Fall Is For Soup!

This past Sunday at the Providence Flea was a fabulous fall day, and I don't know about you, but fabulous fall days always make me want soup. We were chatting with Anne Marie of Belle Toi, and I told her all about my favorite fall soup recipe, so for the blog today, I thought I'd also tell all of you!

Now, I'm a little imprecise with recipes, so you'll have to forgive me, I don't have any exact amounts on any of the ingredients (cooking is an art, just go with what you feel).

So here you go, the perfect fall soup - Butternut squash, apple, and chicken soup!

Ingredients:
chicken breast
butternut squash, diced
sweet potato, diced
onion (I prefer sweet onions, but follow your heart)
1 tbsp flour (the only exact measurement I have for you)
fresh sage
fresh ginger
​apple cider
apple (I prefer something on the tart side, but again, follow your heart)

Dice and cook the chicken - if you want to do this only dirtying one pot, cook the chicken in the soup pot, and then take it out and set it aside. If you don't care about multiple dirty dishes, I like to cook the chicken simultaneously with the rest of the soup prep to save time.

Chop up the onion and saute it in the pot with the sage and ginger. I use about a tablespoon and a half of each, but I'd start with a tablespoon and add if you feel like it.

Once the onion is nicely cooked, toss in the squash and sweet potato, and a tbsp of flour, and stir up. Add two cups of water and two cups of apple cider, and stir up again - make to sure to get any little bits that have stuck to the bottom. Add the chicken, and simmer until soft. Then buy (or make!) a loaf of bread, and enjoy!