Pumpkin Zuup!

Another easy way to consume pumpkin other than to bake/grill them (with a little butter/olive oil, honey and salt) in the oven is to make some lovely warm soup.

I used the recipe from Jude's blog. After studying the ingredients required, the affair promises to be a fairly simple and straightforward one (well except if you are a nob-cook like me, he he):
- pumpkin puree
- cream
- water (or stock)
- sugar
- salt and pepper (to taste)

Only thing I must say is to hold back the sugar while cooking the soup until almost done, have a taste then add a sprinkling accordingly to your taste. Also you may wish to consider using chicken or vegetable stock for a deeper flavour. But I thought the water worked just fine (didn't want to over power the pumpkin flavour).

Drizzle a little cream just before serving and swirl it around for some 'interesting' patterns.

I like the heart-shape ones :) *roll-eyes, I know*

I suppose there are more creative ways of dressing up soup, but I'll leave that for another day.

Soup was good but I got a little heavy handed with the sugar (Opps) and unfortunately the soup ended on the sweet side which was fine with me but DH and MP were not used to it. I could have added more water but then I didn't want to dilute it too much. Next time (yes, I'll make this again) I might experiment by adding some lemongrass to the pot and maybe coconut milk instead of cream!! Talk about fusion huh? Too much you think? Lolz