Legend of Fall Series II -- Let us warm you up!

 Whit Bean  Butternut Squash Soup

It looks like this year, the winter can't wait until fall finishes its glory and just sneaks in, so when you are wandering along the Charles' River, enjoying the full color of mid-autumn, you can only obtain the warmth from the vision. Although I am amazed by the people that are still in shirts or shorts, I just put on my big coat and hide my face in the scarf. But when I see those little flowers are still blooming in the chilly wind, I can’t help questioning myself, “Should I be more tough?” I really don’t know…

It is often the appearance of squash, pumpkins that reminds me Halloween is coming! Actually in the early September, stores already put up boards with ‘Limited Time, Pumpkin….”, I like seeing those pumpkins flavor coffee, cake, pie…and they often come with cinnamon, nutmeg…it makes me feel like relaxing around the fireplace in the holiday, and they are orange, the color you like, spontaneously my heat will smile.

So let those lovely orange sweetie warm us up! It is a soup.
Ingredient: butternut squash(1), white bean(1 can), red onion(1 medium or smaller), butter
Maple syrup(1/8 cup), nugmet, sage(4-6 leaves), chicken broth (3cups or so)
After boil until butternut squash gets cooked, process in a blender.
I garnished it using fried sage leaves.

I guess I will be more savory if come with butter sage croutons, I might try it when I have guests.
But it is already ‘WOW’ed me, the subtle sweet brought by maple syrup, the creamy texture brought by the white beans, sage and nugmet are perfect machted her. It is really some kind of soup that can make you lip the plate.
I did some research about butternut squash soup, there are many versions, besides this subtle sweet version , there is also a curry flavor which often can be find in grocery, also something like squash+apple, squash+pear+, squarsh+apple+carrot , all sounds interesting.
Since it is going to be my regular soup for this fall , I think I can definitely try them all.
Also, I would like to try different kinds of squash in person, to see the differences of the flavors, textures, and make my own squash notes.