{"id":8430,"date":"2012-10-25T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/?p=8430"},"modified":"2012-10-29T22:31:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T05:31:48","slug":"the-best-cauliflower-soup-ive-ever-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/the-best-cauliflower-soup-ive-ever-had\/","title":{"rendered":"The best cauliflower soup I’ve ever had."},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey there chickens!<\/p>\n

I love hanging out over here- thanks for having me again.<\/p>\n

It might be the last time, after I hit you with my latest creation.<\/p>\n

Let me give you a little context though:<\/p>\n

JW, my husband and partner-in-crime, will eat almost everything.<\/p>\n

He will not, however, eat cauliflower. And for some reason, after six years of knowing and accepting this fact, I decided it was time for me to change his attitude.<\/p>\n

So I searched the internet high and low for a recipe that I thought might do the trick.<\/p>\n

And finally, I fell onto this one: Silky Cauliflower Soup<\/a>\u00a0and I thought,\u00a0hey, this could be it.<\/em><\/p>\n

I announced my intentions to JW, who cast a sidelong glance in my direction, and headed to the Farmers’ Market, where I found and purchased this beauty.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This was certainly the largest vegetable I’d ever encountered.<\/p>\n

When JW asked how much it cost, I told him a mere $4, and he answered\u00a0you paid too much.<\/em><\/p>\n

Again, this did not deter me.<\/p>\n

The recipe itself is super easy. You chop up a head of cauliflower, an onion, and some garlic. Then you saute the onion and garlic, add the cauliflower and some chicken broth, and walk away for awhile.<\/p>\n

The hardest part, I would say, is dealing with The Vegetable in Question.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Obviously, this was no normal “one head” of cauliflower. This was a distaster that ended up all over my counters. And my floors. And everything else.<\/p>\n

I felt like I was in a cartoon, since with every knife stroke I took, displaced florets flew around me.<\/p>\n

I took a break to saute the aforementioned garlic and onion.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Eventually, I wrangled it all and managed to fit it into a pot with the rest of the ingredients.<\/p>\n

And forgot to take a picture.<\/p>\n

I was exhausted, chicks.<\/p>\n

After bringing it all to a boil, covering it, and letting it simmer for about 45 minutes, the mixture was nearly mush.<\/p>\n

Which is generally not the idea, but in this case, it is.<\/p>\n

At that point, I whipped out my immersion blender, laid into the once-mighty-but-now-weak florets, and kept going until everything was a soup consistency.<\/p>\n

I also added two more cups of chicken broth at this point, because my monster head of\u00a0cauliflower\u00a0didn’t really hold up to the original proportions of the recipe.<\/p>\n

Then I threw in about a cup of grated parmesan cheese, doubling it from the original recipe because of my increased yield, and also, because I love cheese.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I know it’s not a looker, chickens, but let’s not judge a book by its cover.<\/p>\n

This is a pretty solid soup that can be made vegetarian and is also full of good-for-you nutrients (it’s a great source of vitamin C and potassium, in case you were wondering). If I did it again, I’d use either less cauliflower or more chicken broth, because all week, it’s basically looked like I’m bringing mashed potatoes for lunch.<\/p>\n

Not like that’s a bad thing, mind you.<\/p>\n

As for JW? He ate it for lunch today, citing it as “the best cauliflower soup he’s ever had.”<\/p>\n

Despite knowing it’s the first (and probably last) soup of this kind he’ll ever taste, I intend on taking that as a compliment.<\/p>\n

It’s just the way I am, chicks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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