Bountiful Butternut Squash and Scrumptious Sweet Potato Soup (vegan)

For the soup...you can use as many squash and sweet taters as you want! We used 3 small squash and 3 sweet taters.  
First step- peel the squash, remove seeds and dice (pics below)
              - peel and dice sweet potatos
Place all pieces into a large pot.  Fill pot with a mix of water/veg broth (low sodium).  Just barely cover all the diced pieces with water.  Let that boil on medium/high heat until diced pieces are tender.
     -can add some spices now, such as: chili powder, crushed red pepper, garlic, curry, etc. We used        crushed red pepper.
     -After about 15 min of boiling, add diced onion and garlic if you wish.
Once tender (maybe 30 min or so), mash up with water.  When pieces are mashed, place in blender.  Blend until smooth-ish.


Poor back into pot and you have some wonderful soup!

As a topping you could make a red pepper puree with red bell pepper, crushed red pepper flakes and water.  Blend together and place a spoonful on soup.  We did not have any bell peppers in the house to do this. bummer!