{"id":29,"date":"2011-10-05T21:56:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T21:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vernonlingley.com\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2011-10-05T22:03:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T22:03:28","slug":"29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernonlingley.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/29\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Soup: Now with flavor!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Painfully delicious with the candied curried pecans and the cinnamon croutons.\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-XRzutMuurJM\/Toy4EHTGvFI\/AAAAAAAAAtY\/Boh_koqEe_Y\/2011-10-05%25252013.03.01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So the pumpkin soup turned out amazing! The taste and body were great, and the suggestions from friends that both added a lot to the finished product.\u00a0It was the perfect thing on this <del>rainy<\/del> sunny day. WTF October.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pumpkin Soup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ingredients<\/span><br \/>\n1 29oz can of pumpkin (or a 4-5 pound pumpkin that you have gutted, scraped, and roasted you crazy person you)<br \/>\n2 tbsp butter<br \/>\n2 medium red onions, diced<br \/>\n6 C chicken stock<br \/>\n1 tsp ground cinnamon<br \/>\n1\/2 tsp ground nutmeg<br \/>\n1 tsp cayenne<br \/>\n1 C heavy cream<br \/>\n2 tbsp maple syrup<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Procedure<\/span><br \/>\n1. Make the croutons now. Its just easier this way.<br \/>\n2. Melt butter in pot. You could use the one that the girlfriend&#8217;s father got you, but you don&#8217;t have to.<br \/>\n3. Add onions and cook until properly sweated.<br \/>\n4. Add stock, pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cayenne. Stir. Stir some more.<br \/>\n5. Simmer for about 15. Now is a good time to make the pecans. Make a double batch actually, in case you eat some.<br \/>\n6. Remove Dutch oven from heat. Puree soup with immersion blender or in regular blender if you are a crazy person.<br \/>\n7. Stir in cream and maple syrup, and taste for salt and pepper.<br \/>\n8. Take pictures and preen for the internet. Oh, and enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Candied Curried Pecans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ingredients<\/span><br \/>\n1 C pecans<br \/>\n2-3 tbsp curry powder<br \/>\n1\/2 C simpe syrup<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Procedures<\/span><br \/>\n1. Cut up your pecans as small as you like them<br \/>\n2. heat up a non-stick pan over medium heat, or else you are never going to be able to clean this<br \/>\n3. Add the pecans and simple syrup.<br \/>\n4. When the syrup starts to bubble, add the curry powder and mix it up.<br \/>\n5. Wait.<br \/>\n6. wait for it&#8230;<br \/>\n7. OK, now when the sypup starts to look thick and starts to\u00a0solidify\u00a0on your spoon, kill the heat and stir<br \/>\n8. Now get back to your soup!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cinnamon Croutons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ingredients<\/span><br \/>\n4 slices of bread<br \/>\nLots of cinnamon<br \/>\n3 tbsp oil<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Procedure<\/span><br \/>\n1. Toast your bread to about medium toastiness<br \/>\n2. Heat up your oil in a large pan<br \/>\n3. Cut up your toast into whatever sizes you what for croutons.<br \/>\n4. Fry the pieces up a bit in the oil for about 2-3 minutes<br \/>\n5. When most of the oil is out of the pan, move all of the pieces together and coat in cinnamon<br \/>\n6. Heat for another minute or two than move them off the heat to rest of a bit before food.<\/p>\n<p>NOW EAT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the pumpkin soup turned out amazing! The taste and body were great, and the suggestions from friends that both added a lot to the finished product.\u00a0It was the perfect thing on this rainy sunny day. WTF October. Pumpkin Soup Ingredients 1 29oz can of pumpkin (or a 4-5 pound pumpkin that you have gutted, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vernonlingley.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/29\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,12,21],"tags":[25,24,23,22],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking-food","category-food","category-recipies","category-soup","tag-curry","tag-pecans","tag-pumpkin","tag-soup-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernonlingley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernonlingley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernonlingley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernonlingley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernonlingley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vernonlingley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/vernonlingley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernonlingley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernonlingley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernonlingley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}