Creamy Milk-free Squash Soup

Had some leftover butternut squash, so hit the Google at a boil and found this:

As usual, I started hunting through my cupboards at 5 in the hopes I would dream up dinner by 6. Not quite enough squash that was already chopped, half a sweet potato, and no apple is what I found. Soooooo, here’s what my family licked out of their bowls:

2 lbs butternut squash chopped
1/2 sweet potato chopped
1/2 C apple juice
2 C chicken broth
S&P

Bring the above to boil in a medium pot, then simmer until veggies are tender and mashable. Set aside.

1/2 onion chopped
1 t ground sage
1 t salt
1/2 t pepper
1 T margarine

In a large skillet, sauté onions, sage, s&p in the margarine until they are tender and browned.

Add softened squash, sweet potato, and their cooking liquid to the skillet.

1/4 C original soy milk

Add soy milk to the skillet, stir and let simmer for a few minutes.
Blend in batches until smooth.

Salt and pepper to taste. The end. Yummy for 6 medium-sized appetites!

Regrow your scraps

Brilliant post from 1 Million Women

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Dug out an old Junior Cookbook by Better Homes and Gardens tonight and let the boy choose what he would like to make for dinner. With only half-assed complaint, he whipped up these yummy “meat” pies.

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I live at quite a distance from my family, my friends, my alma mater, my roots. So, when nights like New Years Eve arrive, and my girlfriends from engineering gather together, I tend to “track the party progress like Norad tracks Santa,” in the words of my husband.

This year was no exception.