#648 BROCCOLI CHEESE SOUP BLACK EYED PEA RESTAURANT’S RECIPE

I am sharing a wonderful, delicious soup recipe that I got out of the Houston Chronicle several years ago. If you love cheese soup, and Broccoli……try this recipe out!
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Howdy y’all and welcome back to Apron Strings um it’s been a day or two hasn’t it it’s just a lot of stuff still going on my uh workers still haven’t finished everything and it’s hard for me to film with people in the house with me in and

Out and I still don’t have my strength back from the flu or whatever it was I had I never spend my time sitting around looking at a magazine or looking on my iPad unless it’s bedtime and I haven’t had any energy and I apologize but there’s nothing I can do about it I

Am a whole lot better I don’t have the congestion the cough and all of that I just don’t have any get up and go it just got up and went but today I’m going to make a pot of broccoli cheese soup and I did this a long time ago and y’all

Might have watched the video but just so I can be in the kitchen with you and some of you new wonderful subscribers may not have seen the uh process there used to be a restaurant at Umble called The blackeyed Pea and my favorite thing to get down there was their squash

Casserole which I make and their broccoli cheese soup and this is their recipe that came out in the Houston Chronicle and I cut it out many years ago and laminated it now what I’m going to do today is double it so when y’all get the recipe card at the end of the video

Um it’ll be for half as much but we’re going to double it because I’m going to feed the guys that are here the room that was my daughter’s bedroom that I took in for a sewing room since I added the sewing room on the back closed in the screen porch they’re painting that

Room today and putting can lights instead of the fluorescents that we had in the ceiling so they’re getting it uh done today so I’m going to feed it’s cold here so I’m going to it’s going to get colder it’s going to be down in the

20s at Night by the end of the week hope it don’t repeat February 2 years ago but it’s going to be cold so anyway we’re going to have soup today so I’m going to make twice the recipe of the broccoli cheese soup and it calls for um so I’m using

Four cups of water and four cups of half in half and I’m going to get that good and hot because I’m not doing it in a double boiler you know I do everything pie fillings and all in the microwave don’t have to worry about it scorching

So I’m going to get this hot and I’m going to add my cornstarch slurry to it and thicken it and then I’ll add the cheese in there and the salt and pepper and all when the cheese is melted We’ll add the broccoli and we’ll have our soup

About ready to go so I’m going to get I’ve already measured out four cups of water and uh four cups of half and half and I’m going to get that really good and hot so that it’ll thicken when I put the corn starch in it and then once that

Thickens I’m going to cut my cheese up and put it in there and I think it’s salt and pepper and I’ll have to look at the recipe and see I’m sure I’m going to add some onion and garlic powder and then at last We’ll add our broccoli to

It but I’m going to get this hot in the microwave and we’ll go on with the recipe here in a minute I’ve got my water here and my uh cornstarch and it’s a half a cup of each but of course I doubled it and when you first start stirring it

It’s like it’s not going to mix if you hadn’t used it before but just keep working with it and stirring it and it’ll all dissolve and you’ll just have a slurry to put in to thicken and I like using corn starch um if you’re doing something then you want a more clear

Broth use cornstarch flour makes it uh cloudy creamy looking and corn starch dissolves better uh in the hot put it in the hot and it doesn’t take it long till it’s thickened and ready to go this is thick because I I don’t have quite as much water as it

Called for cuz I would rather have more of my half and half flavor in there it’s about done yeah it’s just thick it’s not lumpy so see see it’s it’s dissolved good so as soon as this gets hot enough we’ll put it in there and stir it and I’ll let

Y’all watch me do that and uh it’ll thicken that milk and we’ll put in the salt and pepper and get our cheese in there it doesn’t doesn’t take long to bring it together and it feeds people and it makes them feel good and happy cuz it got good soup

To eat you can add more broccoli than it calls for I don’t have enough broccoli to double it but I’m just going to put it in there anyway costs for a pound and a half so that would be 3 lb well I only have 2 lb but I’m going to use that and

Play like I had plenty and we’re going to enjoy it so the microwave is dinging at me so let me see if it’s hot and if it is we’ll be putting the cornstarch in my liquid is’t quite hot enough yet to put the corn Storch in but I’m going to I’ve already

Done half of it I’m going to go ahead and cut up the rest of the velv y’all I have a recipe for making homemade Vita and I’m going to try it because I know some of y’all can’t get Vita where you live and I make a lot of

Recipes that call for it and the homemade version is made with uh American cheese so I think everybody can get the just plain American cheese maybe but I usually divide this in three or four pieces and then cut it in little little hump to put it in there that way it melts

Quicker that’s rocket science y’all rocket science two years ago when it got so cold in February Troy was in the hospital in Houston and I had to keep the water pipes dripping and and my neighbors came and helped me wrap pipes we only had one pipe to

Burst and so I told them I said y’all I don’t know what’s done and what’s not done and I don’t know what to do and what not to do and uh the neighbor that came and helped me wrap last year or two years ago I

Just happen to run into him in town he said he’d come over and help me so I guess he’ll come one day this week and we’ll wrap the I know where the water hydrant are but I don’t know if they’re all wrapped or not we got to check them

So anyway let me get the the thickener over there in the the milk Pro uh stuff milk and water and I’ve got onion powder I went ahead and added a tablespoon of onion powder and a teaspoon of garlic powder you knew I would and then the the

