Pumpkin-Ginger Soup

What's the occasion? It's cold, and there's a plethora of pumpkin.

Pumpkin-ginger soup garnished with toasted peanuts and pépitas.

There’s a recipe for carrot-ginger soup in The New Basics cookbook by Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins that I made a million times when I lived in Chicago after grad school. It was bright orange and bracingly gingery, as vivid in color as it was vibrant in flavor. I thought of that soup when I…