Keto "I Need to Go Grocery Shopping" Bacon Broccoli Soup

I'm a pretty lazy person but I'm tired of being pudgy, so I'm doing the keto diet and trying to eat healthy.  The other night Bear and I were feeling peckish, lazy, and cheap.  Take-out was out of the question, but so was leaving the apartment to go to the grocery store.  So I rummaged through our sparsely stocked refrigerator and came up with this fast and easy recipe!

All ingredients, as per usual, were eye-balled and tweaked to me and Bear's taste.

• 4 strips bacon
• some end pieces of gourmet cheese (I forget what kind...Bear would kill me...) from Murray's Cheese Shop
• beef stock
• 1 container frozen chopped broccoli
• Kerrygold unsalted butter
• tablespoon of mayonnaise
• garlic pieces
• salt, cayenne pepper, onion powder to taste

First I fried up my bacon to a medium crispy state...do NOT get this too crispy unless you like having to chew creamy soup!

Then, in my awesome Ninja blender, I put about 2 cups of beef broth, cheese, the broccoli, butter (about 3 tablespoons worth), mayo, garlic pieces, and the cooked bacon WITH the bacon grease.  You gotta get that good fat on keto!

Ninja the hell out of the whole thing!

The result will be kind of clumpy, but that's okay because you are going to let it cook for about 10-15 minutes on medium heat.  The cheese and butter will fully melt, and everything will get nice and mixed.

After 10-15 minutes, your soup should be nice and frothy.  Put the heat down to low, and stir for a couple of minutes.  This will ensure that the butter, cheese, and bacon grease doesn't separate from the broccoli puree and broth.

Take that frothy, fatty goodness and put it right back into your Ninja for a good, thorough blending.

Told you I was lazy!  I try to use the least amount of dishes I possibly can.  In this case, all I used was a saucepan and the Ninja.  I just poured the soup directly from the Ninja into the bowls...soon after, right into my face.

Because I like to spice things up, I added a little bit of cayenne pepper on top.  Voila!  A delicious snack/meal -- snack if you eat just one bowl, meal if you eat a couple (guess what me and Bear did?).

Laziness yields success sometimes!

-Alex