Pumpkin soup

[popsycal]

Any good recipes?
DS has a book he loves called pumpkin soup and I showed him a real live pumpkin in the supermarket today.
now i am not quite sure what to do with it!
Any ideas!

i made one up the other week and it actually tasted quite nice!
fry onion, celery, herbs of your choice, pepper garlic until onions soft and brown. Add veg stock...then just plonk pumkin in (chopped obviously. I added sweet potato and carrots too, and cumin. I think some people stir in some cream when almost ready to serve but i didnt bother. Let it all simmer away till pumkin soft....wizz it up or leave lumpy....tasty!

cor this one from delia looks nice too:
www.deliaonline.com/recipes/r_0000001361.asp

ggglimpopo makes lovely pumpkin soup, popsy (we had it at her house!) Have no idea what she puts in it though and I haven't seen her here today and msn is off so we are a bit incommunicado. I will ask her when I can

Have a look at the links on this page though.

Popsy you really can't go far wrong.

I make a simpler version than Spod (and I was also inspired by that book! ):

Fry a few onions up with whole garlic cloves (skin on)

Then pick out the garlic, and add the chopped up pumpkin. Boil up with water or stock until soft, then mash or put in a food processor.

Add an enormous knob of butter and you're done!

lovely!
might cook that tomorrow!

ds will LOVE having real pumpkin soup - has any one ever read the book?

We've got that book too! I've promised DS1 that we will make pumpkin soup for Halloween when we've done the lantern thingy (he's 2 and so obviously really understands what it's all about ). Howvever, there is no way he would actually eat any of the soup of course but I'm sure the rest of us will enjoy it!

deep in the woods there's an old white cabin with pumpkins inthe garden

there's a good smell of soup and tonight with luck.....

One in the Asda free mag I've got - let me know if you still want it & I'll copy it out for you

It's much easier to peel the pumpkin if you cook it a little first. Otherwise you spend hours trying to hack off the hard skin. The best options are either cutting it up into chunks and nuking it for about 7 minutes, steaming it or roasting first gives a lovely sweet taste.

I either go for the cumin/a little chilli option or try adding nutmeg. I serve it with either a dollup of plain yoghurt or some grated cheese.

Being a kiwi, I have a bit of a thing about pumpkin soup. Pumpkins are really cheap for much of the winter, I think we're all issued with the recipe at birth. On a side note, when the sluglet was 10 days old I had a visit from the midwives (traumatic birth, a week in SCUBU, older first time mother etc) They took one look at the pumpkin soup bubbling on the stove and decided I was coping just fine and never bothered me again