I hope you are having more fun, now that weekend is here for many.
It’s the reverse for me because this weekend is gonna be all about chores. I hate chores so much, it’s loathing.
And I am hoping, it’s not only me? The worst is doing laundry and emptying the dishwasher.
Some days, I am super productive. You won’t find me sitting around aimlessly, doing nothing. But there are days where I almost wish to curl up in a ball and just watch reruns of my favorite sitcom.
It’s a sitcom about 6 people, paleontology, fashion & more. Can you guess?
I think I gave away too many tips. Huh, generosity fails me all the time.
So in order to fullfil the “curling into a ball” requirement, rustling up simple & comforting foods is almost a necessity.
Take this soup for an example. Throw in some chopped broccoflower and whole head of garlic to roast in the oven.
Watch an episode of your favorite tv show.
Hit pause, get your booty into the kitchen and finish preparing this soup.
Throw a few slices of whole wheat bread in the toaster, whirl up soup into a blender, sprinkle on necessary spices and lunch is served!
Now, the only excuse NOT to make a simple lunch like this has only one explanation — lazyness. Or the need for a maid.
Well, I’d love to believe we all need a maid in our lives. Half of the time spent is cleaning the kitchen.
Before, during and after.
My hands are begging for serious attention.
Ingredients:
- 1 medium head of broccoflower, cauliflower or broccoli – chopped
- 1 head of garlic, halved
- 1 tsp salt
- 2.5 tbsp coconut oil
- 1.5 to 2 cups of coconut milk
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- 1/2 tsp coriander powder
- 1/2 tsp cumin powder
- 1/2 tsp chili powder
- optional: a squeeze of lemon juice.
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350F. Line a baking sheet with foil.
- Place halved whole garlic head in another small piece of foil. Drizzle some coconut oil and a pinch of salt. Wrap foil.
- In a bowl, add chopped broccoflower, some coconut oil + salt. Mix to coat and dump it all in the prepared foil on baking sheet.
- Place garlic foil in the same baking sheet (corner) to roast with broccoflower for 30 minutes.
- Remove broccoflower to cool. Continue roasting garlic for additional 20 minutes.
- Allow broccoflower and garlic to cool before blending.
- Add 2 tbsp of roasted garlic + roasted broccoflower + coconut milk into a blender. Blend until smooth.
- Top cream of roasted broccoflower & garlic soup with tempered spices & lemon juice, before serving.
Optional: Add lemon juice if needed.
For tempering spices:
- In a small nonstick pan, heat remaining coconut oil on medium low. Add mustard seed and allow to sputter for a minute.
- Remove pan from heat, add coriander, cumin and chili powder.
Off to continue sulking as the weekend is looming and the chances of escaping chores seems nearly impossible now 🙁
What is your favorite tv show and which chore(s) do you dislike the most?
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I don’t like washing dishes or cleaning bathrooms. But washing dishes might be worth it to have some of your delicious soup! I love that it has coconut milk in it!
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Kristy — haha! thanks sweetie 🙂
I hate chores too… 😉
That soup looks and sounds amazing!
Cheers,
Rosa
Rosa — I am glad! I thought I was being miserable on my own 😉
I love these captures, as always! 😀 More than anything, your presentation wants me to try the recipe 🙂 And I never like doing chores! But it’s a different case when we are left with no choice. 😛
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Harsha — thanks sweetie! I agree with you on chores. Its painful 😀
Lovee you photos and that lovely speckled mug & spoon! What a coincide its cauliflower soup currently on my blog too 🙂 Love your coconut milk version. Must try it!
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Rose — I guess, great minds think alike? I’d love to believe that fact 😉
The soup looks so delicious. Gorgeous clicks as ever K!
Cheers!
Anuradha
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Delicious,healthy and fresh….love it
Seema — thanks a lot for commenting dear. I have been super busy. Catching up soon, I promise 🙂
oh my gosh, I LOVE all of these pictures! seriously, I feel like you should frame them in your house somewhere! gorgeous!
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Gina — thank you so much sweetie 🙂
Such gorgeous pictures! A mighty tasty looking soup too!
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Wow, kiran
The soup looks yummy! Love that you have added coconut milk to it. Must be so flavorful.
The photographs are stunning. I agree with simply life.. you should frame them. Absolutely gorgeous clicks!!!
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I prefer to avoid chores 🙂 This soup looks absolutely delicious! I want it for breakfast 🙂
Hope you have a great weekend sweetie…with very few chores 🙂
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Magic of Spice — thanks! But my weekend was filled with unavoidable chores. Sigh. That’s life 😀
This soup looks just wonderful! And I hear you, I hate chores too! My husband and I did a huge load of laundry this morning and he did the dishes. Of course somehow our hamper is already half full and so is our sink 😉 I also love Friends! But my absolute favorite show right now is Downton Abbey – I can’t get enough!
