We had pumpkin stew and other leftovers for dinner Sunday night.  I had painting  on Monday until 2:30.  However, facing the same leftover stew again was more than i could handle.  I wanted soup.  I pulled all the beef and set it aside from the vegetables in the stew.  I put the vegetables in a large pot and added a qt. of my homemade vegetable broth and left over heavy cream, it was about 1/4 C at most.  I used 3 t salt, 1 t pepper and thyme, sage, rosemary that was drying on the counter.  I also added about 1/2 t pumpkin pie spice. I added the broth in batches and used my immersion blender.  I also added all those herbs and spices and tasted all along.  When it was warm, I added back in the beef that I had cut in smaller pieces.  This was the best pumpkin soup I have ever tasted.