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Our Blogger Friends School from Training Hearts this week is to share anything related to pumpkins. We are not big fans of pumpkins around here ~ none of my family cares for pumpkin foods. We do have one soup that we will eat occasionally, so here I will share the recipe with you.

Pumpkin Curry Soup

• 2 Tablespoons butter or margarine
• 1 Cup (1 small) chopped onion
• 2 large cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 1 1/2 teaspoon curry powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
• 3 Cups chicken broth
• 1 can (15oz) Libby’s 100% Pure Pumpkin
• 1 can (12 fl. oz.) Carnation Evaporated Milk

Melt butter in large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic; cook, stirring frequently, for 2 to 3 minutes or until tender. Stir in curry powder, salt and pepper; cook for 1 minute.

Add broth and pumpkin; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low; cook, stirring occasionally, for 15 to 20 minutes. Stir in evaporated milk. Transfer mixture to food processor or blender (in batches, if necessary); cover. Blend until smooth. Serve warm.

Notes: Serve with hot, crusty bread and a pear and walnut salad ~ yum!

Be sure you use 100% pumpkin and not pumpkin pie mix ~ there’s a big difference between them , and your soup will be inedible (trust me, I know this from experience).

When the kids were little, we would begin a unit study on Thanksgiving right around this time of year. We don’t do Halloween, which seems to be the biggest focus as far as pumpkins are concerned. So, rather than focus on the “harvest festivals” and such that occur during this time of year, we turned our focus completely on God and how He worked in the lives of the Pilgrims. Our unit study would carry us through the month until Thanksgiving Day. It was a wonderful way to keep our focus on God and build up to a lovely day of thanking Him, worshiping Him, and fellowshiping with others who love Him.

We would make turkeys out of pumpkins ~ brightly colored feathers glued to popsicle sticks and stuck into the pumpkin, and a turkey face with a little black pilgrim hat also on a popsicle stick and stuck into the pumpkin. We made hand turkey name place cards for the table (draw around your hand, color it in like a turkey). This one isn’t pumpkin related, but it’s so cute and fun I wanted to share it. On our wall we would have a large sheet of white butcher paper with a bare tree drawn on it. Throughout the month we would draw and cut out different colored leaves, then write something we were thankful for on it and paste it to the tree. By the time Thanksgiving came along, we would have the funniest looking tree ~ who knew tress could grow leaves out of the bark on their trunk?! We always filled up the branches with leaves and would have to find creative ways to add more leaves ~ on the trunk, on the ground under the tree, even floating down from a branch. We really enjoyed this project. You know, you could draw a couple of pumpkins out of construction paper and place them on the wall under the tree ~ there you go, I included pumpkins in that project!

The verse that popped into my head as I was writing this post is:

Give thanks to the Lord for he is good; his love endures forever. Psalm 106

Have a wonderful, blessed week!

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