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<\/a>But the nice thing about a that is you never go hungry! There is fruit and juice and cereal galore! \u00a0I was across the isle from a new grocer and they were serving delicious food one of which was a to-die-for Butternut Squash Soup, complete with recipe.<\/p>\nAh, but it turns out Sex God was due to bring in food for 15 for his work lunch group so we decided to cook up the Squash soup.\u00a0 It was either that or our Mole sauce which I knew took a lot of time.\u00a0 We popped over to the market to get our 1 missing ingredient when I realized the recipe fed 4 and we needed to feed 20 (me & the kids for dinner that night).\u00a0 So we ended up filling 2 handcarts with celery & carrots & veggie stock & anything else I needed…like desert!<\/p>\n
Then Sex God and I began peeling and chopping and I quickly realized that this was NOT going to fit into one pot! \u00a0Hell, it took 6 bowls to HOLD all the prepped veggies!\u00a0 So I quickly got a second (and then a third!) pot and began to try and brown the veggies per the recipe instructions.\u00a0 That completely didn’t work!\u00a0 So we just loaded them up with stock and boiled them which was the second step.<\/p>\n
Lucky for me I’d snagged a roasted chicken from Vons & threw this meat at the kids for dinner.\u00a0 That and raw carrots and by the time we were finally cooking the veggies it was “Here’s desert!”<\/p>\n
Once everything was all cooked I realized the next challenge was the fact my blender wasn’t going to do this in one go!\u00a0 Add to that the fact the realization that each pot didn’t have the exact same ingredients so we needed to blend them all together and I’d not even added the spices yet! \u00a0 But we managed it by working together although I quickly had to modify the recipe!<\/p>\n
See I’d tasted it before and I knew how it should taste and what we had was too celery tasting.\u00a0 Now it’s possible this was due to not being able to brown it, so for next time I’m cooking a single batch & maybe using my large skillet first!\u00a0 In any case, I was able to finally get it to a nice squash, sweet curry taste that satisfied me.\u00a0 All of it!\u00a0 And I was amazed at how easy soup was to make.\u00a0 I’m looking forward to trying more creamy soups \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Sex God made a perfect assistant and took my huge black pot filled with soup to work along with the half loaf of multigrain bread I had left. \u00a0(Not a problem since I went shopping the next day.) \u00a0And I still had a quart to put in my freezer and a quart to put in my fridge.\u00a0 We got it all finished by 9pm! Luke & Evan were still awake and both wanted a taste so I took a spoonful up to them.\u00a0 That got a delicious thumbs up.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>This is the SECOND load of dishes they had to do!<\/p><\/div>\n
Haha…. Wait till they see the mess they’ll get to clean up!\u00a0 The upside to having\u00a0\u00a0 I just spent a day at the CalWIC conference.\u00a0 This is an educational conference for people who work for the government WIC (Womens, Infants, Children) agency.\u00a0 As a company that sells breastfeeding DVDs, we vendor at these type of conferences.\u00a0 … Continue reading slaves<\/del>\u00a0 kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"