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Katherine — thanks a lot dear! You got me curious about Downton Abbey 😉
What beautiful images Kiran. That soup looks very tempting. I would have to agree with you that laundry is definitely my most hated chore. And it’s something I seem to have to do everyday. If it’s not time to do the sheets, it’s time to do the bath-towels and then the beach towels and then the school uniforms and then the everyday stuff that just keeps coming. Relentless! Oh to sit in front of my favourite sitcom and not worry about what is piling up in the laundry!
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Charlie — laundry keeps on piling, endlessly!! So nightmarish.
great soup and pretty pictures 🙂 i am hooked on downton abby
do you work?
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Rebecca — What am I missing?! Never knew about Downton Abby! And no, I don’t work. Only a few freelancing here and there 🙂
This looks too good. I’m obsessed with roasted garlic and I’ve been wanting to try broccoflower. I’ll definitely be trying this soon!
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Rachel — thanks dear. Do let me know how it tastes 🙂
Soup sounds & looks so delicious! Lovely photos!
Sara — thanks sweetie 🙂
A super comforting and delicious soup! Love that photo of garlic and spices.
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Thank you Kiran for another veg recipe and yes, I need it for I am like running out of ideas on what to cook for myself. This yummy soup will be my perfect dinner bc I prefer something healthy and filling for my tummy.
As much I hate the weekend chores, I don’t have a choice but to move on with the laundry and the rest bc thats the way it is.
Nava — you are so welcome! and I hate to agree about the chores, but that’s the truth.
Beautiful!!!
Kiran I have to say that this soup can convert my husband to a cauliflower lover… LOL
Really nice recipe….
I hate each n every chores, who likes them. Yes we all do them but no one like them… RIGHT. LOL
Reem — thanks dear, let me know when he converts 😉
I hate chores too ! It may be weird, I hate dishwashers mostly because of the time I take to load and unload the stuff,so mostly I end up doing the dishes myself 🙂
This sounds like a great soup,and yes I love roasted garlic !
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Namitha — I totally agree about the loading and unloading. This is the main reason why I refuse to do dishes, twice! 😀
Unloading the dishwasher is one of the few chores I’m okay with doing…as for ironing, sign me up for a maid please! My top 4 shows would have to be FRIENDS, Sex & The City, Modern Family and Big Bang Theory…I’ve literally been watching reruns of BBT all day…love lazy Sundays :)! Hope your weekend was productive, Kiran!
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Khushboo — it was productive with chores. Le sigh.
I absolutely loathe chores too, mostly ironing… and cleaning… I just usually put on some funny movie to watch!
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Gourmantine — ditto!!!
We started doing the majority of our weekend chores on Thursday night after work as a team. It works great, and now we get more time to do what we like on the weekends. I have everything I need to make this. Can’t wait to give it a try. 🙂
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Kristi — I love your approach and usually work the same way, but we had some heavy workload over the week and hence, weekend was the only choice 🙂
This looks so beautiful!!!!!! All of your photos are perfect. A lady I work with made a cream of broccoli soup and it was amazing. She wouldn’t give me the recipe. i bet yours is better! I’m getting a big bag this afternoon and getting back into the kitchen for round 2 of the perfect cream of broccoli soup!
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Cass — thanks dear. Let me know how it tastes. God, why can’t people just share recipes? So darn rude in my opinion 😉
i like cauliflower *slight creamy, but after understanding your recipe, it engage very interesting spices, would love to try it!
i love your cup and spoon-cute! the setting totally perfect 😉
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gorgeous clicks Kiran..love that broccoflower sitting in the bucket.. i love creamy soups and it is still in the 30s here .. so soup season continues!
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Looks wonderful. Can’t wait to try. Two of my most favorite veggies (in flavor and appearance)I’d be using both! in 1 dish. Yummy!
Hugs! =)
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Broccoli and garlic… This looks delicious! I hear you, my knuckles bleed when I crack them because my skin has gotten so dry from doing dishes all the time. Oh, the things we do for the love of food.
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broccoflower? what is it.. looks like a cross between brocolli & cauli? never heard of it.. love that pale green, so much more prettier than brocolli. love the speckled mug with matching spoon.. ultra cute! 🙂
btw, my fav tv show these days is outsourced. simpsons & coupling comes a close second. who likes chores? if there is even one such person they must be outa their mind!
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Deeps — it’s a cross between broccoli & cauliflower. In the States, they grow quite a few of cross-growth veggies (I hope that made sense). I love outsourced too 🙂
I know the show you’re talking about and I like it too! 😀 I’m obsessed with tv and there are so many shows that I’d love to watch while with a bowl of soup!
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Lorraine — I share the same excitement! 😀
My current fav show is The Good wife.
And i hate hate hate doing the dishes 😛
Storm — ditto about dishes. Loathe it 😀
I hate doing the dishes too! Mum does them when I’m home but at my boyfriend’s house, I do them. 🙁 It’s ok though since he makes me delicious food to eat. 😀
Your photos are so pretty!! Love the colours of the mug and spoon.
