Showing posts with label cheese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cheese. Show all posts

Friday, April 1, 2011

Broccoli Cheese Soup


* We linked this post at Fight Back Friday at Food Renegade  and Monday Mania at the Healthy Home Economist *

Earlier this month I posted a broccoli soup that I liked, but it  lacked the cheesy creaminess that you might expect when ordering broccoli soup at a restaurant.  The common household method (and probably at most restaurants too) of making a broccoli cheese soup is to use a block of Velveeta-- a far cry from "real" cheese.  This recipe, uses all real ingredients, and resulted in a wonderfully smooth and cheesy goodness that even a toddler should have a hard time turning down.  In this recipe you also get to learrn fancy terms like roux, bechamel, and mornay. 

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

The Very Best Fried Eggs (according to Dude2)


Eggs are a staple for breakfasts at my house, so I've had the opportunity to try cooking them in dozens (maybe hundreds) of different ways.  For over easy fried eggs, this is my favorite of the bunch: