Sounds like a great soup, Chocomouse!
For dinner on New Year's Day, I made Pork Loin Roast with Barley, Butternut Squash, and Kale. It is the perfect one pot dinner for a cold day. Butternut squash was not plentiful at the farmers market this fall, for some reason, and I also have seen less of it in the grocery store. Last year, I made lots of Butternut squash soup but not so this year.