Easy Roasted Butternut Squash Soup

Byjfletcher November 3, 2016March 22, 2024

Easy meals like this roasted butternut squash soup are my jam today. It’s the day after Halloween and the candy hangover is for real. I mean for real. Because when you have a 2 year old and take said 2 year old trick or treating, obviously the 2 year old can’t eat all the candy.

It’s just a bad idea.

Though arguably, it was a bad idea to take her trick or treating in the first place if today was my punishment for it. Clearly, she wore herself out trick or treating and running from house to house.

You know what though? I don’t take it back. Trick or treating with her was so fun. More fun than we could have had when Nate and I were kids. I mean not that Halloween wasn’t a blast then too, but it’s so different. There’s nothing like watching your kid have a great time. Especially when your kid looks stinkin adorable dressed up in a princess outfit complete with sparkly crown and fake fur coat.

Oh yes. That happened. And it was the stuff my dreams of having a little girl were made of. Unfortunately, cue November 1. My kid didn’t understand why after days of trick or treating (4 total), she wasn’t wearing princess clothes. In fact, now that she’s a very vocal 2 year old, Goose made her opinions on her plain clothes very known. I’m pretty sure the neighbors down the road know my kid was not happy about wearing pants today. And really, I mean, I don’t blame her. Pants kind of suck.

But the tears and tantrum over pants were only one part of it. Goose was just having nothing to do with today. No “punkin” patch. No trick or treating. Just a lame old walk to see the horses. And it wasn’t up to her high standards. So she cried. And demanded to be held. And cried more. So I held her. All day. I understood why moms everywhere are tired and joke about coffee and wine. Totally get it. But even despite the post apocalyptic Halloween fallout, I still managed to make dinner. Most nights, I’d wave a red flag and just wait until both of us were home. But this was so easy. I literally had to quarter 3 onions. That’s it. It helps to plan for the worst and buy the precut squash. Makes it so much easier because after I quartered the onions, I just dumped the squash out onto a covered cookie sheet. I tossed the onions and squash with olive oil and spices, and put it into the oven, where I forgot about it for the next 45 minutes. Then I took it out, let it cool, ran it through a blender and hello, dinner done with Mommy’s sanity somewhat in tact.

Somewhat. Not only is this dinner easy, it’s delicious and healthy. It’s vegetarian or vegan depending on what stock you use and gluten free. We had to balance out the 30 pounds of candy we ate this weekend. Plus it’s so yummy. I hate feeling like I can’t eat good food just because making good food is difficult. This dinner puts that to rest. With virtually no active prep, you get a delicious, zippy soup flavored with ginger and garlic. Minimal sweat. Minimal effort. Maximum taste.

Which is exactly what I need today. That and another Snickers bar and a glass of wine. Looking for other butternut squash recipes? Try these:

Did you make this? Let me know!