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\ud83c\udf42 An autumn fridge clean-out soup<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This one came straight out of the back of my fridge on a fall Sunday. I had spent the afternoon outside raking leaves, and I walked back in with one idea: treat myself to a new soup. A real one. The kind that fills you up, not a thin broth you sip while waiting for dinner. I pulled out whatever was hanging around: two parsnips, celery, a small acorn squash, a pack of ground beef. A fridge clean-out soup in the strictest sense. My boys loved it, and that is about the best test I know.<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udf72 The pearl couscous cooks on its own, and goes in at the very end<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Pearl couscous, Israeli couscous: same grain, two names. Little rolled beads of semolina, nothing like the fine grains of Moroccan couscous. I love the stuff, and it shows up all over the site, from my maple pork medallions<\/a> to my Brazilian chicken<\/a>. Here it does not cook in the soup. It gets its own small saucepan, its own water, and it joins the pot at the very last minute, along with the corn. One step not to skip before adding the water: I toast it for two minutes in a drizzle of olive oil. That gives it a nutty flavour and keeps the beads separate instead of letting them clump together.<\/p>\n

\ud83e\udd55 Parsnip, acorn squash and a bowl with real chew<\/strong><\/h3>\n

What makes this bowl different is the vegetables. Not the carrot-and-potato duo you see everywhere: parsnip, sweet with a bit of pepper to it, and acorn squash diced so it softens without disappearing. Add the ground beef and the couscous on top and you get a properly chunky soup. You have to chew it. That is the point. And it freezes without complaining: I fill individual containers, pull one out in the morning, and lunch is handled. When reheating, a splash of beef broth brings it right back to where it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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