Cream of Celery Soup

[I Love Bimby!]

Thanks Julie 

[Thermomixer]

Thanks JulieO - nice recipe indeed. Ta

[gertbysea]

Love it and the soup will become a favourite.

Gretchen

[Rogizoja]

Looks tasty - just a couple of suggestions.  Either make the milk sauce before the soup so you don't have to stand there stirring the roux (that's what TMX is there for!) or replace it with about 40 gm rice flour (grind in TMX before starting soup) and then when soup has finished cooking, add a splash of cream for extra richness and blitz 1 min at speed 10. Added advantage is less fat (no butter).

[JulieO]

I made the milk sauce in the microwave while the soup was cooking. 

[achookwoman]

All good suggestions,  as long as the end result is the same.

[meganjane]

Chookie, I call this one "Cream of Any Green Vegetable Soup". Broccoli, Asparagus, Leek, all would be good. Thanks!

[achookwoman]

Meaganjane,  you are absolutely right,  can't wait until asparagus is in season again,  have a lot of peppery land cress, (like water cress) at the moment.   Might give it a go.  Thanks for that.

[judydawn]

I had this at our football club for starters today and it had the addition of blue cheese.  Now, not being a blue cheese eater (another thing I have never tried because of the look and smell of it) I was lucky enough to be given a little sample by the waitress who recommended it.  After a taste, I then ordered it - delicious.

[JulieO]

it had the addition of blue cheese.  Now, not being a blue cheese eater (another thing I have never tried because of the look and smell of it)

Me either Judy, but I've heard how blue cheese sauce is supposed to be sooo nice, especially drizzled over a good steak, so I've decided to try making it in a few days. 

If I like the flavour I will keep in mind your suggestion of adding some of the cheese to this soup the next time I make it. 

[achookwoman]

A small dob of blue on a pizza is very nice.

[Thermomixer]

Sorry JD - I love blue cheese and find it hard to understand why others don't - but it would be good with the soup for sure.  Helps reduce the "bite"

[Depome]

I have a 9 year old and a 5 year old who HATE blue cheese, as does their father, but they all LOVE it in my broccoli soup/pasta sauce. Broccoli sauces are a little bland, even with a nice stock in them, but blue cheese adds a little bite. It's like adding a pinch of chlli powder to a tomato pasta sauce. You get some of the flavour of the blue cheese, but none of the excess that it oozes normally!

[Nay-nay]

Well I just wanted to do this all in the one pot and thought I would try to but chickened out at the last minute- I really wanted it to turn out. Would it thicken putting the milk and flour in at the end??? I haven't cooked a white sauce on the stove in a year!  - it wasn't hard and soup was made in quick time. Everyone loved it - Thanks! 

[achookwoman]

Nay-nay,  glad you liked the soup.  I think that the texture may be a bit different when you make the roux on the stove,  rather than the white sauce as in the EDC book with every thing in together.  Might try it though,  thanks for the feed back.