Earlier this week, I made what I know will now become my favorite soup ever. The combination of flavors is truly a thing of beauty: a perfect unity of spicy (chilies), sweet and creamy (coconut milk), fragrant (a mix of warm spices) and earthy (butternut squash). Although I try not to eat meat during the weekdays, as I was dreaming up this soup recipe, my cook’s intuition started yelling at me, “throw in some chorizo, throw in some chorizo, you MUST throw in some chorizo!” …

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