Once a month I will share a recipe, a post about cooking or one about gardening. On a previous blog I posted around 30 of our family’s favorite recipes, so they would be archived and available for use. I won’t repeat those recipes on this blog, so here is a link to them if you are interested.

For this month I want to share a cooking tip I learned a few years back about homemade soup. I imagine most of you already know this, but for the few that might not it can really make a difference. After your homemade soup is fully cooked choose a can of cream soup that most closely parallels the type or flavor of your soup. Add the cream soup to a blender, throw in some shredded or cubed cheese and then fill the remainder with ladles of the soup you have just cooked. Blend it and then pour the contents into your homemade soup to make a thicker, cheesy version. I have also added a leftover diced baked potato or a package of instant potatoes to the blender ingredients.

Bon Appétit!