Pumpkin time!

Autumn is finally here and it is time for pumpkins. We brought a couple yesterday, one butternut squash and the other is more like a pumpkin shape-wise (with green skin though; MM said it was Japanese pumpkin).

I didn't know what to do with the huge amount/about 2kg of pumpkin. Not a big fan of any pumpkin dessert--pumpkin pie and bread tend to be over-sweetened. MM suggested we could make a soup and that was what I did for lunch today (shown in the picture).

I started with making vegetable stock composed of celery, garlic, onion, carrots, potato, olive oil, salt and black pepper, which requires simmering for about 1 hour. Then I fished out the solid bits from the stock and blender them with pre-cooked pumpkin (microwave, 6 minutes). That was pretty much it, and with a bit of salt and pepper, there was my very satisfactory vegetable soup!

P.S. I froze the vegetable stock and leftover soup for future busy days.