Food Friday: Vitamix Broccoli Cheese Soup

 Recently I have been watching a lot of YouTube videos on Vitamix recipes.  The main reason for this is that lately I have not been using this expensive fabulous piece of kitchen equipment and thought that needed to change.  ALSO we have been eating more processed and store bought food recently and found weight creeping up.  For both of us. SO a change was needed.

Today I made the first Vitamix whole food meal in a while.

Vitamix Broccoli Cheese Soup

As usual I made a few changes in the recipe.  This is what I did:

2 1/4 cup soy milk with one somewhat heaping teaspoon of Better Than Bouillon Roasted Vegetable seasoning
4 1/2 cups frozen chopped broccoli (in this case a 16 ounce package)
1/8 teaspoon of freshly ground black pepper
1 1/2 cup chunked up extra sharp cheddar cheese

These items were placed in the Vitamix container in the order given.  ALWAYS put the wet/softest ingredients into the container first and graduate up to the hardest or frozen ingredients last.

The recipe called for starting the blender going on the lowest speed and gradually but quickly moving the dial up to the fasted speed.  WELL!! I did this BUT immediately the machine flipped the breaker switch which shut off the electricity to the kitchen so I had to go out into the garage to flip it back on.  Of course, with the truck and the car both in the garage I could not get to the panel so I had to go back into the house to get my keys so I could move the car out of the way.  

That done, I turned the switch left then all the way right  fully engaging it and went back into the house.  I followed the same procedure (starting at the lowest speed and moving rapidly up to the fastest speed) and had the SAME RESULT!  So I went back out to the garage and flipped the switch left then right again and went back into the kitchen.

This time I set the blender at the HIGHEST SPEED FIRST then turned on the machine.  Success this time.  The recipe calls for letting the soup blend for 5 minutes and 45 seconds.  I let it go until 6 minutes had passed.  When I took off the lid, there was that beautiful steaming hot cooked soup ready to eat.

The recipe says this will feed 3 servings so I used our larger soup (Corelle ware) bowls and poured out two servings.  Dear One and I both ate this rather delicious soup.  

Dear One's comment was, "This is not like ordinary broccoli cheese soup."  He was right.  The normal soup has chunks of broccoli and other vegetables, almost always which have not been chopped finely enough for him to not know he is eating broccoli.  This soup was silky and creamy and  maybe somewhat frothy.

It tasted great but was very filling. I managed to eat my whole bowl but he did not. Of course, he had been snacking before lunch which always makes him not as hungry as he needs to be before I set a meal on the table.  This is a habit I cannot break him of.  I have started asking what he has eaten and then deciding whether I am going to make a meal or not.  If all necessary calories for the day have been consumed, there is no point going to the effort of making a meal that will just be extra calories.  In my view...

Here is a bowl of the soup:

This bowl of soup was sprinkled with Tajin seasoning, because I like it, and because I thought the picture might be more interesting to look at...

Here is a jar with the leftovers! This is a quart jar.  You know what we will be eating tomorrow!

This was good enough soup.  We will have it again but I will reduce the amount of cheese.  And maybe put in some onions.  Possibly some garlic, too.