Creamy Broccoli Soup with Cheddar
and Chive Toast
Grilled Bacon and Smoked Gouda Sandwiches
Tonight’s drink is a Beanblossom Strawberry
Hard Cider from Oliver Winery in
Bloomington, Ind. My sister went to school in Bloomington, so she brought over
this bottle that she found. When I drink beer, I don’t always like it when it’s
too sweet, but when I drink wine, I like to lean on the sweet side. This drink
was a perfect blend of that, sweet but not too sweet, and the strawberry wasn’t
overpowering. I would really like to try the other ciders that the Winery
offers.
This was a very easy meal to make, and a very tasty one at
that. There were a few changes/substitutions, though.
Obviously, no onion. And the bacon wasn’t used correctly.
Since I didn’t read the recipe ahead of time, I didn’t know that the bacon was
for the toast, which I wasn’t making (more on that later). I bought it, I
chopped it, I cooked it…then I got to the part of the recipe where I was
supposed to add it to the cheese for the toast. Since I wasn’t making the
toast, I dumped the bacon into the soup. No harm there, right? Right.
No hot sauce. See last
week’s entry for the reason.
Whenever I eat soup, I love a sandwich with it, usually a
grilled cheese. So I thought I’d do something fancy this time. Grilled smoked
gouda and bacon sandwiches. Yeah, sounds awesome, right? Right.
So this was a crazy good dinner. The soup was enhanced by
the bacon, and I sprinkled a bit of cheddar on it since I had a bag of it that
wasn’t used for the toast. Combined with the amazingly awesome grilled cheese
sandwiches, this was an unbeatable winter meal.
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