Holy smokes, it’s September. And two weeks until I move. And I’m kind of freaking out about it 😯 I will start packing eventually, but before I do, I have some good news and some bad news.
The bad news is that Hotmail decided to randomly delete all of the messages in my inbox…
… and it doesn’t look like they’re coming back anytime soon. So, if you sent me an e-mail within the last little while and I didn’t respond, chances are it’s because my inbox ate it. I’m doing my best to try and recall what all was in there, but that’s proving easier said then done.
The good news is that today’s the day where I announce the giveaway winner! 😀
Congrats Brittany! E-mail me ([email protected]) with your contact info and I’ll be sending out your goodie package ASAP. I honestly wish that everyone could have won, but I had a lot of fun with the giveaway, so there’ll be more chances to win in the future. Just keep an eye out.
For now, though, I have something else to share with you – a recipe for one of my favorite soups.
I know that it’s still technically summer for a few more weeks, but it’s already starting to feel rather Fallish around here, and I’ve really been craving the comfort of a warm bowl of soup as the days become cooler and darker. The combination of warming spices and the seasonal flavors of pumpkin and apple make this soup one of my Fall-time favorites. I hope you enjoy it as well 😀
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. curried apple pumpkin soup .
Ingredients (serves 1, ~ 2 cups)
- 1 cup vegetable broth
- ½ cup canned pumpkin puree
- 1 tsp. coconut oil
- ½ apple (any variety), thinly sliced
- ¼ of a white onion, sliced
- 1 tsp. curry powder
- ½ tsp. cinnamon
- ½ tsp. cumin
- dash of ginger, cloves, nutmeg
Instructions
1. Begin by heating a small skillet over medium heat. Add coconut oil. When it melts and becomes hot, toss in the onions and cook until they begin to brown; ~ 3 minutes.
2. Stir in the apple slices. Cook until they begin to soften; ~3 minutes.
3. Add your spices, stirring well to ensure everything is evenly coated.
4. Reduce heat to low, cover the skillet, and continue cooking for ~ 5 minutes.
5. In the meantime, combine broth and pumpkin in a small saucepan set over medium heat.
6. When the broth begins to bubble, add the apple/onion mixture and bring the whole thing to a boil.
7. Once it begins to boil, cover the saucepan, reduce the heat to medium-low, and allow it to simmer for another 15-20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
8. After 20 minutes, remove the saucepan from the stove and allow it to cool slightly. Pour the contents into a blender and blend until smooth. An immersion blender would also work.
9. Empty into a bowl and enjoy!
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I absolutely adore this soup, especially when it’s paired with eggs and avocados…
… or almond butter and honey…
Sometimes I even like to toss in some extra veggies, beans, and a random grain (rice, quinoa, bulgur) and use it as a base for a thick and hearty stew.
A part of me will miss summer, especially when all of the melons and berries disappear, but I can’t deny that Fall tastes mighty fine too.
Happy September, loves! 😀
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What’s your favorite way to eat pumpkin? Breads? Muffins? Cookies? Lattes? Straight up from the can? Any recipes that I need to try out?
What was the best part of your summer? Are you sad to see it go?
Curried apple pumpkin soups sounds so nice! Hotmail has been being a biyatch to me recently too…sending all my messages later, not using the right ‘server’, ughhhhh. Hmm…I’m still doing summer since I’m on vacation in Scandinavia but as of next week I suppose I’ll be sad to see all my traveling go until the next time around. Oh and the summer sun an excuse to wear little summer dresses :/
I’ve never actually had pumpkin except in poorly made pumpkin pie. It’s almost impossible to get ahold of here.
I’m very very sad to see summer go, however I have a newfound love for hot oatmeal breakfasts and that makes me happy 🙂
Delicious looking soup- love fall veggies especially pumpkin and butternut squash! Enough great combo is pumpkin and cumin soup!
Mmm I love pumpkin loaf! Or pumplkin lattes!
This soup looks heavenly, it would be great with kabocha as a base as well, 😉
I move into my dorm on saturday, im ready for fall.
Mmm it’s great with any squash base really. I’ve tried it with butternut and sweet potato, and both have been fantastic.
I’ll take pumpkin any way! I like things pumpkin spiced. My little jar of pumpkin pie spice? favorite ever. I use it in smoothies, oats, coffee, so good! I’m excited for the seasons to change mainly for this reason. Love fall flavors!
Thank you for this!!! I made this soup tonight and it was fabulous! I added coconut milk (from a can) to tonight’s bowl and it was super creamy, tomorrow I am going to do a more chunky version with the leftovers, I made a big batch! Pumpkin bread is so good during the fall, warm and spread with a little almond butter or coconut butter takes it over the top. And pumpkin curry is another orange fave of mine 🙂 But this soup is now one of my favorite pumpkin dishes now too, I am making it more my madre next time I see her for sure.
