“Good soup is one of the prime ingredients of good living. For soup can do more to lift the spirits and stimulate the appetite than any other one dish.”  Louis P. De Gouy, The Soup Book (1949)

When was the last time you enjoyed eating cauliflower?

Elisha returned to Gilgal and there was a famine in that region. While the company of the prophets was meeting with him, he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot and cook some stew for these men.”  (2 Kings 4:38; NIV)

January is a great month for making soup.  It helps to “warm” us up on those cold, and damp winter evenings.  Soup can be one of those nice “comfort” foods, without being destructive to our health.  And soups don’t have to take a long time to prepare.  I’ll feature a different soup recipe each week during the month of January.

I call cauliflower one of God’s perfect “white” foods.  As you’ve heard me say many times, most white foods really are not fit to eat.  White flour products such as white rolls, white bread, white pasta, and pastries and baked goods made from white flour are really damaging to our health.  White sugar also falls into that “destructive health” category.

However, cauliflower is a beautiful white food full of nutrients with no damaging “side effects.”  Cauliflower has a compact head (called a “curd”), usually about six inches in diameter that is composed of undeveloped flower buds. The flowers are attached to a central stalk. Cauliflower lacks the green chlorophyll found in other members of the cruciferous family of vegetables like broccoli, cabbage and kale, because the leaves of the plant shield the florets from the sun as they grow.

Cauliflower is low in fat, high in dietary fiber, potassium, folate, water, and vitamin C, possessing a very high nutritional density. As a member of the brassica family, cauliflower shares, with broccoli and cabbage, several phytochemicals which are beneficial to human health, including sulforaphane, an anti-cancer compound released when cauliflower is chopped or chewed. In addition, the compound,  indole-3-carbinol, appears to slow or prevent the growth of tumors of the breast and prostate.  Cauliflower also contains other glucosinolates besides sulfurophane, which may improve the liver’s ability to detoxify carcinogenic substances.  A high intake of cauliflower has been found to reduce the risk of aggressive prostate cancer.

I’ve made a number of tasty dishes using cauliflower.  Today’s recipe is an easy soup that doesn’t require using any flour or making any special sauces.  Enjoy!

Prayer Power
Lord we continue to thank You for all of the wonderful foods You’ve created for us to eat.  May we enjoy Your creation as we worship the Creator!

Link of the Day
Easy Cauliflower Soup

Blessings on you as you enjoy some cauliflower.