best broccoli. and cauliflower.

since falling in love with the best broccoli recipe back in april, i have cooked it regularly. a bit too regularly it has sometimes felt like so, this weekend, i decided to make a change. nothing major, just the addition of some cauliflower florets.

i love cauliflower, especially if it is covered with a velvety blanket of cheese sauce, but david is not keen. i think the new version of "best broc & cauli" tempted him to eat a bit more than usual but there were still leftovers. which i turned into a version of my easy broccoli and cauliflower soup.  

simple broccoli and cauliflower soup

sorry for the quiet blog this week, somehow i managed to lose track of myself and it’s now friday despite the fact that my brain is still in tuesday afternoon mode.

recently we’ve been enjoying having friends and family to stay and as a result have been eating particularly well. some of the meals have been rich indulgences – a version of this chorizo-stuffed pork tenderloin seemed to go down well with david’s parents – and other less so, including this broccoli and cauliflower soup.

this was a very quick and simple supper but the soup had a wonderful flavour, not least the gentle garlicky undertones which added a bit of interest to the brassicas. i kept this quite thick and it made a substantial meal with gruyere topped croutons, but you could easily make it thinner by adding more stock and, if you want to be indulgent, a splash of cream wouldn’t go amiss.

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