Did you know that yesterday was World Vegan Day? I celebrated by eating a vegan breakfast, vegan lunch, and vegan dinner. Oh wait, I always do that! The best part of lunch was my broccoli soup:
No-Cream Cream of Broccoli Soup. Yes, it’s green and therefore doesn’t look so appealing. But looks can be misleading. Didn’t you ever watch Beauty and the Beast?
No-Cream Cream of Broccoli Soup
- 2 packages mushrooms, such as baby bellas (8 oz packages)
- 2 packages broccoli (500 grams raw broccoli)
- 2 cups broth, such as Pacific mushroom broth
- 2 tbsp minced garlic
- 2 tsp salt, or to taste
- Some of the broccoli soaking liquid – I use about 3/4 cup, but if you want your soup even thicker, you can add less
- 1 cup milk of choice – for creamier soup, you can switch the amounts of broth and milk
- Add 2 tbsp oil or buttery spread if you’re not a fan of fat-free soup
Along with the soup, I had leftover stir-fried veggies cooked up with bbq sauce, over spinach, and a new favorite English muffin: Rudi’s spelt English muffins. These muffins have a bit of a sourdough-like flavor, but they’re soft and crumbly. I cut one in half, added vegan butter, then toasted that baby (but not enough for the muffin to lose its softness). The bread and butter of comfort.
Then I used the “Soggy Muffin” trick. This one’s a bit embarrassing, but I swear it’s delicious: Cut the muffin in 1/2 and spread on your vegan butter. Right before eating, pour a little water over the muffin (I don’t even usually bother toasting it) until it’s soggy. Then microwave for 45-ish seconds, sprinkle with a little bit of salt, and eat. The muffin will be all mushy and gooey, which is exactly how I like them!
Dessert!
I like broccoli any way but raw, too. It’s probably my favorite veggie. And English muffins are so awesome! Your meal looks wonderful!
As usual, your meal looks superb! I hope my kids will make such healthy choices when they’re out on their own. And I, too, am in love with broccoli in almost any form. It’s one of my favorite veggies.
Yes, I do call it “trees” to get the kids on board. But I don’t force it upon them, and yet they all love it too!
I think green foods are fun and exciting! Green smoothies make me so happy, a lot in part due to that fabulous kermit color! 🙂
Oh me too, me too! And the other day we had HOT PINK smoothies (with beets)!
I did not know that! 🙂 Amazing looking meal!
I think a comfort food would be “healthy” macaroni and cheese- I love cheese
I tried to make a raw cream of broccoli soup the other day. Gross. and I LOVE raw soups. I need my broccoli cooked and buttery too! I’ll be making your version as soon as I get my hands on some shrooms.
My comfort foods are brown rice pasta w/ marinara and cashew parmesan and hemp bagels w/ tofu cream cheese. My carbs get a lot of huggin’ 🙂 I might have to add zucchini muffins topped with chocolate almond butter to the list because I’ve been having that for bfast for 3 days now and can’t get enough of it!
LOLOLOL I read that too fast and thought it said “raw ice cream of broccoli” as in broccoli ice cream!
maybe chocolate broccoli ice cream! 😉
have you tried adding nutritional yeast to the soup? I’m going to make this tonight but want to try a broccoli “cheese” soup
I haven’t. But now that YOU mentioned it, I’m going to have to try it too! Please tell me what you think, if you try it first!!
Oooooh, the melties sound SO good. But that goes without saying – coconut is one of my top 5 fave foods. I was also just reading your recipe for a single cupcake – amazing idea! Just this past Sunday I found myself craving cake and frosting like no other, but didn’t want to make a whole cake. I thought of halving a cupcake recipe so I’d at least make less than a full batch, but it didn’t quite occur to me to reduce the proportions down to a single serving! That’s why I have you. 🙂
Oooh we share a top favorite food! Is another of your favorite foods chocolate, perchance? ‘Cause then we’d share two! 🙂
Love you, Diana!
Oh, man. I had no idea it was world vegan day. I’m vegan, but I’m a pastry cook at a decidedly omnivorous restaurant, and I “celebrated” by making a spice cake…with lard. Not even vegetarian. Oops 🙁
As for comfort foods?
Cafe au lait with soymilk. So good.
Oh man, now I have a hankering for an English Muffin. Toasted, naturally :). You can come cook for me anytime, girl! 🙂
Katie, I just have to tell you that your photos are lookin stellar, missy! Better than stellar, in fact: Super stellar :). But maybe that’s just cuz it’s broccoli and yummy vegan food you’re photo-ing? 😉 Can’t make vegan food look ugly! Well, I guess yeah you can, but you know what I mean! 🙂
I have a similar soup that I make, called Mushroom- Thai soup. It’s oh- so- yummy, but the looks aren’t the prettiest. Let’s just say it’s brown, but really, really yummy and easy. That’s what I’m all for: yum, healthy and easy 🙂
By the way, you totally inspired me yesterday with your coconut melties. However, I didn’t have any molds, so I made them into balls– coconut, PB, chocolate, for that matter. My balls I made were a bit generous on the size. And let’s just say I ate them ALL 🙂