{"id":2719,"date":"2011-10-25T12:24:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/?p=2719"},"modified":"2011-10-25T13:06:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T18:06:40","slug":"33-curried-pumpkin-and-butternut-squash-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/33-curried-pumpkin-and-butternut-squash-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"#33 Curried Pumpkin and Butternut Squash Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2720\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pumkin-butternut1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2720\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2720\" title=\"pumkin-butternut1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pumkin-butternut1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pumkin-butternut1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pumkin-butternut1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pumkin-butternut1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After roasting pumpkin halves and scooping out the pulp, the empty shells were quite hard...and just the right size to fit a soup bowl into.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I love it when October and Halloween roll around each year, not because of the spooky stuff or candy treats, though I can&#8217;t deny enjoying a bit of both&#8230;but because of all the pumpkins suddenly waiting to be turned into soup.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made soup out of our used Jack-o-lantern on occasion, and despite their being bred for size and sculptability, I&#8217;m happy to say that the generic store bought pumpkin works just fine in soup. This year I picked up a smallish four pound Sugar Pumpkin at Trader Joes, thinking it would be bursting with flavor. Unfortunately, as I was cutting my way through it, I realized that the best pumpkin in the world still needs to be ripened to get its flavor out, and this one wasn&#8217;t quite there yet. Roasted alongside the butternut squash and a few poblano peppers it came out all right, but not as right as it might have been. Lesson learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love it when October and Halloween roll around each year, not because of the spooky stuff or candy treats, though I can&#8217;t deny enjoying a bit of both&#8230;but because of all the pumpkins suddenly waiting to be turned into soup. I&#8217;ve made soup out of our used Jack-o-lantern on occasion, and despite their being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2865,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions\/2865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}