[food/drink] A curried omnibus soup.

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Basically taken from this Epicurious recipe.

1 large sweet potato
1 medium onion
1 celery heart
1 large apple
1 banana
1 pint vegetable broth
1 cup heavy cream
1 tbsp unsalted butter
1 tsp salt
1.5 tsp curry powder
chopped chives (sprinkle on top)

Chop the fruits and vegetables and simmer in the broth, covered, until very tender. Stir in cream, butter & salt, and curry powder and heat until hot. Put it in a blender until it is soup.

Our soup came out a little gritty, either from not blending long enough or from not softening the vegetables enough. I think cutting the curry with something else (other Indian spices?) would have been nice, although it was tasty anyway.

I don't like celery, and while the celery heart didn't make the whole soup taste like celery, I'm wondering if it's the source of the "cafeteria soup" flavor that I could never identify, since this soup had it and, now that I think about it, that flavor is sort of like celery. Any suggestions about what one could substitute?

By the way, this soup is thick. Even in a relatively small saucepan, I had to simmer for a while and then moosh the vegetables around some more before I could even pretend they were all in the boiling water. I love dipping bread in soup, so 'thick' is okay with me, but next time I may use more broth.