Broccoli Cheese Soup

So with all this cold weather this week, I was looking for some comfort food. You know, warm fatty, no good foods. MMM, MMM, MMM. However, I'm on a strict food budget right to save up for our vacation next week so I had to work with what I had. I was already planning a yummy warm rot roast with mashed potatoes and gravy that night so what else could I do?

Photo courtesy of All Recipes

So I opened up the All Recipes Cookbook: Tried and True Top 300 Recipes I am borrowing from the library (Note to those that follow my blog: the library is amazing) and looked for something that could work. And low and behold, their Broccoli Cheese Soup sounded fantastic.

Only problem was

what I was REALLY craving

was Marie Callendar's Potato Cheese Soup

I just hadn't realized it yet

SO

this proved to be a huge problem in the end for me

So without further ado, here's the recipe:

Broccoli Cheese Soup

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter

1 onion, chopped

1 (16 oz) package frozen chopped broccoli

4 (14.5 oz) cans chicken broth

1 (1lb) loaf processed cheese food, cubed

2 cups milk

1 tbsp garlic powder

2/3 cup cornstarch

1 cup water

Directions:

1. In a stockpot, melt butter over medium heat. Cook onion in butter until softened. Stir in broccoli and cover with chicken broth. Simmer until broccoli is tender, 10-15 mins

2. Reduce heat and stir in cheese cubes until melted. Mix in milk and garlic powder

3. In small bowl, stir in cornstarch into water until dissolved. Stir into soup; cook, stirring frequently, until thick.

My Notes: This wasn't a fail. But isn't something I'm absolutely raving about. First off, I used fresh broccoli that I had in my fridge. And second of all, I had no idea what the hell processed cheese food was, was too lazy to google it and used 1lb of regular ol sharp cheddar cheese I had in the fridge instead. Apparently processed cheese food is Velveeta. Which I don't buy and I don't even know if I've ever even had. The cornstarch/water mix in step 3 didn't really turn out that great so the broth of the soup was pretty watery and the general consensus (which consisted of me, M and my mom) was that it good, not great and needed some salt.

And then I realized it was Marie Callendar's Potato Cheese Soup I was craving. Not Broccoli Cheese Soup. DUH!!