Cauliflower Soup with Stilton - port dinner

After the success of the Sauternes dinner, the group decided to have a port dinner. So after some brainstorming a few recipe ideas that would be different and "might" go with port came to light.

Doris and I are making Cauliflower Soup with Stilton with Chili Toasts.

The group thinks that hot spicy foods may go well with port... It's an adventure! The explorations is what's important... one way or another, we'll learn something.

Here's the link to the recipe.

Cauliflower Soup

The Ports that we are having with the dinner are:

• A white port {Wendy will provide.. the idea that this may go with the first course soup..}
• George and Doris: '75 Taylor
• Glenn and Sylvie: 85 Taylor
• Rob and Wendy: 94 Taylor

The dinner is tomorrow night, so an update will follo

w in a few days.

OK an update on the soup.... following the recipe will result in a very bland tasting soup which was very surprising given how much Stilton cheese it contained.....But I kind of anticipated that going in, so planned to garish with crispy bacon, and serve it with spicy, hot chili toasts.

However, the soup by itself was so bland that I had to add a teaspoon or so of salt, lots of ground pepper, and some garlic and onion powder.

Final additions at serving time were chives as a garnish, and a drizzle of truffle oil.

So after the above changes, the dish was very good, definitely a make again recipe. The chili toasts are a necessary side with the soup.