Apple Butternut Squash Soup

Ingredients:

3 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil

3 tbsp of unsalted butter

1 large yellow onion

1 medium butternut squash
2 apples
1 tsp of cinnamon

1 tsp cayenne

1 cup of water
¼ cup of pine nuts for garnish

Preparation:

Toast Pine Nuts, set aside.

In a large pot, on low heat, add olive oil, onions, nutmeg, cayenne and cinnamon. Stir for 3 minutes, and then add butter. Sauté until unions are translucent. Meanwhile, prepare squash by peeling the outside (leaving no green) and removing the seeds. Cut the squash into 3 inch pieces. Do the same with the same with the apples.

When the onions are translucent, season with salt and pepper, and the squash and apples. Stir until squash and apples are fully covered in spices, add water, and bring to a boil. When boiling, cover and simmer for 25 minutes, or until the squash and apples begin to soften. Remove from heat, and puree in a food processor or with a hand blender.

Pour the pureed mixture back into the pot, heat through, and add the apple cider. Top with toasted pine nuts.

Serves 4.

organic apples, kimberton whole foods.

organic onion, turning roots farm.

organic butternut squash, kimberton whole foods.

braised onions with cinnamon, nutmeg and cayenne.

squash and apples being added.

toasted organic pine nuts, trader joes.

hand blender.

adding the cider for desired thickness.

Grandnan's Chicken Soup

Ingredients:

1 hen
1 head of celery, chopped in ½ inch pieces, leaves included
1 bunch of carrots
3 medium onions, chopped in quarters
1 shallot, chopped in thin slices
4 cloves of garlic
1 bay leaf
-chopped flat leaf parsley to add at the very end
-small shaped pasta/rice if desired.

Preparation:

Take hen (or chicken, which ever you have access to) out of the package; remove giblets and place in large pot. Fill up with water, leaving 6 inches from the top. Boil for 1 hour, covered. In the mean time, chop up celery, carrots, onions, shallot, and peel garlic cloves. After 1 hour, add it all in, along with the bay leaf. Boil, covered, for 1 additional hour. Carefully, take the hen out of the soup, and put it on a plate, pulling the meat off the bones, discarding the fat and cartilage. Make small shaped pasta and/or rice on the side to add in upon serving.

Serves 10-15.

organic whole chicken, kimberton whole foods.

organic celery, kimberton whole foods.

organic carrots, turning roots farm.

organic onion, turning roots farm.

organic flat leaf parsley, kimberton whole foods.

organic garlic, turning roots farm.

organic shallot, kimberton whole foods.

adding in the vegetables.

half way point.

organic pasta, trader joes.

removing the meat from the bones.