Salt and pepper that it calls for in the recipe and of course I’m doubling so I’m going to get the thickener in and get that thick it and then add the cheese to it then we’ll put the broccoli in okay it’s hot enough that I can go ahead and add my slurry Okay close it back up I love my roll out microwave and I’m going to set it for about 2 minutes and then we’ll check it yeah that’s thickening real good I’m going to let it thicken just a little bit more I’m going to go ahead and add in the salt and pepper

Be easier to stir it into this than when the cheese gets in get it all Incorporated real good okay let me cook it another minute or two and uh be back shortly okay let me open it up yeah you have to remember that your cheese is salty so if you taste of your

Um qu sauce and it doesn’t taste salty enough the cheese has quite a bit of salt in it so it’s going to add some salt to your recipe put me a spoon rest down right there I have to wipe under it but at least all the cheese will all be in

Here y’all this soup is so good and it’s sure going to taste good to me today while it’s cold outside I got the fireplace going I’m trying we have blowers on the fireplace it was a unit that we put in when we built the house and I’m trying to use the

Fireplace instead of the heat for the cut down on the electricity okay I’m going to do that for 3 minutes and then we’ll come back and stir it okay it got it’s about melted so I’m just stirring it till it’s all Blended well then I’ll add in the broccoli and this will be

Ready didn’t that look yummy I think it’s all pretty well melted I’m going to go ahe and put the broccoli in it and let it heat a little bit more okay I got my broccoli in and I took my Snips and snipped it some it’ll it’ll come

Apart but I didn’t have as much as it called for so I like to try to stretch it I may have to cut it some more here directly I’m going to let it heat up real good and then we’ll do a taste test on

It hey y’all I’ve got a big old Bowl big old bowl of broccoli cheese soup ready and I’m fixing to call the guys in here to eat I’ve got I didn’t make cornbread I’ve got crackers on the table and they’re U they’re good napkin you know those paper towels kind

Bounty and their spoons waiting on them and the te’s made and they’re ready to uh come and eat I found the neatest little thing I don’t know if I showed y’all let me get it and show you especially when uh the workers have been here I go through a lot of glasses

And I use the red plastic throwaways but I found this little thing on Amazon your cups fit in here your pen to write their name on their cup is to the side and it says Mark your cup and drink up and this is neat to have on the counter when

You’re going to have a lot of company it keeps it organized and they mark their cup and fix their tea so they’ll have to fix their tea my grandson got me a Yeti ice bucket for Christmas and of course it’s red Little Richard surprised me and

U so I’ve got it full of ice waiting on them and then Lauren came in and she had found me a red Stanley cup shouldn’t have spent that money but they did but I love it of course it’s red that makes me love it but U I’m enjoying having that

Ice bucket in here because I it keeps the ice and I can go out to the ice machine and feel it and last all day long so their ice and tea is waiting and their cups are going to be waiting and they can get ready to eat right here in

A minute I had to get me a taste of this soup instead of waiting on them guys to get here they’re back there they’re putting can lights in the ceiling instead of Troy had just put those rectangle fluorescent lights around in there where it would be bright enough

For me to sew so they took those down and they’re putting the can lights in it’s going to look a lot nicer it’s all so messy so I guess they’re going to try to finish all that before they come in here maybe they’ll dust off before they get

Here cuz it got ceiling junk on them I love this soup man love it it’s wonderful y’all need to make you some it’ll warm your soul on a cold day I really am going to try to get back in the groove I tell y’all this every

Time I hope you believe in me and know that I’m really trying um I need to because I need to make money and I need to because I need my friends y’all have been so sweet to email me and check on me I got a bunch

Of Christmas cards I I thank y’all so much for thinking about me and the sweet words that you wrote in them meant a whole lot to me Christmas was different life is different but I’m looking forward to things getting better in 2024 I know if I do my part the good

Lord will do his so I’m going to try to just get up and walk and go and do and get back to normal the main thing I’ve had to battle with since that week before Christmas is I haven’t felt well first I had covid and then I got whatever that

Was I’m assuming it was the flu um it’s just left me very lethargic and no energy but as far as fever coughing headaches all that’s gone and I’m thankful so maybe I’ll see y’all again this week uh with something really good a friend text me a wonderful new recipe

And I want to get it made cuz I want to eat some of it so hopefully that’ll be in the next couple of days I’ll have that up for you and then I’ll tell you who gave me the recipe y’all have a wonderful day and if you wor it’s going

To be cold take care of your pipes and get you some blankets ready to wrap up and get wood on your porch for your fireplace if you got one get ready to just hunker down and enjoy the cool spell it won’t last long here they’re

Saying a week or two it’s a long time in Texas for it to be down in the 20s at night that’s very unusual for us now I haven’t even put my plants up yet this year because they’re on the south side of the house on the front porch and it’s

Gotten down to 31 and it hadn’t hurt them they’re just as pretty and green as they’ve ever been but I will have to bring them in this time so I’ll be doing that toward the end of the week and that front porch is going to look bare and

Naked but that’s okay my plants to be safe y’all take care of yourself make time for your family put your phones aside make some memories I’m so thankful that Troy and I would sit down at the dinner table together and and visit we didn’t have phones there to

Distract us we talked and we shared and uh that’s how I like for it to be and that’s how y’all need to do you need to make some memories cuz you don’t ever know when that’s the last memory you’ll get to make so put your phones up look

People in the eye talk to them teach those young ons some social skills how to how to interact and mingle with people and visit it’s the only way you’re going to know anything about what’s going on in their world cuz they’re not very likely to text you something so try to override

That phone and and have some 101 with them the good Lord bless and keep y’all I hope I can be back in a couple of days with that recipe cuz I’m dying to taste of it and I want to share it I’ll see y’all ASAP