Sharper than a serpent's tooth...*

Soup, how I love you. You let me be known to my friends as a decent cook, you don't cost the earth, you are healthy, you are forgiving, and, importantly, you are warm. So you can imagine my distress when a friend told me that my daughter, upon being offered soup, said, "Oh, God, no more soup." I mean what kind of rotten kid would not be grateful to have a nutritious, delicious, and did I mention, warm, meal of soup? I mean yes, I think last week she had soup in her lunch 3 times and, it's possible, 3 times for dinner, but they were different soups! Today's was a curried roast cauliflower that was awesome, but the beast boycotted (it was a mistake to give her that option, yes?) and went with a tofu-sweet potato stir fry.

Here's the soup recipe (with thanks and apologies to Martha Stewart):

Cut 2 heads of cauliflower into medium sized florets, mix with a pinch of salt and a teaspoon or 2 of vegetable oil

Put cauliflower on a baking sheet and roast in a 450 degree oven for 20-30 minutes, until they start to get brown

Cut 2 onions, and saute them in a tablespoon or so of butter or oil until they are translucent

Add a few teaspoons of curry powder; continue to saute

Add roasted cauliflower

Add 4-5 cups of vegetable broth

Let cook for a little bit- 10 minutes, maybe

Puree in a blender

Salt to your liking

Voila!

And let it be said that there are 5 ingredients in here, and when I ventured into Aldi's this week (it was only my second time- kind of a weird place, and a little depressing, BUT...) cauliflower was only .89 a head. I decided that made it OK to eat 5 bowls.


*...it is to have a thankless child. Oh how I hated to have my father throw this at me, and how I swore never to quote Shakespeare to my (then unimagined) child, but it has a certain ring to it, you know?