Holiday Reading - Food Glorious Food

Ingredients

• 1 two lb acorn squash
• sprigs fresh thyme
• olive oil
• salt to taste
• 2 cups chicken or vegetable stock
• 1/3 cup heavy cream
• 1 tbsp honey
• poppy seeds
• slivered almonds

Instructions

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Cut squash into quarters and scrape off insides and seeds. Place them on a foil lined baking sheet and drizzle with olive oil. Season with thyme and salt. Bake for 1 hour.
2. Let squash cool, then scrape the flesh out into a blender or food processor, discarding any large thyme sprigs. Add chicken or vegetable stock and puree until smooth.
3. Run puree through a sieve and add to a pot. Add heavy cream and heat on high to a boil. Lower heat and simmer for five minutes, then stir in honey.
4. When serving, lightly sprinkle poppy seeds onto the middle of the soup. Drop a little bit of slivered almonds into the middle.

The book is called Hunger Games. The author is  Suzanne Collins. This type of book is fiction. The why i chose this recipe because the character Katniss ate this in the capitol.