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Always a great soup for a chilly evening.
This is a definite family favorite. It is made with Butternut squash/pumpkin, chicken broth, onions, flavored with lemongrass, shrimp paste, chilies, lime, coconut milk. I added a few kaffir lime leaves too.
I didn’t have fresh birds eye chilies, so I substituted red pepper flakes (sambal oelek is also a good substitute). Spiciness can be adjusted to kid-friendly levels.
When our children were very young, they were able to withstand spicier foods. After the age of about two, they all became a little timid when it came to spiciness. Over time (and with insistence), they are all now accustomed to and enjoy spicy foods from a variety of cultures: Thai, Indian, Mexican, Cajun...
Original recipe found here.
I was chatting to a friend yesterday... one that I had long-ago promised a recipe - for butternut thai soup. I went searching for it today - and realized just how long it had been since my last blog post - over a year!
I also remembered that I had inadvertently deleted the file that held all the images in my blog a while ago, thus destroying all image links. If I ever find some spare time, perhaps I will try to re-establish these links.
The problem with blogs is that they need to be kept up-to-date. To take even a short break, SO much seems to happen, that to just recap events seems insurmountable. A year's worth of news is too much to attempt... so perhaps I will just try to start afresh - and perhaps post some of those blog entries that have been drafts for such a long time... or perhaps it will be another year until my next blog entry :-)
