Pumpkin soup

[catsittingstill]

So I have this can of cooked pumpkin mash that has been sitting around the house.  And I was thinking about making pumpkin pie, but, well, hadn't yet.  And I thought "I wonder if you can make pumpkin soup?" and that thought went away before I mustered the gumption to do anything about it.  And a couple of days later I thought "I wonder if coconut milk would be nice in pumpkin soup?"  And that thought went away before I mustered the gumption... and then this afternoon I thunk the thought again and looked it up on the internet and lo and behold people do put coconut milk and pumpkin together in various ways.

So I took two cups of pumpkin mash and a can of coconut milk and stirred the liquid into the mush.  Then I took about a teaspoon each of ginger nutmeg, cardamom and cinnamon and stirred them into two tablespoons of sugar and scattered that over the surface and stirred it in.  It's heating now.  We'll see.

Comments

[mbumby.livejournal.com]

Sounds yummy.

I make the pumpkin soup out of Joy. (The only other ingredient I remember from it is ham.)

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

I have now had a bowl and a half. It is yummy. And very filling. It turns out the pumpkin isn't particularly high in calories but the coconut milk adds a lot. I think there's about 700 calories in the whole pot of soup, meaning I better stop now if I want to have anything else for dinner.

But its soooo good.

I think I have a copy of Joy; I should check that out.

[corbaegirl.livejournal.com]

I like adding some hot spices to the pumpkin/coconut milk mix.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

like pepper or curry?

[corbaegirl.livejournal.com]

Curry, most yummy!

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

I should try this.

[andpuff.livejournal.com]

I used regular milk but that's pretty close to what I did with pumpkin mush after Halloween.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

I bet regular milk would taste just fine too. The coconut milk taste is quite subtle anyway, especially once the spices are added.

I was thinking cream would be really good--but also very rich and high in calories :-7

[infobits.livejournal.com]

There is a lower fat version of cocu\onut milk available ... but that'd probably take out a lot of the flavor and alter the texture.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I think I would go with one of the low(er) fat versions of regular milk first.

Funny--I hadn't thought of cocoanut milk having fat--but cocoanuts certainly do!

Some recipes on the web call for chicken stock, also (of course, that can certainly have fat in it.)

I think over all 1% milk might be the way to go for a lower calorie version. Maybe I'll try a smaller version tomorrow with that and curry as corbaegirl suggests above.

[bedlamhouse]

ladyat has made some marvelous pumpkin soup with just a little heat in it using pumpkin, cream and 2% milk in varying proportions depending on how healthy we are feeling like, and orzo. It is very good, especially warmed up for lunch on a cold day.

I'll push her to get the recipe on her web site.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Thanks for letting me know.

I've never tried orzo, but the recipe sounds interesting.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize she had a separate website until you mentioned this so I had a look.

I liked the Jokes/Tips section particularly :-)

[antinomic.livejournal.com]

Have you tried google cooking? Enter the ingredients you have and the the word recipe. You'll get a gaggle of possibilities.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

No, I've never tried that. In fact, this was the first time I ever tried looking up recipes online. And I considered them as sort of jumping-off-points. :-)

But I'll have to keep it in mind for the future.