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"I have been felled by the same ailment that turned my son into a limp ball of misery last week. Chills, fever (which, mercifully, passed quickly) and now a vicious cough. So yesterday after I dropped the kids off at my parents&amp;#039; house I came home to curl up on the sofa with a really bad Christmas movie and a bowl of soup. This soup uses warm spices and maple syrup judiciously, to gently emphasize the sweetness of the sweet potato. I made just a bit of this soup with 1 potato and half of the rest of the ingredients, because I find that soups like this get to be too much after a while.   I started with 1 cup chopped onion and 1/2 cup chopped celery, cooking them in a tablespoon of butter until they started to soften. Then I added a chopped garlic clove and cooked a minute more. Tipped in 1 medium sweet potato that I had cut into 1-inch pieces and added 2 cups chicken stock, 1 cinnamon stick and 1/4 teaspoon each ground nutmeg and salt. Simmered until the potato was soft, about 20 minutes, then pureed with a stick blender. Added 1 tablespoon maple syrup and 3/4 cup milk.  Below, a different way to go with sweet potatoes in a stew. Also, a couple of butternut squash soups, which I find have a lot in common with the sweet potato soup:  Mexican Pork and Sweet Potato Stew Gingered Squash and Pear Soup Winter Squash Bisque \u2014 Kim Walker "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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