On 10/15/2020 10:34 PM, Doris Night wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 22:18:21 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>> My wife bought a squash with the idea of me making soup with it. She
>> threw it into the oven this evening and scooped it out when she one.
>> All I had to do was to chop up some onion, celery, carrot and a bit of
>> garlic, fry them up a bit, add some pepper, bay leaf and hit curry
>> powder, throw in the squash and some low sodium chicken broth, simmer it
>> for 45 minutes, remove the bay leave and whizz it up with my immersion
>> blender.
>>
>> I tasted it, and it is delicious.
>
> We love butternut squash soup, but it's getting to be a rare treat out
> here in Alberta.
>
> When I was in Ontario a couple of years ago, I recall that you could
> go to any farm stand and buy a squash for $0.99. Or you could pop a
> couple of seeds in your garden and get a dozen of the suckers for
> nothing. In Alberta, they run to $1.99/pound. So you have to be
> thrifty with them.
>
> I actually peel them, then carefully cut them up into cubes (not
> wasting any flesh whatsoever), and roast the individual pieces. I
> would find that roasting the whole squash then scooping out the flesh
> would be wasteful.
>

How is that wasteful?