You open the oven after an hour and it smells like roasting, sweetness and herbs. The squash has browned at the edges, the onion has collapsed, the garlic is golden. All of it goes into the blender with stock and comes back out velvety, deep orange, without a drop of cream in it. Six servings, a grilled baguette, plenty of butter and whatever cheese you like. At our place this is the whole supper, and the boys ask for it again every time. Best part? It freezes for three months. Since the pan is already out, make a double batch!<\/p>\n
Most recipes have you set the squash face down on the pan. That makes sense when the face is bare: it touches the hot metal and browns by contact. Except here the cut side is not bare. There is oil, salt, pepper and a teaspoon of herbes de Provence on it. Flip it over and you trap those herbs between the flesh and a 425 \u00b0F pan for an hour: they scorch, and the bitterness spreads through the whole soup once it hits the blender. So the squash roasts cut side up, the herbs toast gently in the air, and that is exactly what you want to taste.<\/p>\n
Squash simmered in a pot tops out at 100 \u00b0C in water. No browning is possible, which is where that flat, vegetal taste of ordinary squash soup comes from. In a 425 \u00b0F oven, the surface moisture evaporates, the squash sugars concentrate and brown, and you pick up nutty, toasted notes you cannot get any other way. Add nutmeg and ginger for the classic, herbes de Provence for the not-classic, and two tablespoons of maple syrup to round it all off. That is where it gets good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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