Well, we are finally on the mend again... I'm sorry for such a long break between posts. Everyone one has been sick at least once in the last 6 weeks here. Three adults, three kids all down at varying times with some sort of bug. I am hopeful that the last of it has now passed.
Today is a snowy and windy kind of day. Great day to make some home made buns and my favorite broccoli cheese soup. There are very few things I enjoy more than a good thick bowl of cream of broccoli soup. Given my cooking history I had to search high and low for a good recipe that I could actually manage to make.
The broccoli cheese soup recipe I found first was heavy on onions, so it didn't really taste like broccoli anything. But the directions were simple enough and, after all, this is soup I'm making... I just used less onions the next time. It was great when I made it for me, so I attempted to share with the family.
It's not a favorite for every one, but it is definitely something they will all eat. And that is a rare occasion here!
Right now, while I write, the veggies are simmering away on the stove in half broth/half water. Today I've added a small onion and a clove of garlic as well as some celery. (I'm really big on onions right now, since they do seem to help fight these flu germs!)
It smells absolutely FANTASTIC in my house right now.
Once the buns are ready to bake, I will add the cheese and make the soup rich and creamy.
The dough is rising as we speak and the buns will be fresh out of the oven just in time for dinner. I'm making the pull apart buns (also called clover leaf buns, I guess) as they are a family favorite. Thank you to my dear mother in law for letting me in on that secret!! I've never known my trucker to eat so much of something home baked!
Just by changing the way I baked them, I transformed these buns from 'okay' to 'awesome'.
And there is nothing... absolutely nothing better .....than having still warm buns to dip in the broccoli cheese soup that has been slow cooked all day... when the snow is blowing all around the house.
Stay warm!!
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