Adventures in Soup

A couple of Christmases ago, my brother and sister-in-law gave me a slow-cooker. While I realise there are lots of things you can make in them, in practice mine is a soup pot. Partly because I love my Maillard reaction when cooking meat and cannot be bothered to brown it and then cook it for six hours, and partly because everything you put in a slow-cooker stays wet and with many dishes I find that counter-productive and irritating.

For soup, though? It is the BEST THING. You just chop everything up and throw it in and hours later there's soup and you didn't have to brown anything or stir anything or pay attention to it at all. (Of course, the fact that I could just ignore it means I feel compelled to keep walking into the kitchen and staring at it, as if that will make the time go faster.)

While I have thrown a lot of things into the slow-cooker over the years and had them come out a delicious liquid, this is my new favourite:

( Cauliflower Cheese Soup )