[Sca-cooks] Using fresh pumpkin instead of canned in a recipe?

[Jessica Tiffin]

At 02:39 PM 10/28/05, Irmgart wrote:
>Spoon tease!!!
>But tell me more about the curry soup? that sounds *just right* for the
>Halloween dinner we're having Monday!

Um, not deliberately spoon teasing, promise - I just don't tend to cook 
things like soup from a recipe. Make normal soup - onions, butternut 
pieces, chicken stock, but add a tsp or so of curry powder to onions while 
browning.  Or, if you're not a curry-powder-using life form, a bit of 
chopped garlic and ginger, ground cumin, coriander, whatever.  You want a 
reasonably subtle spiciness or it overpowers the butternut flavour.  I 
dunno, experiment :>.

JdH

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