tomato honeynut squash soup
+ herby pancetta oyster cracker confetti AND grilled cheese !!
weeeeeeeehooooooooo everyone - yesterday was october 1st so today it’s obviously time for a soup
and while lowkey it was just 80 degrees out the other day, I have decided to mentally move forward in a sweater and bag full of pumpkins in my farmers market tote. another thing in my tote - tomatoes. despite my best efforts of shaking summer off to allow myself to really immerse in the fall energy - tomatoes are still in BIG abundance at my farmers markets. like, I don’t remember years pasts having this many tomatoes available in early october but perhaps I was just uninterested in them by then.
something that feels illegal to say but……here it goes - yes, I’m a little sick of tomato tomato tomato everything, eat a raw tomato, eat more tomato, eat your final tomatoes before summer ends!! and I LOVE tomatoes. however, we had a good time and now we must say goodbye to say hello to new memories. that’s kind of how I feel about living in florida . I love warm weather, but I love change more. and as much as I shrivel up into a icicle in the midst of an east coast winter, it’s totally essential to me. and so the seasons go! I love a season! I live for a season!
so while I just ranted on about tomatoes being done - here I am with a tomato soup hybrid. but that’s not really the same thing after all. I mean, roasting tomatoes is totally fall behavior and transforms the flavors beyond the tomato as we know it. and then there’s the honeynut squash of course. ah, my favorite squash variety. rich, intense and oh so sweet. I’ve never been super fond of a butternut in general, but especially not butternut squash soup. it feels very baby foodish to me - and often gets tiring after a few bites. but there is potential to it! its warming, cozy, and has a grounding depth that tomato soup doesn’t. on the other hand, I have my own qualms with tomato soup - too acidic and sometimes feels like I’m eating diluted marinara sauce.
enter: honeynut tomato soup. the perfect marriage between the best of both world. it’s sweet, it’s creamy, it’s tomatoe-y, it’s warm, it’s absolutely perfect to pair with an apple grilled cheese! with smoked gouda! or an herby pancetta oyster cracker confetti! I’d like to see some more oyster cracker representation - a girl can only eat so much chowder.
absolutely perfect to make for this transitional period of seasons <3 recipe for the oyster cracker confetti, apple grilled cheese + soup below!
