I have one more tomato soup recipe from this season. This one finished the bags of mixed tomatoes that I was peeling and freezing every day in September. The nice thing about soup is that one can use up all of the odd bits lurking in the pantry. In my case it was less than a full cup of small elbow pasta that I’ve had for years. It wasn’t enough … Continue reading →
Tomato season goes something like this, chez nous: Week 1: plant tomatoes in potager. Weeks 2 – 6: water, weed, wait. Week 7: see first, teeny-tiny tomato. Weeks 8 – 12: go out every day and look to see how they’re growing. Weeks 13 – 18: harvest vast quantities of tomatoes, carefully fill freezer with soups & sauces, keeping colors of tomatoes together, eat constantly. Weeks 19 – 23: debate … Continue reading →
This is a proper, old-fashioned soup, the kind that should be made over two days. On the first day you make the stock, cooking it slowly for 3 or 4 or 5 hours. Then strain it and chill it to remove all the fat. Of course it’s easiest to do this if you happen to be in the middle of a cold snap, like we are at the moment. We’ve … Continue reading →
I remember, back in the beginning of time, watching Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. In one episode he stated that: If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe. This is a bit more mundane but: If you wish to make this chicken soup you must first roast a chicken. Actually, that’s the best part… First one has a lovely dinner of roast chicken with … Continue reading →
The other day I had my first slow cooker failure. It should have been simple. It was soup. How can one screw up soup? Apparently with ease. It was a simple premise: we were going out for lunch which I knew would be long and a lot of food. I decided soup would be perfect for dinner that night and doing it in the slow cooker would be easy. I … Continue reading →
It’s been soup season here for two reasons: I have an excess of tomatoes. I love soup. When I was growing up there were two kinds of soup at my house One was Beef Vegetable, made with short ribs, onions, carrots, celery, potatoes, cabbage, rutabagas and egg noodles. When my mother said she was going to ‘make soup’ everyone knew exactly what to expect without further adjectives. The other was … Continue reading →
When the freezer is full and so are the tomato plants….. I make soup. The yellow tomatoes are still producing like crazy while the red and green tomatoes have more or less retired. As long as I had all the yellow tomatoes, and it was cold, I decided to make a yellow-themed soup. Sort of…. the carrots were orange and the cabbage light green but you get the idea. This … Continue reading →
