The Best Cheese & Broccoli Soup

The Best Cheese and Broccoli Soup

1 large bunch fresh broccoli
1/2 cup butter or margarine
3/4 cup diced onion
1/2 cup flour
2 cups half and half
1 cup reserved broccoli liquid
1/2 tsp worcestershire sauce
8 oz velveeta cheese
2 cups chicken broth
salt and pepper to taste

Cut broccoli into bite sized pieces and cook until crisp tender.  Reserve 1 cup cooking liquid.  Melt butter, add onion and cook until tender.  Stir in flour, add chicken broth, half and half and reserved broccoli liquid and cook until thickened stirring constantly.  Add Worcestershire sauce and velveeta and cook until cheese melts.

Party Slush - various recipes

Various party slush recipes for me to try from ward cookbooks:


Party Slush

Slushy Limeade Punch
1 12 oz can frozen limeade
2 cups sugar
7 cans water
1 (2 liter ) 7 up

Mix limeade, sugar and water.  Put mixture in double bag zip lock gallon bags.  Freeze 3 or 4 days!  Take out of freezer 3 hours before serving.  Put in large bowl and mash with a potato masher.  Add 7 up and serve.  Great for wedding receptions

Summer Slush
1 lg can pineapple juice
1 12-oz can frozen lemonade
1 pkg raspberry Kool Aid
4 cups sugar
1 pkg frozen raspberries
Add water to make 2 gallons.  Mix and freeze.  Serve this with 7 up or just thawed alone.


Isla's Shower Slush
2 cups sugar
3 cups water
1 1/2 cup orange juice
1/4 cup lemon juice
46 oz can pineapple juice
1 box frozen strawberries that have been mashed or blended
3 bananas mashed
3 qt ginger ale

mix sugar and water and boil five minutes.  set aside to cool.  combine rest of ingredients.  add to sugar and water mixture.  Freeze in two 1/2 gallon milk cartons . set the mixture out an hour before using  Add 3 quarts ginger ale just before serving.  Yield: 2 batches that serve 30 to 35 nicely.

Best slushy punch
2 pkgs Kool Aid  (any flavor)
2 cups sugar
2 quarts water
1 46 oz can pineapple juice
1 qt cold ginger ale
Mix ingredients together, adding ginger ale right before serving.  if you like, freeze punch base in gallon freezer bags the night before and add ginger ale before serving to make a slush.  I put 13 1 cup servings into the first freezer bag and pour the rest into the second bag.  This slush is always a big hit.  Serves 25

Pina Colada Drink
1/4 cup cream of coconut
1/2 cup pineapple juice
2 tsp lemon juice
1 large cup ice cubes
Put all in blender and blend just until ice is small crystals.

Old Fashioned Lemonade:
Water
1/4 cup sugar
3 lemons
3 limes
Mint leaves or lemon balm
Fill a teapot full of water and bring to a boil.  In a small saucepan bring 1/4 cup water to a boil  Add 1/4 cup sugar and stir til dissolved.  Add zest of 1 lemon, juice of 3 lemons, zest of 1 lime, juice of 3 limes.  Stir and pour into a 6 cup container.  Add 5 cups boiling water.  Stir and chill.  Serve with lots of ice and garnish with mint leaves or lemon balm.

Wedding Punch Sauce
5 cups sugar
2 cups water
1 oz almond extract
1 oz lemon juice
ginger ale
Bring sugar, water and lemon juice to a boil.  Remove from heat and add almond extract.  Cool in fridge.  Make the night before it's needed.  Add 1 1/2 cups sauce to 2 liter bottle of ginger ale.

Strawberry Crush
4 pkg frozen strawberries
3 large cans pineapple grapefruit juice
6 mashed bananas 
1 lg can orange juice, frozen
1 large can frozen lemonade
6 cups sugar
2 qts water
7 up
boil sugar in water about 5 min.  add all other ingredients and stir until frozen juices are melted.  Pour into containers and freeze  spoon into glasses and cover with 7 UP

Swiss Cheese Fondue

Swiss Cheese Fondue

I have a friend who does fondue, this is her favorite recipe:

9 Tblsp butter
9 Tblsp flour
3 cup milk
salt and pepper
1/2 tsp dry mustard
2 cloves minced garlic
1 lb Swiss Cheese, grated

Melt butter and add flour, salt and pepper, 1/2 tsp dry mustard, and garlic to make a paste.  Whisk in milk.  When thickened, add cheese and stir until melted.  Serve with bread cubes.

Homemade Root Beer

Homemade rootbeer is a favorite at Halloween and summer barbeque parties.

Homemade Root Beer

1 bottle rootbeer extract
5 lbs sugar
5 gallons water
5 lbs dry ice (can use 7 lbs)

Mix together in a 8 to 10 gallon water container (not metal) the water, sugar, and extract.  Stir all together.
Using gloves put in the dry ice small pieces at a time.  Stir with wooden or plastic spoon.
It takes about 30 minutes to carbonate.  Stir every few minutes

TIPS:
I was told to never use metal containers or utensils.
When you buy the dry ice, it comes in a big chunk, when you throw the whole big chunk in it tends to freeze to the bottom of the container, so if you can break it up buy banging the brown bag of dry ice on the ground or using an ice pick, try to break it up in small chunks!!
If it stops brewing and you need it to, when you pour water over the ice it starts it brewing again.


Yummy stuff!  Christy's favorite!

Healthy Waffles

I just found this on Facebook and want to try it, or instagram I should say, but it says healthy waffles, to die for


Healthy Waffles to die for:
1/2 cup egg whites
1/2 cup 2% cottage cheese
1/2 cup organic old fashioned oatmeal

Blend in blender until smooth.  It can be pretty thick so I'll add a bit of water to get the right consistency.

Cook in a waffle maker and eat
Top with a sprinkle of cinnamon, berries of choice and a couple tablespoons of plain greek yogurt sweetened with a bit of stevia.  Seriously Delish and no guilt.

I want to try this, will let you know if it is as good as they say

Pineapple Lemonade

I just saw this on facebook and it looks delish, I have not tried it yet but I am going to:

Pineapple Lemonade
1 cup country time lemonade mix
3 cups cold water
1 can (46 oz) chilled pineapple juice
2 cans sprite

Mix together and serve!

Mac and Cheese Cauliflower

I follow Trim Healthy Momma on Facebook, here is a recipe one reader shared:

it comes from a blog called "all day I dream about food"

Mac and Cheese Cauliflower

1 head cauliflower cut into pieces
4 oz cream cheese
4 Tbslp butter
1/2 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese
1/3 cup shredded cheddar
Steam cauliflower until tender
Add ingredients to pot   stir until creamy, add pepper so good