Butternut Squash Bisque w/ Roasty-Toasty Bell Peppers

I'll never be a famous blogger that makes tons of money from the shear volume of hits they have on their website and the ads they have on their pages, or receive a million offers a month to host giveaways for washers and dryers, hair products and new cookware and cloth diapers and ... new cars, or whatever the heck people get for just being a blogger. Or go on talk shows and become a famous chef, that no one really knows anything about... mysteriously... PepperOnce is a recipe box. It's open for whomever may pass along and look inside and find something that sparks their interest and ACTUALLY cooks it for their family. It's a recipe catalog of things I cook once and forget I ever made, so that my husband can scroll through the pages and decide what we're having for dinner next week (because I HATE being the only one planning the family menu). It's a fun place to get out my frustration of being a stay-at-home mom with nothing else to do but clean up cheerios and poop all day long... comforting boo-boos along the way. It's a recipe box for my daughter, for the day that she leaves for college and realizes that she never listened to any of my cooking advice, gains 15 pounds her first week eating cafeteria crap food, and can't travel home every weekend to eat my food - she can figure out easily from my blog how to cook it herself. Or I can print it out and gift it to her when she gets married. It's a place I can share a little more of myself with people I don't get to hang-out with very often, but wish I could get to know better. It's one of the best ways to share a funny story (or, obviously, a good recipe) with my best friend. It's one of the only avenues of remaining fairly anonymous. It's a place I can brag. (It's definitely not a place I can be "real" because my mom's reading it... But,) It's mine. It's a place for me. No one else has any real say. Suggestions, sure. Decisions, naught! I can make up whatever the heck I want, and someone might actually take my advice on it. I do have more hits from other countries most days, so I can call things what I want... And I'm calling this a Bisque...

A bisque is by the very name and etymology of the word made from seafood. Never you mind this small detail, this is a bisque. And a really dang good one at that.

WHAT YOU NEED:

1-1&1/2 lbs. Butternut Squash, chopped (bags of frozen works GREAT!)

1 small bag of mixed frozen Organic Bell Peppers

1 large Onion, sliced

1 clove minced Garlic

2 TBSP. Unsalted Butter

2 TBSP. Olive Oil

Sea Salt & Fresh Ground Black Pepper

4 cups Veggie Broth

1 cup Heavy Whipping Cream

HOW TO:

In medium saucepan, over medium heat, melt butter with olive oil. Saute onion and peppers. (This would've been SO much better if I had roasted the peppers!!! But, alas, they were the bagged frozen kind.) Add garlic towards end of that. Salt at each stage, lightly. Add squash. Cook for about 10 minutes, half-covered. Add veggie broth and let boil for 5-ish minutes, stirring a few times. Pepper it up! (Black pepper makes everything better!) If you do not have an immersion blender, use a regular blender. Add cream when blending. Serve piping hot! *Pairs perfectly with Ham-Swiss-and-Mayo sandwiches (Arnold's Oat Nut Bread is PERFECT!!)

Simple. Easy. Quick. YUMMY!

ENJOY!! =)