Butternut Squash, anyone?

Really, we have lots! 

Wednesday found Jenn and Kendall and I at the auction.

Smicksburg Produce Auction.

Jenn wanted some tomatoes for salsa

peppers for a couple of things

and apples for an apple butter recipe that you make in the slow cooker.

She doesn't like to bid.

I LOVE to bid.

Auction fever, I guess.

JWS kept saying he wanted to make some soup.

One of us mentioned my friend Carol's Butternut Squash soup.

Let's back up.

This auction draws grocery stores

and produce markets

from all over.

So the lots are BIG.

But,

if you are canning...

I swear you can't grow it in your garden any cheaper.

So,

that would explain this rather large bag of butternut squash?

One would think so.

Or the fact that I love to bid...

or the fact that this was the ONLY lot of butternut squash.

So here's the concept of wholesale/retail as I see it.

Because most of these people are buying to resell their items,

they want the bottom end price.

Because I am buying from the retail end,

I can pay a little more.

But on to the sqaush.

There are lots of them in my pantry.

We are going to be turning orange before we get all of them eaten.

So here's my first recipe.

I'll be the first to admit,

this is NOT the blog that you come to for recipes.

or

Household Hints

or

Cleaning Tips

or

well anything much domestic.

But

Kendall fell asleep on the way home from the auction

and I thought that was good enough reason to take the afternoon off!

So while Kendall slept.

I made this soup from ideas from several recipes.

You will need:

Two butternut squash

(Really, only two)

1 large onion

2 large cans of chicken broth

1 stick of butter

2 large sweet potatoes.

(I found them in the pantry and thought, why not?)

nutmeg, fresh ground is way better

garlic

salt

pepper

Melt the stick of butter in a large pan,

add the onions and cook until transparent.

Add the two cans of chicken broth.

Peel and cut the squash and sweet potatoes into 1" squares and

add to the pot.

(This is the worst part of the whole thing.  That squash is really hard to cut up)

Cook, cook, cook.

Add the nutmeg, garlic, salt and pepper.

Cook some more.

About 1/2 hour to 45 minutes.

Puree in the pot if you happen to have one of those handy pot puree things.

I just happened to find one in the pantry. 

Not sure where it might have come from...

( I think that JWS might have stole it from his Mom's)

If not, I suppose you are going to have to scoop it out and put it in your food processor

or mixer or

well you can figure that out!

Anyway, it was really good! 

Tyler, Logan, Gracelyn and I went on a walk last night,

Through the fairgrounds where I gathered all these flowers,

and maybe a few weeds.

But it was house cleaning day and I just thought that some fresh things would make it even better

Some projects I am working on...

Not going to be done for the Pumpkin Fest...

But, hopefully the open house.