing fertilizer, rich topsoil, habitat, and food -or simply put, it's gardening against nature.
Fertilizer
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Topsoil
Leaves and other plant bits are broken down naturally over time by soil life, incorporated into the soil by bugs and micro organisms and bacteria and worms and ants and moles. This adds fertility to the soil and increases water penetration and storage -- it's the cycle of life. When you remove leaves and stems from the garden you are literally removing healthy soil.
Food
Leaving flower heads full of seed can be critical for winter songbirds whose resources dwindle as the season goes along. Seeds tend to be high in fat content and lots of other good nutrients critical to a bird's ability to produce both energy and heat in the colder months. Of course, once spring comes, flower stems and grass clumps used for food and shelter from snowstorms become prime nesting material.
Habitat
Plenty of creatures overwinter in garden litter, from queen bumblebees to mourning cloak butterflies to black swallowtail larvae to all manor of frogs, spiders, beetles, and bugs. Inside plant stems may be larvae of native bees, since roughly 25% of native bee species use cavities found in wood or stone as nesting sites. This is one reason (Continued on page 21)
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