Cream of Broccoli

Don’t reach for a can when you have broccoli on hand.

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I don’t remember my mom making soup from scratch when I was a kid. It was usually an out-of-the-can easy meal with grilled cheese or for me grilled peanut butter and jelly. (I had cheese issues for years, I’m now making up for lost time.)

Thankfully, culinary school and the subsequent career taught me all I wanted to know about soup because soup from a can is not something that I recommend eating.

Most soup from a can gives soup a bad name. I know it’s an easy and almost healthy option. But, making a blended vegetable soup takes little hands on time, you will eat more vegetables and it will taste better.

The best part about making a blended soup is that you don’t have to worry about cutting up the vegetables with any skill or technique. It is an easy way to cook from scratch without all the prep work that comes with cooking.

You get to use my favorite kitchen appliance, the immersion hand blender. An immersion blender doesn’t dirty any extra dishes except the blade that does the cutting. You just turn off the heat and dunk it in your pot and go. (Be careful about keeping the blade under the surface of the food.) This is my all time favorite kitchen appliance that you can use for almost anything that you would use a…