Butternut Squash Soup
Food traditions can take root faster than you’d think. Several years ago (probably seven or eight) I decided to make a soup for Thanksgiving that I’d made a few times and had liked each time. It’s surprisingly simple, has few ingredients, and can feed a crowd. Want proof about that last part? Each year my family celebrates Thanksgiving with my dad’s side of the family and some years this amounted to about 60 people (in recent years this number has fallen into the 20’s and 30’s). These gatherings would start in the morning and could last well past midnight, so this soup became part of the second wave of food that was eaten to supplement the leftovers. The nice thing about this recipe is that it can feed from two to 60 with about the same effort. Since that first Thanksgiving when I introduced this soup to my family, I’ve made it every year – including the year I had knee surgery over Thanksgiving break. [...]



