Squash and Apple Soup

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This squash and apple soup is the third recipe I've made from the Everyday Food cookbook. It was made with butternut squash, green apples, and onion.  I had to improvise because I couldn't find the exact ingredients that it asked for.  The recipe asked for squash purée or homemade squash purée using acorn squash.  I only found butternut squash at Aldi. And I really didn't want to shop anywhere else so I got butternut squash.  Another ingredient i had difficulty finding was unsweetened apple cider so I got reqular fresh-pressed apple cider. It was good for drinking!

The actual cooking experience was also quite an adventure. I started by roasting the butternut squash, it smelled beautiful.  Then I puréed it but I didn't come up with enough purée for the recipe so I had to improvise again. I added leftover canned pumpkin that I had in the freezer. Also, since I had sweet apple cider and the recipe asked for unsweetened in the recipe I added just half the cider it requested in the recipe and replaced the other half with water.

As I cooked the soup and it simmered I started to worry. The combination of ingredients didn't sound too good to me. Squash, apples, sweet apple cider and onions??

Hmmm...

Sure enough when I test-tasted it I was filled with more worry. Like, what have I done? I destroyed this beautiful butternut squash. Haha!

I was so convinced the soup was missing bacon. But I never have any bacon. And also, the bits on onion and apples was not so pleasant so I puréed the soup. But still, I couldn't figure out how to actually enjoy it.  I tried adding sour cream, half and half, cheese. Help!

Finally I added dried sage to it and hallelujah that was it! Sage was the missing ingredient in this soup! Sage! I love you sage!

Anyway, I don't know if it was the recipe or if my improvising was the reason this soup turned out the way it did. But thankfully the sage saved it. Once I added sage and puréed it, it tasted so much better!

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