The best part of any tempura plate has to be the thin, crescent-moon shaped slices of kabocha squash. Smooth and sweet - the sweetest of the winter squashes - they always seem to steal the show. This curry-spiced squash soup is a great way to savor the flavor of kabocha squash without anything else getting in the way.

For the past few weeks, the farmers market's been overflowing with winter squash. This last Saturday, though, these beautiful organic sweet maui onions appeared. Then I remembered this soup recipe, and that the two main ingredients are kabocha squash and onion. Bingo.