Throw-Up Soup?

So my husband keeps sending me recipes from Civilized Caveman, and they all promise that I'll have the ingredients or that they'll be easy, and he's mostly right. Tonight for dinner, I made Sun Dried Tomato Broccoli Soup. It's basically onion, garlic, sun-dried tomatoes, broccoli, and chicken broth. Pretty simple. Then you use the immersion blender to made it creamy. His picture looks kind of like squash, kind of orange and harmless. My reality - whether I didn't have enough tomatoes or I had too much broccoli - was a kind of brown lumpy mess. Which I gave a creative and possibly off-putting name to. Don't get me wrong; it tasted good! But I wouldn't use it to impress my mother-in-law with my plating skills!!! 

We had some leftover chicken breast, so I diced that up and threw it in, and that was a great addition. Steve thought it tasted garlicky, and I thought it just tasted like the sun-dried tomatoes. 

I also made Acorn Squash with Pecans and Cranberries. Her recipe says walnuts, but they look like pecans to me!! Is that a thing people have trouble telling apart?? Anything, this time, mine DOES look like the picture (well, with inferior lighting). I also used coconut oil instead of butter and that worked out just fine. The filling is the best part! This would be a GREAT side dish for Thanksgiving!!