Beer Cheese Soup

This is a wonderful beer cheese soup that will warm you up and give you the extra protein you need to do all that spring cleaning.  I you don't want to add the beer you can just add a little more chicken broth to equal that amount of beer you would normally add.  Either way this soup is wonderful.  I paired it with some cornbread.  That recipe is in this blog if you want to look that up too.

 

 

Beer Cheese Soup

 

 

 

 Sauté onion and garlic together for a few minutes then add 1 cup celery and carrots to the pan and cook until soft.  Add 1tps hot pepper sauce, ½ tsp cayenne, ½ tsp salt and pepper or more if you like any of these ingredients.   

 

Add 3 cups of chicken broth, and 2 cups of beer, 1/3 cup butter and stir to combine.  Add slowly while stirring 1/3 cup flour. 

 

 

Add 4 cups of milk or half and half.  Stir until mixed well.  Add 6 cups of shredded cheddar cheese or more if you like it creamy.   Then add 1/3 cup of cream cheese and 1/3 cup of sour cream.

 

Last thing to add to this beer cheese soup is 2 TBS of Worcestershire Sauce, 1 TBS Dijon mustard, and 1 tsp dry mustard.

 

Simmer the beer cheese soup for 10 minutes and serve.  I made cornbread to go with the recipe that is in this blog a couple of days ago.

 

Enjoy

 

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Split Ham & Pea Soup

This is a wonderful warm winter comfort soup. You can use ham or not. I used the ham bone I put in the freezer from Christmas dinner. You can cook it on the stove or in the crock pot either way will produce a wonderful soup.

Split Ham & Pea Soup



I put the ham bone in some water and started boiling it. I let it boil for at least a few hours with whatever amounts of carrots, onion and celery you would like.  I removed the bone so I could pull the ham off it to put in the soup. I had to let it cool and added about a cup of split peas to the 5 quart pot of water along with a few cubes of chicken bouillon. 

 


 

The peas boiled for a about an hour when I put the ham I pulled off the bone back into the pot.  I added some frozen peas and seasoning.  Anything will work.  I let it cook for a few more hours and used an emulsion blender to break down the veggies.

 

 

I will taste along the way and if it seems too plain you can add more chicken bouillon or extra seasoning.  

 




Serve with crackers or bread.  Yummy on cold nights and snowy weekends.

 

 

 

Enjoy.

 

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