Orange Item of the week

I made my first two batches of soup today.  One a chicken and dumpling and the other a butternut squash.  Frankly, they both kind of sucked.  Dumplings are sort of hard to make, and they joined together in the pan into one large morman family sized dumpling.  My squash soup tasted like squash... and nothing else.  My leeks were old, I found them in the back of the fridge.  They might have been left over from last fall.  BUT, fear not, my pumpkin shaped Dutch oven is out and ready for better soups.  This is why it is the Orange Item of the Week!