Creamy Cauliflower Soup

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The creamyness of this soup doesn't come from cream but from nuts and nutritional yeast.  Today I used pine seeds but they are quite expensive.  They also didn't do the creamy job like cashews, pine seeds have a distinct flavour of their own.  The healthyness of cauliflower is obvious, it's a kind of cabbage. All cabbages are awesome! Cauliflower is easy to blend with a smooth structure. Just put everything in the blender and it's done.  A word of caution, if you don't like the taste of raw cauliflower this soup might be too much for you.

Creamy Cauliflower Soup for two:
about 300 g cauliflower
1 tl dijon mustard
1-2 tsp salt
1-2 tbl of lemon juice
1,5 dl white nuts(cashew, macadamia, brasil, pine seeds)
0,5 dl nutritional yeast
3-4 dl water
Blend everything and serve.
Bon appetit!

Today all ingredients were set nicely in place for the ingredients-picture. However my hunger was too great so I forgot to take the actual picture.  Today you have to do without it.

Bortsch soup

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For this soup you both a juicer and a blender.  The juicer is needed in order to keep the soup as a soup and not a stew.  The beets are so massive that if you blend them straight up you get quite a thick stew.  Not a bad idea!
The basic idea is to blend the beet juice with tomatoes.  This is the core fo the bortsch.  The sweetness we get from carrot juice and a different taste and a little salt from the sellry stalk.  More depth to the flavour comes from the sundried tomatoes, in the raw kitchen they serve the same fuction as tomatopuree in the ordinary kitchen.  Sauerkraut is a normal ingredient in the Bortsch soup.

Bortsch soup for three:
3 big beets

1 big carrot
1 sellery stalk
Juice these and pour the juice into a blender.  Add
1/2 kg tomatoes
3-4 sundried tomatoes
a small piece of onion
1 tsp Dijon mustard
2 tsp salt
Blend it to a smooth soup, pour it into a serving bowl and add 100-200 g of sauerkraut and any kind of herbs.
Bon appetit!