Awwr! Thanks for letting me know that you made it, and I’m glad you enjoyed it 😀
Yum! I was only just looking at this soup recipe on your blog (or your old one, I can’t remember) on Wednesday, and here it is again begging me to make it! Delicious 🙂
It’s one of my favorites so I had to give it a double mention 😀
YOu just made me so excited for fall!!
i love all things pumpkin ! in fact i made pumpking chocolate chip muffies this afternoon 🙂 yummy. thanks so much for this recipe i will definitely try it out! and i’m pretty stoked with all things pumpkin, but my favorite would probably be the pumpkin pudding i make — i will post the recipe sometime soon !
I love pumpkin sooooup! Tried and true fall soup 🙂
I lovee pumpkin cheesecake with a gingersnap crust!! I might just make it this Thanksgiving and share the recipe. 🙂 Pumpkin pie though, not so much. I love pumpkin with greek yogurt too! And fresh roasted pumpkin seeds. This soup looks great though, definitely something I might try!
YUMYUM love the soup recipe–looks delish and im sorry about your hotmail account (fyi yahoo rocks).
I love creamy soups like that. I am SO ready for autumn and all its wonderful flavours, especially pumpkin and squash!
OMG that soup speaks to my soul. Definitely a winner!! It’s going to feel like summer in my area until about halfway through November, hah, so I am totally going to go full swing ahead into fall now because I’m definitely not cool with waiting that long!
Congrats to the winner! Omg love the pumpkin soup, what a great fall recipe. I’ve never made pumpkin soup before
Aw, I love pumpkin! And that soup sounds awesome! I like it in baked goods and lattes :). I am sad to see summer go…it felt like it went way too fast. But, I do love fall- I’m just not a huge fan of winter, so it fall could just stay that way I would be much happier haha
No, no, no!! Kicking and screaming, I hate the end of summer… I will miss the abundance of fresh produce and the WARM WEATHER!! AHHHHH!!
Um, okay. I think my favorite way to eat (canned) pumpkin is in oat bran or oatmeal. But I really prefer fresh pumpkin / squash. Roasted.
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I’ll miss the warm weather too. But don’t complain, because you’ve never experienced the winters that we get up here 😛
That’s good to know about the email thing I was a little heart broken when you didn’t reply to my message! I was just wondering if you live in Calgary cause if so we should be bffs and have oatmeal parties and stuff. Just sayin
My favourite way to eat pumpkin is either in oats, or on a pizza with spinach and pine nuts.
Ive actually been tossing up which one to have to dinner tonight.
Seriously why do email accounts do these things? its so frustrating isnt it!! Hope you didnt lose anything too important.
As a kid I hated pumpkin. Maybe because I couldn’t make a difference between a melon and a pumpkin (I thought that melon was raw pumpkin 😀 ) and I have always hated melons… Now I am in love with it.
Before I came to Japan there was only one way I would eat it if we don’t count baby purees – in a dessert called tikvenik. The name comes from the word for pumpkin in my language which is tikva. It is basically phyllo pastry with pumpkin filling that I make from pumpkin, brown sugar, chopped walnuts, raisins soaked in rum (or whatever alcohol I have on hand. Whisky works fine, too.) and, of course, loads of cinnamon. I am sure there are pictures somewhere on my blog but I am too lazy to look for them 😛 .
In Japan kabocha is very popular so I found two new favorites – kabocha tempura and kabocha salad. I didn’t like the ingredients list of the salad so I made it my own way and now I can’t have enough of it. I buy frozen kabocha (lazy girl here), thaw it, chop it and mix it with vanilla custard yogurt. Simple, yet delish. It is a little ugly and gets even uglier after I put cinnamon in it but who cares when it tastes so good 🙂 .
Our summer isn’t going anywhere yet. A typhoon is coming our way but this doesn’t make it less hot. I think September will give us the kind of weather I usually call summer unlike August better known as hell on earth.
I’ve been seeing posts all over the blog world about pumpkin and fall.
I am intrigued with yours though! That soup looks AMAZING.
I love soup and apple and pumpkin so I need to try this 😀
Thank you!
I love avocado + eggs — such a good sandwich!
Sorry about your emails — that stinks!
Pumpkin — I love pumpkin pie. Other than that I love pumpkin bread and muffins. Delicious!
That looks pretty incredible. Lots of foods online look nice, but this sounds like something I can actually see myself cooking. Sounds great!
I’m going to miss summer sunshine, warm mornings, and weekend boating, but I’m pretty excited for fall.
That soup seriously sounds fantastic. I love fall-ish soups like that. The color is gorgeous, too!
I love pumpkin cookies and muffins I want to try pumpkin pancakes, bread and pumpkin spice lattes this year 🙂 I’d sad to see summer leave, but I’m ready for fall!
I was just looking at your old blog and saw this and thought “this looks so good!”
That’s actually a little creepy but…
Send some pumpkin over here! It’s still a dry pumpkin spell over heere. :C
It’s one of my favorite soups, so I had to do another post on it 😀
And I’d definitely send you some pumpkin! The funny thing is that we have tonnes pretty much all year round, and then run out in October when everyone starts buying it for pies lol
Oh gosh, do I have to choose?! Pumpkin bread is amazing, so I would have to go with that.
