Last Soup Of This Winter (Chow)

My dinner last night was perhaps my biggest kitchen disaster in this house -- a failed carrot soup that tasted like overcooked canned carrots coupled with a lentil and fruit dish where the red lentils fell apart into a mush and the whole thing tasted mostly like limp baked apples. So, here is a photograph of a yummy vegetarian soup I made last week from some sweet potato and butternut squash, along with a little herb garlic bread.