B Is For Broccoli

B is for broccoli, and one of my favourite soups, broccoli and stilton. This traditional soup recipe is full of flavour and so easy to make. It can also make a very wholesome lunch when served with some fresh crusty bread.

Suggestion for cooking broccoli:

Just take a large, roughly chopped onion and cook it in a touch of olive oil until soft (don’t let it go brown!), add a large potato, peeled and cubed and about litre of vegetable stock and bring the stock up to the boil then turn to simmering, cooking until the potato pieces are soft, next add a good sized head of broccoli, broken into pieces not too small and cook for a further 3 or 4 minutes (you don’t want the broccoli to overcook here, just keep it green and slightly firm), then add stilton to taste, I would recommend about 60g-100g for this amount of stock. Save a little of the stilton to crumble into the soup just before serving.

B is also for Bernaise sauce, however with the terrible shortage of tarragon this year due to the weather a large number of top restaurants in Great Britain have stopped serving this popular accompaniment.

Some things beginning with ‘B’ that you may not associate with eating are:

blackbird, which can be served in a pate or terrine;
bog myrtle, which used to be a very popular herb and has a flavour similar to bay leaves;
beaver, which is now only eaten in Germany but was once part of the diet of North American Indians;
bracken, the unopened leaves are edible; and
broom, a shrub now but in medieval England the buds were preserved in vinegar and used as capers.

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