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Thursday 6 January 2011

Hot soup for cold weather

I've been making soup...having some straight away and freezing some for later.
A lump of stilton left over from Christmas makes a tasty ingredient - I'm not too fond of blue cheese on its own but combined with other flavours it's fine - and this is such an quick and easy soup.

All I did was chop a large onion and crush a clove of garlic.  In a large saucepan, fry gently in some olive oil for about 10 minutes.  Cut 2 heads of broccoli into florets. Add about 3 pints of chicken stock to the pan. Add the broccoli and simmer until tender.  Crumble in the stilton.  I used about 8 ounces.
Liquidise until smooth and add seasoning to taste.

6 comments:

  1. Hi, thankyou for visiting my blog. £10 for 5 chairs, wow a bargain. Your soup looks delicious. I made broccoli & stilton for the first time recently and it is absolutely delicious whilst being really easy to make.

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  2. mmm your soup looks delicious, we had had butternut squash soup today, soup is such perfect winter food x

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  3. hi Glad to have found you again Mary

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  4. Gorgeous! I love soup and will make soup with whatever I happen to have
    in the kitchen. Very satisfying! ;-)x

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  5. Hi Margaret and Noreen! It is so nice to visit you new blog. I was gone from blogland for a while as I only had moments here and there in the autumn while we moved house. It was not an easy move and I posted about it on my blog.

    This soup looks fabulously yummy and sounds so simple to make. I cannot buy stilton here but I will have to come up with a substitute so I can try it. We are huge soup fans here!

    Hugs from Holland ~
    Heidi

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