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!
That soup looks so good on this chilly day! Have you ever tried the Ezekiel english muffins? They are my favorite hands down!
I haven’t. I guess I should! LOL as if I needed an excuse to try a new product! 😉
Aw, I wish I had known about World Vegan Day! At least my lunch was vegan yesterday.
I’ll eat broccoli any way but raw too. That soup sounds delicious! Comfort food…let’s see, banana oatmeal, peanut butter, lattes and my mom’s mexican beans and rice for sure.
Mmmm I love English Muffins!
Katie, I love you! And I was aware of World Vegan Day yesterday and also celebrated by eating a completely vegan breakfast lunch and dinner as well as sharing my dinner and some delicious banana walnut and carob chip cookies with my boyfriend and floor. 🙂 I felt like I accomplished the celebrating part of World Vegan Day. 🙂 I’m excited that such holidays exist. Did you also know that National Chocolate Day was… *looks at her calendar for the most highlighted and exclamation-pointed day in her planner last week*… the 28th of October?!?!?! Such a wonderful holiday, I must say!
Keep up the vegan-y goodness! That soup and meal looks delicious!!!!! 😀
Aly
World Chocolate Day? There’s a World Chocolate Day? Woah, I wish I’d have known. Oh well, I’ll just have to celebrate extra hard next year ;).
Yuppp. Extra hard sounds like a good way to do it!! 🙂 I’m planning on going all out for National Chocolate Day!! 🙂 It’s the most wonderful time of the year, ya know? ;D
I make oatmeal with vanilla soymilk and add bananas, Justin’s Chocolate Peanutbutter and Coconut Butter on top! It’s amazing!
Yup, that sounds like you’ve got all my favorite foods in there. Well, you might want to think about adding some broccoli. What’cha think? Do-able? Haha no, please don’t ;).
I hate raw broccoli, too! Cooked broccoli, on the other hand, is a fav of mine! When my sister was 6 she even said broccoli was her favorite food!
My favorite comfort food is peanut butter ontop of a 100% dark chocolate bar 🙂
That soup looks delicious – never had broccoli soup. Favourite comfort foods – Banana Brulee Porridge, Bean Casserole and dumplings. 🙂
I love broccoli any way, even raw. My favorite way to eat though is roasted. Some of my comfort foods are oatmeal, peanut butter, and pasta.
I didn’t do anything interesting in honor of World Vegan Day, unless you count writing a 10+ page lab report interesting.
LOL no, that DEFINITELY doesn’t sound interesting to me 😉 ;).
This is too ironic! I just bought my fave sprouted english muffins this week as a treat (they are darn expensive!). Any kind of warm carb is comfort food for me!
Spelt English Muffins are the best!
Great looking soup too!