Coconut Curry Pumpkin Soup

 

I have a million pumpkins since the pumpkin patch and DD insists that he doesn't want to carve them.  He wants to cook them. 

So we roasted and pureed the pumpkins together and I made my first (of possibly many) pumpkin dish:  coconut curry pumpkin soup.

Roasting at 375 degrees for a little under an hour & a half.

I gotta say, for me not being a big fan of pumpkin, this soup was super delicious!  I would make it again in a heart beat.  I considered it a clean-eating kind of dish with only 5 basic ingredients.  I basically only used 1 canned product, because were else am I going to find coconut milk?

So here are the details:

Coconut Curry Pumpkin Soup

• 6 cups fresh pumpkin puree
• 1 tablespoon curry powder
• 1 can coconut milk
• 1 cup vegetable stock
• salt & pepper to taste

In a medium-sized pot toast the curry on low heat, as soon as you smell the curry fragrance move on the the next step so you don't burn the delicate curry. Add the coconut milk and whisk on low heat until it's clump-less and a golden color. Add in the pumpkin puree and vegetable stock.   Simmer over low heat for 5-7 minutes, whisking every so often. Add salt & pepper to taste.  Enjoy!

Easy-Peasy and Oh so delish! - Shirley (Mama-Ruff)

For Love of Pumpkins

I underestimated this kid's love of pumpkins.  He practically attacked the speech therapy intern for the whole bag of pumpkin candies instead of the one candy he was being offered!  I experienced a classic mommy-fail moment and gave in to the tantrum and bartered with him.

If you stop crying, I will buy you your own bag.  Deal?

Deal....

I thought he'd grab anything in the candy aisle, or maybe go for the biggest bag,  but he was very specific.

"Halloween," he kept saying.

Until I found the bag of pumpkins.   He turned into a kid in a candy store...... literally.




His speech therapy intern has always given him lollipops and other candies, and yet he's never had a tantrum like this before for the WHOLE bag!  After a day of giving it some thought, it all started to come together: 

• How happy he is talking about pumpkins.  
• How he talked about an Angry Bird pumpkin  (how does a 3 year old remember pumpkins from the previous year?!).  
• How excited he was picking his pumpkins last year.  More excited than I saw him at Disneyworld!  I mean, I never heard him say "I want to go home" at the pumpkin patch.  
• How he nearly tackled his speech therapy intern for a bag of pumpkin candies.

 It's a good thing we're going to the pumpkin patch tomorrow!

-Shirley (Mama-Ruff)