I create my own recipes.
And then I never make the recipe again, because I forget what was in it, or even that the dish existed.
Tonight I made this butternut squash soup and I'm writing it down so I can make it again.
Butternut Squash Soup
ingredients (you can make up your own depending on what's around, that's what I do):
green onions, olive oil, beef broth, a yellow pepper and a red pepper (the vegetable, not the spice), potatoes, kosher salt, whole milk, bacon
Chop up the green onions thrown into a big pot with some olive oil
throw in the chopped up butternut squash and some beef broth, bring that to a boil and let it simmer until the squash gets soft.
Mush that all up together, in the blender or use a mixer. Have your 4-year-old son help you, it's good for kids to learn how to be creative in the kitchen. Put it back to simmer. Add some whole milk to make it creamy.
In the meantime, you have chopped up some vegetables. Your 4-year-old son helped chop the yellow peppers and surprised you at what a great job he did!
Take the chopped up yellow pepper and a red chopped up pepper and some chopped up onions and some peeled chopped up potato and put those into a baking dish with olive oil and kosher salt and roast those veggies for about 45 minutes.
Take the leftover chicken from that you created for the salad with chicken the other day and chop that up and ask your 4-year-old son if you should put it in with the simmering broth or with the roasting veggies. Listen to his advice and put it in with the soup.
Take the veggies and add them to the simmering broth.
That's it.
Oh! I almost forgot a very yummy part!
Put some bacon onto a plate and cook it in the microwave for a long time, until it's crispy. Throw the bacon grease out, crumble or cut up the bacon and add it to the top of the soup once it's in the bowls. Mmmmm mmm!
So easy, good for you, and simply delicious!