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Prepping for the Holidays
My friends who are hosting Thanksgiving dinner asked me to bring soup for 20 guests, and masochistically I chose a recipe from the labor-intensive but worth it Sunday Suppers at Lucques. The delicious kabocha squash and fennel soup with candied pumpkin seeds is seasonally appropriate, bursting with orange, red and green. I’ve made this recipe before and it’s not until I’m deep in dishwater that I remember that it uses almost every pot and bowl in the house.
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I LOVE this soup!! But yes the kitchen is usually a disaster area after making it. I always struggle with cutting the kabocha squash. One year I took them to the butcher and begged them to cut for me. Another year my neighbor used his axe. However, it’s delicious, The guests should kiss your hands and feet. Enjoy and have a lovely day.
Blending the soup is probably the worst part. My kitchen cabinets were a mess. But everything in that cookbook is divine. Especially you have a kitchen staff to prep and clean up. Hope you have a yummy Thanksgiving.
Oh, that sounds wonderful! The ‘hounds at Chowhound often recommend this cookbook-maybe I need to consider this for my collection. Love that you are incorporating the seasonal. And to think that I’ve got a kabocha squash (my favorite) in the garage!
Happy Thanksgiving (or Thanksgivukkah,if you are celebrating that). Grateful for this blog, Wendy!
I love the Lucques cookbook, but each recipe is really a workout. You have too be up for it. And for that reason, I turn to it only a couple of times a year.
Have a lovely Thanksgiving!
You too, Dee.