parsnip and pecan butter soup

Ingredients

1 1/2 Cups parsnips chopped

1 Cup yam chopped 

1/2 Cup carrots chopped

1/2 Cup onion chopped

1/4 Cup ginger chopped

1 T dried daikon minced

1 T garlic minced
1 T dried burdock
2 T olive oil
1 T herbes de provence
1 t curry powder
1/2 t cumin

1/3 Cup pecan butter

1/2 Cup cilantro 

1 T tamarind  

2 T lemon juice

pinch of cayenne
saute roots in olive oil
add herbes de provence
stir
add
curry and cumin 
stir until fragrant
add two quarts water
simmer 20 mins
remove from heat
add pecan butter
tamarind 
lemon juice
cayenne
and
cilantro
puree with immersion blender
add water and salt
as needed


options and opportunities


toast and grind your own cumin seeds
mix your own curry
grow your own parsnips
Mix your own pecan butter
make a solar dehydrator
dehydrate your own daikon
use fresh burdock
peanut butter


song for the month


mistic garden
ain't talkin'
dylan

Black bean and Butternut

Black bean and Butternut

ingredients

1 and 1/2 lb butternut squash

1 cup black beans

 1/2 cup onion chopped

1/2 cup carrot chopped

1/2 cup celery chopped well

5 cloves garlic minced

1 jalapeno pepper 

 seeded and chopped
1 T ginger minced

1 T dehydrated burdock

1 T dehydrated epazote

1 T dehydrated daikon

1 T cumin seeds 

toasted and ground

2 T lemon juice

2 t fully mineralized sea salt

2 T olive oil
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soak beans 6 to 8 hrs

rinse and add to a 4 qt soup pot

add 3 qts water

rolling boil for 10 mins

remove foam

 simmer uncovered 45 mins
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cut squash in half

roast 40 mins in a 400 degree oven
remove and let cool
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add onion carrot and celery to the beans
add garlic jalapeno ginger epazote
burdock and daikon
add water as needed
return to simmer for 30 mins
remove from heat
peel squash chop and add 
add cumin lemon olive oil and salt
puree with immersion blender
add water and salt to taste
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options and opportunities
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drizzle olive oil on each bowl
add lemon juice
fresh epazote
fresh daikon
fresh burdock


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in Minnesota burdock grows wild