Back into the swing of things! Soup Recipes

So I'm back from my tour which was a once in a lifetime experience for my family. We had talked about  doing a trip around Australia for years and to finally do it was awesome!
However now I'm back into exhausting routine of doing the school run and household chores -ugghh!!! But on the upside I can get back into my exercise (which was sadly neglected), make our food from scratch (which was difficult to do out of a camper trailer), re-establish my veggie garden and get back into my research which is ofcourse my passion.
So I kinda feel like I starting over and thought this would be a golden opportunity for my to share what I'm doing, how to go about it and hopefully inspire you to make some healthy sustainable changes.
In the upcoming blogs I'll help you establish a veggie garden, provide you with simple recipes and techniques to improve you and your family's health. I'll also be talking alot about alkalinity and gut health as it's sparking my passion at the moment (well more than before).
So to start us off I'm sharing my two favourite soup recipes, as it's winter here in Australia and I LOVE SOUP!!!
My purpose is to wean you off adding cream and show you how delicious and healthier it is to use nut stock (even if you hate nuts, I promise I'll win you over!)
And those of you with kids with nut allegies, I encourage you to have them tested with sulphite free nuts. Double blind studies are showing that more children react to the sulphite preservative than the nut itself.

Warning, I have 4 kids and have lost the ability to cook in anything other than bulk, so halve the quanties, if necessary.......or you could freeze portions for lunch.

Broccoli Soup
4 broccoli heads
2 large brown onions
3/4 cup cashews or almonds (cashews taste better, but almonds are healthier, they also need soaking and deskining)
2 cups filtered water for stock
Extra filtered water
Salt & pepper to taste
2T oil, I use grapeseed, avocado or macadamia, but avocado is my favourite for this recipe.
Optional: Add a bunch of kale, it's a super food and easily hidden here - unless it's disguised my kids won't eat it!

Blend nuts and water for about 5 mins until smooth. While this is going sautee the onions (and kale) a little, add the broccoli and sweat it down for a few minutes.
Add nut stock and enough water to cover broccoli. I use about a teaspoon of rocksalt in the pot and after I've served the kids, I add a bit more to mine. (remember babies have 50,000 more taste buds than adults and this gradually depletes with age - they are supertasters so don't over saturated their sense of taste).

Simmer on a low heat for about an hour.
Blend and serve.
You can make a thick nut cream with 1/2 cup of nuts and 1/2 cup of water blended throroughly for garnish if you fancy.

Cauliflower Soup
2 cauliflower heads
2 large brown onions
1 clove garlic
2 apples
3/4 cup cashews (experiment with other nuts)
2 cups filtered water for stock
extra water
2T oil
Salt & pepper to taste
optional 1/2 t cinnamon and dash of cardamon

Same procedure as the broccoli but make sure the apples go in with the onions.



These soups are super cheap to feed the family, couple with some homemade bread - Yum!
Younger kids, or fussy older ones, can have it stirred though pasta or rice. But if you establish soup early on, as an extension of baby food, you should get less resistance.

Try nut stock with your old favourite such as pumpkin, tomato and potato & leek.



Feel free to post your favourite soup recipes.

Until next time
Kylie x

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