Potage, French Canadian Vegetable Potage

I have to make this and soon.  This looks like one of these items you make for a cold Fall day when it's just too miserable to be sitting outside.

Ingredients

1 Butternut Squash

1 Rutabaga or Turnip

2 Sweet potatoes

3 Carrots

3 Parsnips

6 Tbsps Olive Oil - divided

2 onions

4 to 6 stalks of celery

2 tomatoes

2 Tsps crushed garlic

Salt and Pepper

1 900 ml container of Chicken Stock

Optional - Maple Syrup, cream and butter

Stuff you will need

Cutting board

Sharp Knife

Veggie Peeler

Large Mixing Bowl

Cookie Sheet

Parchment Paper

Porcelain Cast Iron Dutch Oven or Stock pot 

Immersion Blender

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 F.

Peel and cut up the squash, turnip, sweet potatoes, carrots, and parsnips into cubes.  Put all the veggies into a mixing bowl, and toss with olive oil and salt & pepper.  Dump your veggies out onto a parchment paper covered cookie sheet and roast veggies for about 30 minutes.

While your root veggies are roasting, cut up your onions, celery, tomatoes.  In the Dutch Oven, add olive oil, onions celery and tomatoes.  Turn the stove burner to medium and fry them up for 10 minutes.  At the end, add crushed garlic.  Reduce heat to low.

Add your roasted veggies to the Dutch Oven.  Then add the chicken stock.  Using your immersion blender, blend everything till smooth and creamy.  Add some Maple Syrup to make it truly French Canadian (Optional).

Serve with cut up, buttered, baguette.  

When dishing up the potage, add a little cream and butter (optional).

I got this recipe from Vanessa Blais Mercier and this is her Facebook message:
Ok so it’s not exact mesurements but , butternut squash in cubes , couple of sweet potatoes , if they’re huge just use like 2 , couple of carrots , a ruttabaga , the like white carrots ? French for it is panais , all in a tray with salt pepper and oil and you roast them a bit, I add tomatoes and some garlic depending on how I’m feeling , then I’m a big pot you put some oil and you fry some onion and celery , then you put all of the other cute roasted veggie cube and you put some pints of either veggie or chicken broth , I usually do chicken , and you blend this until smooth, it’s at that point that I usually adjust the seasoning and add a touch of maple syrup, I don’t add cream or butter because I like to add it in my bowls 

Comments and suggestions are ALWAYS welcome!