Yellow Squash Soup for International Women’s Day

Yellow is the flavour of the month. The excellent Livestrong Event and now Zorra is also using Yellow as the inspirational colour for International Women’s Day Read about it here on her blog.

So as luck would have it I have been cooking a bit with yellow food and I can dedicate this post to the event.
Asha from Foodies Hope made this herb bread

Click here for the recipe

It is an Herb Swirl Bread

You make the dough.
Let it rise
Roll it out and brush it with this lovely herb oil mix
¼ cup butter, softened I used olive oil
strong>1/3 minced fresh parsley or ¼ dry parsley
1 tablespoon minced chives
1 teaspoon garlic powder
½ teaspoon cumin powder
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon dry red chilli flakes

Then roll it up like as for pinwheel scones

Rise again another hour

Bake 190C 20-25 minutes

So to accompany this bread
I made soup

So Simple Butternut Squash Soup

Cut up 1 butternut squash
Remove seeds
Cut up into chunks
Cut up a large onion
Toss all in olive oil and season with salt & freshly ground black pepper
Roast 190C till fork tender

Remove skins and pop into a pot
Cover with chicken stock
Simmer about ½ hour

With a wand blender puree till smooth

Garnish with strip of sautéed red pepper
And to make it special
Drizzle with leftover herb oil

An excellent soup and fabulous bread
All So So Simple