Broccoli and shrimp chowder

Brimming with delicious nutrition, this elegant soup may be served hot or chilled by the cup as a first course or by the bowl as an entrée that would be perfectly rounded out with a crunchy mixed green salad to make it a lovely meal. Substitute cooked crawfish tail meat for the shrimp for a change of pace, or leave out the shellfish altogether and swap the chicken broth for vegetable broth to make this vegetarian. Try this soup with cauliflower, which comes in many colorful shades these days, or try charteuse-colored Romanesco, a cousin of broccoli with pointy-tipped florets.