Baked Butternut Squash Fries

  Do you know about the girl food code? It's a thing most girls go through when in high school or college, but it always stays in the back of your mind.  It usually goes like this,"I can eat this is I do this many more crunches" or "If I eat this food with this food, they will counteract each other so it's okay"..like ordering a salad with a side of fries. Well, now you can have your salad with a side of these slightly healthier baked squash fries!

This is the conversation between my dad and I while eating the fries...

My dad: These sweet potato fries taste just as good as white potato fries with ketchup.

Me: They aren't sweet potato fries, they are butternut squash fries.

Dad: SQUASH fries! You fed me squash fries!?

Me: Uh no, you can't go back!  You already said you liked them and you can't take it back because I told you  they were squash. 

Dad: Fine, they are good.We did the same thing when we were traveling in Morocco; we didn't want them to tell us what we were eating and if we liked it, we left it at that.

Butternut Squash Soup

Things have been busy lately.
I've been 2 differnent doctors this week, got lots of blood drawn, and 2 shots which made my arms sore the next day. This morning I somewhat finished the shopping list for our thanksgiving dinner, made pancakes,study some for my SAT , and roasted a butternut squash for soup (recipe below).

     Thanksgiving this year for our family will not be on Thanksgiving day. My grandparents, aunt, and uncle are going my uncle's sister's for thanksgiving and my mom is going to a friend's daughter's house leaving my dad and I at home. My dad will be cleaning the house while I make and prepare the sides and desserts for the 26th which is when at least 16 people will be crowded into our house talking and eating for our "late" Thanksgiving.
    Then exactly 1 week after that, I have my SAT test to take, a youth breakfast to attend, and will be testing out cookie recipes for both our church lunch in and to give as presents, and making mini loaves of bread because Garden Ridge has holiday mini loaf pans that were only 99 cents each so I bought some.
    Then somehow I have to make a few dozen cookies for our church's Holiday Lunch in, go to another church's camp where they take kids and teens who are underprivaleged to have a good meal, interact with other kids, ride horses, and such, and then wake up extra early the next day to head to church to prepare for the lunch in (and I possibly might have to be in a play on that day too, but I have no clue) all in a 2-3 day time frame.
And that is not nearly everything I have planned or scheduled to do this holiday season.
I might need to hibernate for a few months after this is all over with.

   I have another soup recipe to share. No its not the french onion soup recipe I was going to share first, but this soup is pretty tasty. Its a butternut squash soup recipe that I made up after looking over serveral other recipes for butternut squash soup. This soup doesn't have any dairy or cream in it, but you would never know that by how rich and creamy it is. Also I roasted the squash in the oven first, which took little effort and made peeling the squash extremely easy.

Butternut Squash Soup topped with pepper and bacon -
I added pine nuts too, but I was hungry and chose to eat the soup instead of taking a picture of it.