A Season Of Cooking: Soups

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Don’t you just LOVE winter time?? I love to be able to make Soups. All Kinds of soups, Chicken soup, meatball soup, split pea soup, cream soups and have grilled cheese or toast with the soups….mmmmmm….. Sorry, got a bit caught up, but I am sure that you can tell how much I love them. Some soups are kind of out of season in the winter though so it makes it harder to make them so I have a suggestion for getting those ingredients for your soups a lot cheaper.

First off if you have a soup recipe you love pay attention to when the fresh veggies you ned are on sale. for a soup we make the carrots are in season in the fall or early winter depending on where you live. So get them when they are on sale and buy a lot. then cut them up and put them in your freezer. some of the veggies you get will have to be blanched to do this. Blanching as an easy process. You take the veggies and you put them in boiling water for a minute or 2 and then you take them out and put them directly into ice water. this stops the cooking process and keeps them from becoming like fully cooked veggies. Once they are fully cooled you take them out and towel dry them. They are then ready to go into a container to freeze. Then you can save them for use in your soups that you make. This way you save money by only buying things in season and you can still have the soups you love in the winter!

The recipe I want to share is one I haven’t made yet. (Daring hu??) I will be making it tomorrow and I will post a video of me making it! I promise to cut out the boring parts, don’t worry! But the recipe is for Broccoli Cheese Soup. I have never made it before but it has always been one that I LOVE to eat when I am out places. This Recipe is from All Recipes website and it has a few alterations in the comments some people have made if you are interested in trying some different things.

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter
1 onion, chopped
1 (16 ounce) package frozen chopped broccoli
4 (14.5 ounce) cans chicken broth
1 (1 pound) loaf processed cheese food, cubed
2 cups milk
1 tablespoon garlic powder
2/3 cup cornstarch
1 cup water

Directions

In a stockpot, melt butter over medium heat. Cook onion in butter until softened. Stir in broccoli, and cover with chicken broth. Simmer until broccoli is tender, 10 to 15 minutes.
Reduce heat, and stir in cheese cubes until melted. Mix in milk and garlic powder.
In a small bowl, stir cornstarch into water until dissolved. Stir into soup; cook, stirring frequently, until thick.

I will probably be adding more cheese and more broccoli to mine. I can’t wait to make it.

What is your favorite winter soup??? If you have a recipe to share, write about it on your blog and link the here so we can all have a great collection of recipes to share and save money by cooking in season!! If you have no blog, no worries! Leave a comment and share what you would like to there!