Sometimes I come up with an idea that I think (key point) is clever and can’t resist going through with it. These ideas usually aren’t helpful in life, but are enough to keep me amused, and that’s all that matters.
Case in point: A few weeks ago, I posted the following on Instagram:
Do people ever eat cheese soup and tomato sandwiches? #deepthought
Well, today, this happened:
I know. You either hate me or want to marry me right now.
And yes, I made cheese soup JUST for this purpose. All in favor of marriage have just changed their minds.
A cold front blew in yesterday, so it at least made sense to make soup. Also, since this is Texas, we still have somewhat decent tomatoes at the grocery store. It was now or never, right?
I found this recipe for Beer Cheese Soup from The Kitchn and thought it sounded tasty enough. It wasn’t until making it that I realized just how much cheese it required: A POUND AND A HALF. If you want to have a heart attack, please make this soup. Add bacon while you’re at it.
It really is delicious, though.
I had two issues with this recipe:
1) After cooking the veggies in the stock, it says to strain the soup and throw the veggies out. If I’m about eat soup with that much cheese in it, I’d like to hold onto all available roughage, please. So instead, I blended them in with my immersion blender (and avoided dirtying another bowl and sieve). But that brings me to…
2) After dealing with the veggies, I added the cream cheese as directed and specks of it never fully blended in. If I didn’t have a food blog/wasn’t posting about this, I wouldn’t care. In fact, I ate it as-is last night and was just fine with it. Today I blended it again and it’s now a creamier, more beautiful soup. See what I do for you, dear reader? If I make this again, I’ll just wait to puree everything until the very end.
If YOU make this and can get your hands on a tomato this time of year, I highly recommend making a sandwich to go with your soup just so you can do this:
Cheese and tomato forever. <3
Going all-out nerd about it is totally up to you.
bake me away! 
OMG, you are brilliant! *Runs off to get one of the last few reasonable tomatoes of the year.*
This is such a perfect idea. And very clever. And there’s beer. This twist on the classic should become a classic
Eileen – That’s the spirit!
Leslie – I think I agree with you 100%.
I’m in the group of those who want to marry you.
<3
I’d like to give you this as a token of my appreciation for this post.
I love this flavor swap idea, and am jealous you thought of it first! Also, good call on the health-balancing act. Thank god for immersion blenders, amirite?
Aw, it didn’t insert the gif. Well, here’s the old-fashioned way.
Ahhhh! haha, I love it. And yes, my most-used appliance has become the immersion blender!