yummy pumpkin soup

Tonight, I am posting live from the kitchen at Chez Kate.  I love wireless.  The kitchen is quiet now.  Just some eggs hardboiling on the stovetop.  A cup of tea spicing the air.  The dishes are done (finally) and the soup stuff is cleaned up or in the freezer. 
When a good friend came to sit shiva with me over my mother's departure from the time zone and my turning 34, she brought an incredibly delicious pumpkin soup.  Impressively, she had bought a pumpkin, and made this soup from absolute scratch.  I did not do that today.  I did have another good friend come over this afternoon with her immersion blender.  Hers is uniquely cool, even beyond the usual immersion blender, but as I have no immersion blender of my own, I would have been happy with anything that meant I didn't have to scoop and dump into a standing blender.
The soup turned out very well, thanks to a couple tips and tricks I learned.  I've decided one way to measure a friend is if they can work in your kitchen and you can work in theirs.  I have some very good friends.
Here is the soup recipe, I actually skipped the milk and lime juice.  I didn't have lime juice and I opted instead for a dollop of creme fraiche in the bowl.  It was really, really good.
Pumpkin soup

Soundtrack for this culinary delight: old school Strangefolk