Try-It Bite: Pumpkin Soup

I needed one more recipe for Pumpkinfest 2011.  I wanted  new different recipe, so to my husbands dimay, I chose Pumpkin Soup.  I hope you like it!  Steve decided he would like a little texture to the soup, not blending it.  He also thought it needed some tabasco (everything always needs tabasco!).  I liked the texture, I thought it needed a little more salt and a little less thyme.  We both thought Italian sausage would be GREAT in this soup. 

Pumpkin Soup

4 main dish servings

*Martha Stewart*

Ingredients

6 c chicken stock

3 c pumpkin

1 med onion

3 cloves garlic

1 1/2 t salt

1/2 t thyme

1/2 c heavy cream

Directions:

1.  In a medium saucepn, defrost stock

2.  Add pumpkin, onion, garlic, salt, and thyme, bring to a boil

2.  Reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes.

3.  With immersion blender, blend soup until smooth.

*Note*  You can also do this in a blender in batches

4.  Add cream, simmer for an additional 10 minutes