I made this pumpkin soup recipe back in Australia and I have been here in Istanbul, Turkey for more than 8 months now, so I’m a little late in posting it. I plan to start posting some Turkish recipes in the coming weeks as firstly they’re ridiculously tasty and secondly, I’m in Turkey!
But back to the pumpkin soup. I never used to like pumpkin at all. I never ate it for years and years as I would always tell people how disgusting it is and how I never ever touch it.
That was until I went to this beautiful little cafe overlooking the ocean late one afternoon. I was starving hungry but the cafe was almost out of food for the day as they were getting ready to close soon. All they could offer me was pumpkin lasagna but they said it was absolutely delicious. I got caught up in the enthusiasm they had for the lasagna and before I realized that I’ve always hated pumpkin I said yes, I’ll have some pumpkin lasagna and salad please!
And just as they had promised me, it was absolutely delicious! I could hardly believe it. This food that I had avoided all of my life was actually pretty good.
Next time I went to my mother’s place for a baked dinner I said I want pumpkin too. After she reminded me that I don’t like pumpkin I said just give it to me please, I think I might have been converted.
And voila, just as I had enjoyed the pumpkin lasagna at the ocean side cafe a week or two earlier, I ate all of my baked pumpkin! I could hardly believe it but I was now a card carrying pumpkin eater! 🎃
I remembered this lesson while here in Istanbul too. I’ve always disliked olives. Doesn’t matter if they’re green, black, stuffed or sprinkled with magic dust, I’ve never liked them. But here, there’s olives everywhere and people Love them. So from time to time I’ll try one.
I’m still not too fond of olives but I can eat a whole one without spitting it out. I can appreciate them a whole lot more but I have a bit of work before I can say I’m converted. Every month or two I’ll try an olive while I’m here.
Getting back to this easy creamy pumpkin soup recipe though, there’s a thousand different ways to make pumpkin soup. I make mine a little differently every time I make it.
So use the recipe below as a starting point but play around with it according to your taste and preference. Just have fun with it.
Let me know how you go with it in the comments below. Share your tips with others so we can all learn together 😀
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