I am sad Summer is over- esp b/c I’m a teacher and had to go back to school today. I already feel sad that I can’t spend as much time reading and commenting on blogs! Gotta get back into a groove again I guess!
Perfect Fall soup! I cannot wait to try this! It reminds me of a sqaush apple soup I make sometimes. I have been loving pumpkin in oats, and straight up! Haha 🙂
Cheers! And by cheers I mean that I would DRINK that soup! Looks delish.
I think my favorite way of eating pumpkin is mixed with yogurt over warm apples so this is right up my alley — especially since dairy is an occasional thing with me and most often is a no.
SO sad to see Summer go, I hate the cold. BUT don’t feel too bad for me I live in South Florida.
muffins! The best part of summer is soaking in the sun after a cold, cold winter. But after 2 months straight of 100+ temps, I’m ready for the Fall temps!
Holla at to girl for pumpkin!! My favorite ways to nosh on that glorious fruit are smoothies, protein bars, with Greek yogurt, and just straight outta the jar with nut butter YUM!!!
I’m kinda sad to see summer leave, but definitely not sad to say bye bye to heat…even though we’ll prolly have it til November thanks to dumb Texas haha
This, mornin’ actually, since it was rather chilly, I backed me up some pumpkin puree straight from the can with some pumpkin pie spice added in of course.
It was just all too lovely.
Aaah, I’ve made a pumpkin soup quite similar to this a many-a-time! Something about pumpkin (well most winter squash/vegetables) leaves you feeling so warm inside. <3
I'm so so so excited to see fall 'rounding the corner, and i just cant say it enough!
That looks incredible!! Combines two of my favorite foods ever and its perfect for fall!!!! Gaaaah…I just love soup!! Especially pureed!
Mmm, I just love soups like this!
Iv never had canned pumpkin- it really doesn’t exist where I live, hurumph. I guess I could replace it with pureed bnut squash? I imagine the apple will give a lovely sweetness.
Iv made like a vegan mac’n cheese with a pureed bnut squash, nutritional yeast, soymilk, saucy thing- twas good!
Nothing too thrilling about my Summer, so I say bring on Autumn!
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Butternut would work too! I’ve done it with bnut and sweet potato before, and both turned out fantastic. And I’ve come across a few vegan cheeze recipes that use bnut squash… I’ve always been curious to try them out, and I might just have to if you recommend them 😀
Uh oh, your inbox ate my email then for sure 🙁
I loved all the competitions and travel time I had this summer; but more of that to come this season 🙂
That soup sounds amazing! I will be making that asap.
I love everything pumpkin flavored, but I sorta skeeve pumpkin straight from the can. I think it has to do with the fact that I got the stomach bug the day after I ate it haha. But still, pumpkin coffee..bread..muffins..count me in!
I will definitley miss the sunshine in the evening. I hate when it gets dark early. Even worse waking up when it’s still dark. blah. But my favorite part of the summer was going to York beach, Maine with my family. Nothing like a relaxing vacation to calm the mind.
I can’t say that I’ll miss it still being bright out when I was trying to fall asleep at 10, but I’ll miss the longer days for sure… especially when February hits!
I think pumpkin pie is my fave way to eat the stuff :D. But in all honesty I have never had pumpkin in much else!
Summer is not quite gone here– we are in a hot stretch, and it was almost 90 degrees here today (and super humid), and tomorrow we are in for a 96* scorcher! I am still grasping onto the berries while I can, but surprisingly, my melon jag has gone away (I would eat a half at once up until the end of last week 😯 ) Is this a sign that fall is on the way?
Sorry to hear about your inbox–reminds me of the time my flash drive got corrupted and I lost all my schoolwork for the semester. It was not a happy day.
Anyway, I the only pumpkin I’ve eaten in a long time was in a muffin… I love squash though, so I guess it’s not that different? I’ll have to give the soup a try when it gets a little cooler.
The best part of my summer was graduating (though that was in May, so technically still spring), and moving into my first apartment 🙂
Moving! Eeee! That’s so exciting 😀 2 weeks for me and I can hardly wait!
It still feels like summer in my parts, but according to the 14 day forecast the temperature is supposed to dip soon. You can bet that when that happens I will definitely be craving soup and this recipe sounds divine! I’ve never thought of having apple in soup before, that’s such a creative idea! I love pumpkin in microwave protein bakes, and lately I’ve even been loving them in smoothies! I’ll be sad to see the sun go, the past few years have all been wet falls, but if this is a sunny fall I’ll be a happy camper 🙂
Congrats to the winner ; )
Wow this soup looks yummy! I love butternutsquash soup! Its one I eat a lot of in the fall !
I love pumpkin anything, except pumpkin pie : p so weird I don’t like it! lol
Best part of the summer was my WEDDING day! Im not sad to see summer go, I mean I just live for the days, so every day, no matter what season, I enjoy : )
love you! xoxo
I thought I was the only one who didn’t like pumpkin pie! I’ve only had it a few times and each time it was like… eugh. I think I’ll be sticking to apple 🙂