Monday, February 5, 2018

Creamy Vegetable Rice Soup: Blog With Friends Winter Activities

Today’s post is the next in our series of Blog With Friends theme collaborations. Each month a group  of bloggers get together and each publish a project based on a theme. What I love about this partnership is that it’s not bloggers with similar interests or strengths but a diverse group coming up with a variety of posts. In any given month we may have a recipe, sewing tutorial, crafts projects, book review and/or a technology post all related to the theme of the month.


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This month's theme is Winter Activities.

There will be individual project pictures and links to what everyone else has to offer at the end of my post, but here’s a peek at what we all came up with:

Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Winter Activities | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com


I made Creamy Vegetable Rice Soup.



Creamy Vegetable Rice Soup is a cold weather staple. This hearty soup is made with fresh vegetables and brown rice, perfect for a warming winter lunch or dinner. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #soup

Creamy Vegetable Rice Soup
Creamy Vegetable Rice Soup is a cold weather staple. This hearty soup is made with fresh vegetables and brown rice, perfect for a warming winter lunch or dinner. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #soup


It probably doesn't surprise you that a cold winter day finds me in the kitchen. When we have days like today, ice on the streets, wind whipping, snow falling, I tend to "nest". I think it's the desire to feel cocooned in my home. First up is always a fire in the fireplace. Clothes are always warm, loose and comfortable. And dinner is more than likely a soup or stew. 

It's sort of a game with me, on these days, to work out a new recipe. I have to go with whatever ingredients are in the house as I'm certainly not going shopping. The win is when the result is one of those hearty meals that warm you from the inside out. I always have ciabatta rolls or a french loaf on hand, crusty bread is the perfect side to a bowl of hot soup.

Using what I had on hand, I made this soup with frozen chopped onions, broccoli florets, carrots, and a package of cauliflower florets.

Creamy Vegetable Rice Soup is a cold weather staple. This hearty soup is made with fresh vegetables and brown rice, perfect for a warming winter lunch or dinner. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #soup


Cook the vegetables in the broth until tender. I made brown rice and set it aside while the vegetables were softening.

Creamy Vegetable Rice Soup is a cold weather staple. This hearty soup is made with fresh vegetables and brown rice, perfect for a warming winter lunch or dinner. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #soup

Creamy Vegetable Rice Soup is a cold weather staple. This hearty soup is made with fresh vegetables and brown rice, perfect for a warming winter lunch or dinner. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #soup

I wish I could say that I have an immersion blender but I don't so I had to use the standing blender. 

Creamy Vegetable Rice Soup is a cold weather staple. This hearty soup is made with fresh vegetables and brown rice, perfect for a warming winter lunch or dinner. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #soup

Creamy Vegetable Rice Soup is a cold weather staple. This hearty soup is made with fresh vegetables and brown rice, perfect for a warming winter lunch or dinner. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #soup


Return the blended vegetables to the pot, add the evaporated milk and rice, heat and serve. 

Creamy Vegetable Rice Soup is a cold weather staple. This hearty soup is made with fresh vegetables and brown rice, perfect for a warming winter lunch or dinner. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #soup


I like to add a little extra shredded sharp cheddar as a garnish.
Creamy Vegetable Rice Soup is a cold weather staple. This hearty soup is made with fresh vegetables and brown rice, perfect for a warming winter lunch or dinner. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #soup




As always, any time you make one of my recipes, feel free to post a picture of it to my Baking In A Tornado Facebook Page. I'd love to see it!


Be sure to visit all of this month's other Blog With Friends projects:

Jules of The Bergham Chronicles shares Inside Activities for Winter Days
Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Winter Activities | Inside Activities for Winter Days by Jules of The Bergham Chronicles | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com


Dawn of Spatulas on Parade shares the recipe for her Chocolate Walnut Gooey Snowflake Cake.
Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Winter Activities | Chocolate Walnut Gooey Snowflake Cake by Dawn of Spatulas on Parade | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com

Lydia of Cluttered Genius shares how to make a DIY (under $20) Window Garden.
Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Winter Activities | DIY (under $20) Window Garden by Lydia of Cluttered Genius | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com

Melissa of My Heartfelt Sentiments shares Papercrafting, a Great Excuse to Stay Indoors. 
Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Winter Activities | Papercrafting, a Great Excuse to Stay Indoors by Melissa of My Heartfelt Sentiments | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com


Rabia of The Lieber Family Blog shares her Quilted Tied Fleece Blanket DIY.
Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Winter Activities | XX by XX of XX | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com

Be sure to stop by again next month for more theme based projects.

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Creamy Vegetable Rice Soup
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Ingredients:
1/2 stick butter
1/2 large onion, chopped
1/4 cup flour
3 cups vegetable stock
2 TBSP cooking sherry
1 1/2 carrots, peeled and chopped
1 1/2 cups broccoli florets, chopped
1 cup cauliflower florets, chopped 
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp caribbean jerk seasoning
1/4 tsp dried tarragon
dash of cayenne pepper
1 can (12 oz) evaporated milk
1/2 cup heavy cream
3/4 cup cooked brown rice
1/2 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
OPT: additional cheese for garnish

Directions:
*In a large pot, melt the butter over medium heat. Add the onion and saute until soft. Whisk in the flour and continue whisking for 1 minute. 
*Add the vegetable broth, sherry, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, salt, pepper and seasonings to the pot. Raise the heat to high, bring to a boil, lower the heat and simmer for about 10 - 15 minutes until the vegetables are soft.
*Carefully pour the soup into a blender and blend until smooth. Return to the pot. Add the evaporated milk, cream, 1/2 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese and rice. Cook over medium heat until hot. 
*OPT: garnish with additional cheese for serving.

20 comments:

  1. I am so making this, this week. Perfect for the cold days of Winter.

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  2. This looks delish! I'm a soup lover.......for the warm comforting taste, but also for the value. I've always got my eye open for new recipes and this one looks fabulous!

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    1. I'm a soup lover too, it's a perfect cold weather meal. Really hope you try this one.

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  3. I love that you had all these ingredients in your home just waiting to be used! Making a nice warm soup or stew is a perfect winter activity.

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    1. I agree. I love a hot thick soup on a cold winter night.

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  4. Thanks, Karen. It's been hot in LA but that won't keep me from loving your soup.

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    1. I am SO looking forward to hot weather, I'd even settle for a bordering on warm at this point.

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  5. That looks absolutely delicious! I want on of those immersion blenders myself. Soup on a cold day is a must...also the warm comfy clothes and a fire.

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    1. Yes, the trifecta, warm soup, comfy clothes and a roaring fire.

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  6. I h ave never had a rice soup, never even heard of rice soup but I am not much of a soup person

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    1. It's not a rice soup, it's a vegetable soup with rice in it. Like chicken soup sometimes has rice in it. It thickens the soup and makes it more hearty. You should try it.

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  7. Leaving out the carrots, but so making this over the weekend!

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    1. If you can't have carrots, leave them out. But if it's about taste, they just add a little sweetness, there's no carrot flavor.

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  8. Ah, this sounds absolutely perfect for a cold day! I don't make soup enough! Thank you for this.

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    1. Love soup on a cold winter day, and although you're south, you've had your share of cold and snow this winter too.

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  9. The soups sounds so hearty and delicious, Karen! Will have to make it as soon as possible.

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  10. The soup sounds delicious and filling. I'd leave out the rice since I'm trying to stay away from carbs but otherwise yummy.

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    1. It's really thick with the rice, it would be fine without it.

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