Article: Rethinking creamy broccoli-cheese soup

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Betty Eberly of Milwaukee, Wis., was desperate after she made the broccoli-cheese soup from our Desperation Dinners cookbook. "It is very tasty and fast, but the cheese clumped the broccoli and onions together," she wrote to us in an e-mail. "Is there a way I can get a smooth consistency short of melting the cheese into a white sauce?"

In trying to avoid making a white sauce -- a step that many cooks shy away from -- we simply stirred the cheese into our broccoli soup just before serving. And while it doesn't affect the taste, the cheese sometimes does clump. So we decided to take another look at our soup.

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