Soup is Good Food January 31, 2008

After a grueling day in a week that has felt so so so so long, I realized I have neglected my happy little home on the internet.Where to begin?  Well frankly, the more I move about the more good things I hear in the community for this other endeavor I am working on.  

That said, ugh, I wish I had known how busy I was going to get a year ago, I so would have planned better.  But this blog is not about bitching, this blog is about believing…(don’t stop thinking about tomorrow, don’t stop ….)

 

However after twelve hours at the office with other endeavor minutes thrown in, I came home hungry and without much food in the house.  So it was a great relief and irony that I had a chance to sit down and be inspired. 

 

O perhaps it takes me so little to be inspired but when you think about it, what are we going to do about all this rain?  I mean, ugh, it sucks, so why not succumb to it by cozying up to it and making a little soup. 

 

For those of us who find great joy in the kitchen, soup is a great resource to have up your sleeve.  It’s relatively easy especially when you have a top notch blender or adequate food processor at the ready, o I hope you didn’t think I was talking about cracking open a can of the Campbell’s.  I am simply appropriating their tag line. 

 

So if you’re shut in and reading this blog, a few seasonal vegetables and one tasty blue cheese will be about all you need to have filling, decadent but deceptively healthy looking soup.  I must give props to an ex boyfriend who helped create this recipe.  It’s a good thing we are still close friends or cooking would be a bittersweet experience.  I totally digress of course to bring you to:

 

Blue Broccoli Soup

 

2 cups of vegetable stock

 

1 onion chopped

 

1 smaller russet potato (or whichever potato you have around)

 

4 cloves garlic chopped

 

1 head of broccoli chopped

 

1 cup chop blue/Roquefort/stilton cheese

 

*Place chopped vegetables in a pot and bring to a boil, reduce heat until fork slides through potato.

 

*Then pour contents in pot into blender.

 

*Blend thoroughly, stopping to pour in blue cheese.

            -you may wish to pour in garlic powder if you want more of garlic kick!

 

Mmmm, mmm, mmm, pure loveliness as the strong flavors of garlic, bleu cheese and broccoli settle into your mouth. 

Now another variation is to utilize cauliflower instead of broccoli.  And then yet another variation is to make both but pour the cauliflower into a bowl and then place about 1-3 teaspoons of the broccoli soup in the middle of the bowl.  Try this at your next dinner party. Trust me, people will think you’ve got Martha Stewart chained to your stove in the kitchen.  I don’t know why but it just looks fantastic.

 

And that’s where I must claim total props as that was my gift to my ex.  He may have had the adventurous food spirit but I was the one who knew how to package it.  Isn’t that how things are supposed to work out though, even if they end in a way we had not intended?  Everyone gains something positive from one another.  

Now how is that soup?