good peasant food

Monday I made a new cauliflower soup.  The previous curry-cauliflower soup recipe I have given you is seriously good, but this one also has cumin and calls for roasting the cauliflower ahead of time.  Roasted cauliflower is sublimely delicious.  Cumin speaks to my Mexican heritage.  As soon as I saw the recipe I knew I would be trying it.   

Verdict:  this is my new extra special, very favorite, all occasion cauliflower soup recipe.  I followed Joy the bakers recipe pretty closely except I added 2 heaping teaspoons of curry powder and I did not add the yogurt to the soup at the end, instead I like to add it right after I heat it up.  I take it to work for lunch and if you add the yogurt ahead of time and heat it in the microwave I think it separates a little.   I also used my immersion blender.  I may have said it before but if you don't have one of these things and you like to make soup... GET ONE!  So much easier to clean than the regular blender. 

The texture of this soup is not chunky and not silky, it's somewhere in between.  Good peasant food.  The cumin is a nice match for the curry, and the red pepper flakes add just the right amount of punch.   I ate some today with a few black truffle and sea salt pretzels (impulse buy I couldn't pass up last week) and carrot sticks.    

Thanks Joy the baker!  You drive safely as you head to New Orleans.  I don't know what I would do without you to turn me on to new and even more fabulous recipes. 

Comments

[Chris Oliveira]

Complete with the C on the covers...

[Erika N]

That Joy the Baker is a smash! I LOVE her recipes. Gotta try this soup. Thanks for recommending it.

[Judi]

And we know they are yours because of the "C". What a lovely reminder....not that you need one for Angie.

[Caroline]

The soup loves yummy. Love that you have shared soup previously.

[Maureen]

Sounds delicious to me! Those are good jars to freeze in also...do you freeze your extras?

[Jenny]

This looks delicious and I'm going to give it a try. I made chicken and kale soup the other night and since no one else in my family would eat it I thought of you. I froze the leftovers in individual servings and have been eating it for my lunch too. Here is the recipe if you're interested in giving it a try.
http://www.ourfifthhouse.com/2014/03/slow-cooker-chicken-kale-soup.html

[jeanette, mistress of longears]

I only recently discovered roasted cauliflower and I have to admit, I don't think I could possibly roast enough cauliflower to have enough left for the soup!