Cooking Soothes The Soul

Or at least mine it does.

It's been a rough month or so for me.

I've been "cooking" but not 

"creating."

Today I created and I feel a bit better for it.

It's a gloomy day here, and for once it's not

just my mood.

So gloomy screams soup to me.

Mom and Big bequeathed a butternut squash 

to me a couple of weeks back.

I scoured around my vegetable bin and came

up with:

said squash,

a sweet potato,

a couple of carrots,

a red onion

and 4 garlic cloves.

And did this to them. 

I left the garlic cloves in their paper, 

it's supposed to protect them while roasting 

but still have them get all mellow and buttery.

It did, and they did.

I drizzled olive oil over the whole mess, 

threw on some salt and pepper, 

and then roasted them at 425 degrees for 

30 minutes.

My house smelled amazing!

Once they were all roasted up put them in batches

 in my handy-dandy Vitamixer with some

chicken stock and made this:

It tasted as good as my house smelled.

Here's a little idea I had, know how you 

deglaze pans when browning meat?

Well, I deglazed the roasting sheet with

 some of that chicken stock. 

I didn't want to lose one bit of the stuff that

smelled that good!

I may toast up some chopped pecans in butter

to put on top......

or I may just grab a spoon and start eating right out of the pot!