Cream of Asparagus Soup

I saw this soup made on Cooking for Real on the Food Network a few weeks back, and it looked super easy, and super yum. Everyone knows I love asparagus, and I've been making more and more soups.I like to make soups cuz I can bring in a big tupperware of them to work and have lunch for the week. I generally toast a frozen roll that we have at the office, and I feel like I have a pretty healthy lunch...

Of course I made a few changes to the recipe cuz that's how I do... I had some celery hearts that were prime for soup making, and asparagus can be expensive, so I thought using some celery would be a good way to keep up the amount of vege, but cheaper. I sauteed up garlic, onion, celery and then added in the asparagus. I saved the tips to add at the end. I then added in vege stock-- i used a big carton and then just a bit of water cuz I always think stock is a bit salty. I brought it all up to a boil, and then let it simmer for 30 minutes or so. I poured it into a blender and blended away. I think that would make a decent soup, but then stirred in some sour cream (way less than in the original recipe) and a dash of skim milk. The sour cream didn't quite melt as well as I'd liked, but the soup still came out delicious. I added the tips to the asparagus after the blending, so they stayed pretty crisp and added some texture to the soup. All in all the soup was easy and yummy, I'd make it again. And I easily got 4 meals out of this, and could have probably stretched it out to 5...

Please note the photo of the blended soup and how perfectly it matches my counter!!