Butternut Squash Soup with Truffle Oil

There isn’t a squash I love more than the beautiful butternut squash. Like most winter squashes, it shares similar flavors with it’s brethren the pumpkin, yet it seems to marry even better than most with the earthy flavors of mushrooms. Butternut has that perfect silky texture after being cooked. Its flesh is a gorgeous shade of orange, and it has one of the sexiest shapes of the squashes. It’s like the Raquel Welch of squashes.

Even with our latest heat wave hitting us this fall, we are still craving fall dishes. Despite the hot daytime temperatures, the air still has that dry crispness of fall and the nights cool down nicely. Maybe it is the air or maybe it is just that we haven’t had some of our ole favorites in a while, but every time we see the piles of butternut at the stores and markets our hands have nearly subconsciously started to reach out for them.

It is pretty hard to mess up a butternut squash. We’ve been making tacos out of them. Making variations of the Butternut Squash Crumble we have in our cookbook, Bountiful. And of course making the classic butternut squash soup.

(...)
Read the rest of Butternut Squash Soup with Truffle Oil (154 words)


© White on Rice Couple for White on Rice Couple, 2014. | Permalink | 12 comments | Add to del.icio.us
Post tags: Butternut Squash, Gluten Free, Healthy, Side Dish, Soups, Squash, Top Vegetable Recipes, Vegetarian


  • Love
  • Save
    4 loves 1 save
    Add a blog to Bloglovin’
    Enter the full blog address (e.g. https://www.fashionsquad.com)
    We're working on your request. This will take just a minute...