After my post yesterday about how our veggie garden is actually pretty successful this year I had a big, fat massive FAIL. A series of them actually…
I thought I would be all Martha-y and make some homemade tomato soup with all the tomatoes we were able to harvest. (There were 10 ripe ones for us to pick yesterday. Yay!) I’d never made tomato soup, so I looked up a few recipes and altered them to work with what I had. I’ll give you the recipe in a minute, but first I have to warn you that it might be cursed.
After I simmered the soup for about an hour, I transferred it to the blender. That was a big disaster. I was holding down the lid, but still managed to have burning hot soup shoot out like a volcano everywhere. Cabinets, counter, sink, stove, dog, me…you name it, it was covered in soup.
I cleaned that up and transferred what was left of the soup into the refrigerator, where I proceeded to knock it over. It had been on the top shelf, so it spilled all over eveything yet again.
Then as I was doing all the dishes I created in the soup fiasco, I dropped a ceramic plate. Of course it smashed into 1,000 pieces. Of course I was barefoot and stepped in one of them and cut myself.
Basically, yesterday I picked 10 tomatoes, 2 green peppers, some basil, defrosted homemade chicken stock, cooked for a few hours, and all I got was one measly bowl of soup and a HUGE mess. The soup was pretty good, but a little too spicy for my taste. Next time I’d leave out the red pepper flakes.
If you would like to try your luck (I hope yours is better than mine), here is the recipe:
Spicy Tomato Soup:
3 cups of chicken stock
10 tomatoes, seeded and smashed (strain juice, discard seeds, keep juice)
1 tbs fresh basil, chopped
1 diced green pepper
2 tbs brown sugar
salt and pepper to taste
optional: red pepper flakes
optional: diced onion & celery (I didn’t used these, but would if I had them on hand)
Combine ingredients on stove top and simmer for 45 min-1 hour
CAREFULLY transfer ingredients to blender and blend until smooth
Cool and store in refrigerator or freeze
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