~Got Broccoli? (Stalks that is?)

I was so frustrated after buying my produce on Sunday...I buy organic produce for us and fully enjoy the better flavour, quality and healthy (read no chemicals) on them and am totally fine with the higher cost. Quite honestly though the cost difference is negligible usually...anyhow I digress!

This week I was frustrated because the only organic broccoli they had was full heads with enormous stalks on them. I hate paying for stalk on produce when I know they'll end up thrown out. I've seen people break them off at the store but I think that is rude. We eat a lot of broccoli and were out so I needed to get it...fast forward to last night. I'm making supper and cutting up some broccoli to steam. I, as expected, cut off the stalks and break up the crown. I realized that I had probably paid for more stalk then crown. Urrrgghh!

So I carried on with supper, slightly steaming mad over it... Then I had an idea. I'm counting calories right now and was really short on what I should be eating for the day so I was trying to think of something else to eat. I settled on...broccoli stalk soup!

I took the stalks and trimmed off the ugly and tough bits and then cut it into slivers. I put it in a pot with about 5 thinly sliced baby carrots and a couple cups of chicken stock and let it simmer until the veggies were soft. Then I took the potato masher and smooshed the veggies added some pepper and a quarter cup of milk. I thickened it with cornstarch. It was delicious!!!!


I preferred this over regular broccoli soup made with broccoli heads, it was very mild flavoured.

So a frustrating situation resulted in a yummy new recipe...I may be TRYING to buy broccoli stalks from now on!

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