Butternut Squash Soup with Parmesan Bread and Apple Pecan Salad
added 03/07/08
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Grocery list for
four:
Grocery: 1 bottle
vinaigrette dressing, Olive oil
Produce: 1 Red
Delicious Apple, 1 Golden Delicious Apple, 1 head Boston lettuce
Bakery: 1 small
loaf Italian Bread
Cheese: 4 oz. grated
Parmesan Cheese
PFD: 4 cups Butternut
Squash Soup
Bulk: 4 oz. pecans
15 minutes ahead:
Reheat Butternut
Squash Soup in a medium-sized pot. Let simmer until ready to serve.
Preheat oven to 350
degrees F.
Cut Italian bread
length-wise into two slices. Spread olive oil onto each slice and sprinkle
with cheese. Toast in oven 5-8 minutes or until golden brown.
10 minutes ahead:
Wash, core, and coarsely chop the apple. Combine with the pecans and
vinaigrette in a medium bowl. Divide the lettuce among 4 salad plates.
Top with the fruit
and nut mixture.
Dinner’s ready:
Place the soup in bowls. Serve with Parmesan bread and Apple Pecan salad.
The Dietitian says: Orange-colored vegetables, such as butternut
squash, are a great source of vitamin A, and an ounce of Parmesan cheese
provides more calcium than a cup of milk. Use a large Golden Delicious
apple, and each serving of the salad will provide 2 servings of produce!
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If you shop the delicious Prepared Foods counter of our Hanover Food Store (pssst: If you don’t, you should!), then no doubt you’ve met the cheerful, smiling face of Dani Monteith. Dani is a manager there and long-time Co-op employee, and earns the respect of peers and customers alike. Not long ago the Co-op decided to send a select group of employees to study a progressive management philosophy in St. Louis so they could return and help teach the material to other Co-op staff. Out of more than 350 employees, Dani was one of only four chosen to go. She’s smart and capable, and will even dress up in silly costumes to make the kids smile on Halloween!
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