Potato and Stilton Soup

This soup is pure comfort food; we ate it in our house with home made cheese scones and it was delightful. You could also substitute the onions in this for leeks if you want to make a jazzed up potato and leek soup.

Blue Cheese Rice with Cannellini Beans

This is another long-standing recipe cooked in my house, and pre-dates my conversion to vegetarianism (5 years and counting!). It's from a very old Readers Digest recipe book (the same one that my pasta with black beans and kale recipe came from) and its title in that is 'Italian cheese and rice' because it uses Gorgonzola, but in my house, this is known as 'blue cheese rice thing' because we use any blue cheese we fancy. I have no idea why Pete and I feel the need to call it 'thing' but the name seems to have stuck. Soft blue cheeses such as danish blue or gorgonzola work very well, but we usually use Stilton which is cheaper and more pungent, and what can I say? We're cheapskates who like strong tasting cheese...

Leek, Red Onion, and Blue Cheese Pizza

This pizza topping is relatively easy to make and the blue cheese compliments the sweetness of the red onions and the sharpness of the leeks. Delicious! If you have a breadmaker with a pizza dough setting, use that to make the dough. Otherwise, just follow the instructions I've provided below. Of course, you could just use store-bought ready-made pizza bases, but they are far inferior to home made, so if you have the time (and the inclination) I'd strongly suggest making the dough yourself.