We have been having  unseasonably warm weather, that is until this week when temperatures have dipped to single digits.  Whenever I start to feel a slight winter chill it’s time to dig out my heavy blankets and soup recipes.  It has only been in the last year that I have been able to get MarocBaba and the boys to enjoy soup. You must understand how difficult that was for me, a soup lover.  For years I went without, choosing to sacrifice my soup-love.  Mostly that was because I would never eat a full pot myself but also I didn’t want the work of cooking two different things.
 

This year has however been a successful year on the soup front.  First there was the Avgolemono and Veal  Meatball Soup (a HUGE hit), then the Chicken Couscous Soup and most recently Vegetable and Ricotta Gnocchi Soup.
When Paula Wolferts’ Food of Morocco came out I poured over all of the recipes.  Moroccans don’t eat a lot of soup save for the traditional harira. But what I did find in this book was a Spiced Butternut Squash Soup.  Creamed soups aren’t usually my thing, I like broth,  but we had gotten butternut squash in some of our last CSA boxes.  This recipe is from the Rif Mountains in northern Morocco (most likely why I hadn’t had it before) where the winters are cold as they are here in the Midwest.  You can find Paula’s original recipe in her book or on the Food and Wine website.  I made mine slightly differently.
 

I went a little overboard with turmeric (yellowness) it's good for you!

     I’m linking this recipe up to the January FaveDiets Blog Hop – Soups