Super Simple Cream of Cauliflower Soup

Last night I made a batch Cream of Cauliflower Soup that pretty simple, fairly fast, and very good....

Ingredients:

• 1 head of cauliflower
  
• 1/2 large onion
  
• 1 - 2 cloves garlic
  
• 1 large baking potato
• 1 can chicken broth
• 1 can vegetable broth
• Salt-n-Peppa' to taste
• 1/4 cp. half and half (or more as much as you want ;-) )
• Olive oil
  

Steps:

0. Purchase one of these (or you can use a large blender or food processor, creaming the mixture in batches, but this thing made everything a ton easier)

1. Chop cauliflower and potato into bite size or smaller pieces.
   
2. Chop onion and mash garlic. Put this into a decent sized pot w/ 1-2 tablespoons of Olive oil and a dash of salt. Cook over medium heat until softened and semi-translucent.
   
3. Add cauliflower, potato, and broth to pot. Bring liquid to a boil and then turn down and keep simmering until potato and cauliflower chunks are soft (10-15 minutes).
4. Take off the heat and use your immersion blender to blend until smooth and creamy.
5. Add half and half, mix, and heat through

Thoughts:

• This was way easy and tasted really good ... perfect for a cold night.
  
• It could just as easily be done with other vegetables (potato, leaks, broccoli, etc). You will probably need some starchy vegetable or more cream depending on what your using.
• Some different seasoning or add-ins at then end would make it even more interesting.
• The immersion blender made creaming the mixture a snap. Just a few seconds and 90% was done. Another few seconds fishing around for any larger clumps and I was finished. Great consistency and no mess since I could put the thing into the dish washer.
  

Photos:

I was very hungry when it was done and anxious to try it so I forgot to take a picture ... imagine a bowl full of white creamy goodness with small flecks of black pepper showing.