Jenny — your boyfriend is a keeper 😉
Sounds really tasty with a hint of Indian spices.
I love your sparkly little soup mug. Beautiful styling too!
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The soup looks yumm!
u dont like emtying the dishwasher? I wish I had one and that was the only chore. when its about cleaning then I hate to sweep the floor. u know those indian brooms right? they r back breaking…
I would never hire a maid even thugh we could, lots of ladies here looking for a job as such. I just feel that maids are not very clean and hygenic and my house shouldnt be treated like crap.
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Helene — I don’t like doing the same chore twice. What to say 😉 And I concur, those brooms are truly back breaking.
This soup sounds delicious. I’ve never made a non Asian flavored soup using coconut milk! Am curious to see how it tastes.
Vicky — thanks dear. Coconut milk has so much use and you’d be surprise how well it tastes in this recipe 🙂
I am craving for soup today and this sounds so yum! Love the props you used 🙂
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Kankana — thanks sweetie 🙂
There’s nothing better than a lovely soup on a cold winter’s day. I am LOVING all of your great vegetarian/vegan recipes!
The dishwasher is my nemesis as well, but thankfully I can usually talk my husband into emptying it 🙂
Andi — thanks a lot dear. Our husbands are definitely keepers 😉
Whoooaaaa Kiran! I adore that roasted garlic picture! I would bathe in garlic! Mmmmm! Love love your soup! Sounds so hearty and warming!
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Katie — thanks sweetie! I share the same enthusiasm towards garlic, but not sure if I could muster enough guts to bathe in it 😉
Ugh chores. The worst part of let’s say doing laundry is that by the time I’m done with folding, there are mountains of laundry ready to be washed. I change kids clothes 3 times a day. After school, then home clothes, and PJ… is it too much? I think I’m the one who’s killing myself! Anyway I never feel I’m done with chores. Sigh! Meanwhile I loooove your soup! I tried to pin this but Pinterest seems to be not working. I’ll have to come back and pin again before I forget! Looks really delicious and will try it one day!
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Nami — I feel the same exact way about chores. Its never ending! Aaahhh!!! Thanks for pinning this recipe, Nami 🙂
Ugh, I hate chores too, but can never seem to relax properly until they are done. I’d love a bowl of this soup to relax with after everything is clean, or even while watching tv. It looks and sounds amazing, and that photo of the roasted garlic is absolutely stunning!!!
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Mmm..looks thick and delicious! Beautiful pictures too! Cheddar-broccoli is my daughter’s favorite soup, and I’m going to try this to see if she likes it.
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Tadka Pasta — let me know if your daughter likes this soup 🙂
my husband loves coconut and cauliflower but says soup isn’t his thing – i bet he’ll love this one!
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Lynn — I hope so too! Let me know of the verdict 😉
I doubt if I have a cup and spoon like the one in your picture, I will ever use them..lovely props and such wonderful click, Kiran! Love the creamy and filling soup.
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Love, love, love all your pictures, props (especially the speckled spoon & mug), and the soup. I’m brimming with ♥, thanks to you!
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OMG Kiran! I can’t wait to try this soup. Not only does it look tempting but also high on flavours.
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EasyFoodSmith — thanks dear, let me know how it tastes 🙂
Beautiful presentation!
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Be thankful you HAVE a dishwasher 😉
Brilliant soup! That picture of the roasted garlic had me drooling!
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Love your pictures and props – so gorgeously styled, Kiran. Awesome recipe too – not just healthy, but got some delicious flavours…
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Mmm…Super yummy soup and I love your photos too. I’m craving a big bowl right now! So many fave tv shows, but as of late, I’ve been watching a lot of Merlin with my kids and hubby. And, even though I usually miss it, I really enjoy Modern Family. Least fave chore might be a tie b/w folding laundry and cleaning up the dog poop!
What a divine, tasty & comforting good-for-you soup! Yummy too!
The souop looks heavenly!
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MMM this looks and sounds wonderful! Can’t wait to give it a try!
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I’ve been looking for an easy souprecipe! I can’t wait to try this!
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Absolutely luscious photographs! I wish I could pick up that cup and start eating right away. 🙂 I like that you added tadka! Gives it a very Indian touch and must have added lots of flavour too!
This looks great! Are you using canned coconut milk or the kind in the carton?
Thanks!
Hi,
This recipe sounds yummy and I am anxious to make it, but I am not sure what kind of coconut milk to use. Do you mean the kind in the can or the one that is a dairy milk substitute?
Thanks,
Joyce
This was delicious. I am just dipping my toes into vegan recipes and I loved this soup. I added dried Thai peppers along with the spices, and if you are a spice lover it was perfect. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe!
What a beautiful presentation I cant wait to give this recipe a try