Valentine’s Day week, 2021, remember that?!  The Big Freeze!  Snowmageddon! The Snowpocalypse!  The events seem blurry to me now but it was big deal, at the time.  Here, in the deep South, we were crippled by the massive arctic blast. 

My wife and I somehow found a way to commute to work, when others couldn’t, or were too scared to try.  We’re just rugged, that way, I suppose.  We came home, tired and hungry each day and our dinners were slapped together quickly with whatever food we had in the house and we went to bed early, only to face another day of bitter cold and icy roads.

It wasn’t until the end of the cold snap that I decided to make this suitable “cold day” meal. 

Ingredients:

1 large yam

2 medium yellow squash

3 green onions

1 cup broccoli

2 Tbs butter

¼ cup milk

2 Tbs heavy cream

1 cup turkey or chicken broth

Directions:

Wash and rinse vegetables.  Chop the vegetables into 1 to 2 inch pieces. 

Melt the butter in a large saucepan over low heat.  Add the vegetables to the pan and sauté for about  15 minutes, or until the vegetables begin to soften.

Add the turkey or chicken broth.  Simmer for 30 minutes.

Pour the vegetables and broth into a mixer and puree.

Return the pureed mix to the sauce pan and simmer at low heat.  Add a the milk and cream and simmer for a few more minutes, while stirring gently.

Remove to a serving bowl. 

Serve with warm bread and butter.