If I had opened our vegetable box as a kid, and seen cauliflower looking right back at me- I may well have wept a little.
At the very least I probably would have silently gagged.
Not now though. Now, when I see a little cauliflower peeking from a corner, in the Foodconnect box I do a little happy dance. I can’t get enough of it. Teamed up with some leek and potatoes also from the box, (and locally grown) you have yourself an easy peasy seasonal dinner.
Cauliflower, Leek and Potato Soup
one chopped large leek
3 chopped large potatoes
half a head of a large cauliflower
1 vegetable stock cube
about 500mls water
salt and pepper to taste
Saute leeks in a couple of good slugs of olive oil, then the rest of the ingredients and cook until soft. Then blitz, with a hand held mixer.
Serve with pangritata and capsicum chilli sauce.
(Remarkably similar to last years cauliflower and potato soup…that’s seasonal eating for you!)
cityhippyfarmgirl 
It’s funny how you start to love vegetables as you get older! Love seasonal cooking
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Cauliflower makes such a silky, smooth soup- so yummy indeed!
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I’d happily eat cauliflower every night of the week at the moment…until a new favourite/season comes along anyway.
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I love the addition of cauliflower to potato leek soup. I’ll have to try that this autumn!
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perfect brydie..that’s my sort of food too..x
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I think we have similar taste buds Jane. I’d quite happily schnaffle up every thing you put up 🙂
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Lovely eating Brydie! I love thick soups like this!
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I love cauliflower and a soup is a great way to enjoy it Brydie 🙂
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I’m the same – as a child, cauliflower was close to evil, that little bit worse than the equally dreaded broccoli. Now I am obsessed with broccoli and find cauliflower so versatile. It’s probably good that some things change 🙂
Gorgeous soup!
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Eggplant and mushrooms were also up there for me Kari…all among my absolute favourites now, crazy huh.
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I’ve always loved things like cauliflower and even broccoli in chowder-type soups; it seems to lift their flavour and texture somehow. This one sounds so delicious and warming! I think I’d like it. 🙂
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cauliflower seems one of my favourite vegies lately – so many ways to eat it
BTW – I have a first photo on my blog of my sourdough bread in my In My Kitchen post – will let you know when I post more about it – have my second loaf underway!
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I must have been a strange child because I always liked cauliflower. I love leek and cauliflower soup and this is a wonderful frugal meal xx
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I’ve been a cauli lover from way back. Have you ever seen The Darling Buds of May? (with a very young Catherine Zeta Jones). One of the twins (either Zinnia or Petunia) piped up when asked what vegetables she wanted with dinner “cauliflower cheese and baked beans.” It’s always stuck in my mind, because cauliflower cheese would have been my first pick too. Now I like it in curries, in Jamie Oliver’s cauliflower risotto and in soups. It’s just a great veg!
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Thank you that’s really kind 🙂
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So glad to hear you’re not ‘gagging’ at the humble old cauli any more – really is a good old fashioned veggie and I love it.
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I love anything with cauliflower! What a delicious soup you have made! Seasonal eating is the only way.
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Beautiful recipe… such a gorgeous way to use the abundance of cauliflower that we have at the moment! I love the addition of the pangritata and the capsicum sauce also. Yum! Trying this soon xx
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Lovely and simple. We’ve had a cauliflower phase in this house with cauliflower soups and cauliflower gratins. Cravings?:)
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