Easy Cheesy Broccoli Soup with Spicy Homemade Croutons

If we have broccoli in the fridge I usually make this pasta dish. It’s a house favorite & is super easy to make from memory - no recipe needed if you make it as much as I do.  Every now & then I do like to change up even favorites which is always risky, but this time my friends it was a win - a big fat win. In fact, Chris calls this soup “the best soup I’ve ever had.”  I don’t mean to brag but I’ll take it.  It has all the same flavors of our favorite pasta dish with all the comfort of a soup. Plus, I added some spicy homemade croutons for a bit of crunch on top.

Besides being super tasty this soup is EASY! Give it a try & let me know if you like it as much as we did.

Easy Naan Bread Pizza with Veggies, Eggs & Goat Cheese

Inspired by Oh My Veggies recent pizza post & the leftovers in my fridge, I conjured up this dinner for one while dining solo the other night.  This is one of those meals that you can eat for breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner or linner or whatever time it is.

Roasted Broccoli & Cauliflower with Toasted Garlic

I love, ahem loved, Whole Living Magazine. Sadly it has folded with most of the other great glossies of it's time. I recently received a letter in the mail saying they (the good publishing people) would fulfill the rest of my Whole Living subscription with Everyday Rachel Ray. My immediate reaction was - it's not the same. And while it isn't the same I'm warming up to it &  have found some good recipes in it like the Roasted Broccoli with Toasted Garlic one.

We had a head of broccoli & a head of cauliflower in our fridge so I used the combination with my new found recipe.

What's your favorite lifestyle magazine? Would love to learn about your recommendations, please comment below with your favorite!

Pasta with Sautéed Broccoli & Garlic

Pasta with sautéed broccoli & garlic I hands down one of my favorite things to eat. I eat it at home & order it at restaurants. It's my go to comfort food. We probably eat it about 4 times a month, so much so that I cannot believe that I haven't posted my perfected recipe yet.

After making this dish a bunch of times I've found a way to use less oil than I originally thought that this needed to have to be considered tasty and to not brown the garlic but to add it at the end of cooking instead. I add just enough cheese that melts in & seems to disappear so that sister-in-laws who hate cheese have no idea what's really in there (teee heee) but they don't care because it tastes that good.

No worries, the day has come, I'm going to share all those secret tips with you.  Get my fool proof recipe after the jump.

Broccoli & White Cheddar Soup

When winter is in the air I only want to eat warm cozy bowls of soup.  I found a recipe for broccoli cheese soup on the super tasty recipe-filled blog,  not without salt.  I adapted this recipe to make it my own yummy (less heavy) version for dinner. I think this would be a great warm-up dish for Turkey Day.

Click through to see how I kept this soup rich & creamy without using cream!