Hot Sauce Saves the Day (and the Rutabaga!)

Challenges help us grow. Never take the easy way out. To that end, I wanted to make something with unusual ingredients and selected rutabagas. Inspired by potato soup, root vegetables were prioritized as the base of this creation. This included heavily roasting them to get all the flavor possible. I elected to not do a full immersion blend to leave some chucks. This should have been a no-blend as the clunks gave all the flavor. Lessons learned, including a little roasted butternut squash for sweetness. I was hoping for a 5 or higher and achieved an overall rating of a 7, not bad for taking chances. My inferno hot sauce helped save the flavor day. Life is short, take chances, and when Conlan grabs that second bowl of soup like he did today, know that it is all worth it.