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Cream of Tomato Soup Recipe
Vote for Cream of Tomato Soup!
Ode to Termaters
Tomatoes have no feet--
for all that they have toes,
but very good to eat
opposed to those that grow--
from stems on which you wobble,
since stems of vine are green,
so g'head with yer gobble
and dose on lycopene!
Karen Robiscoe :)
The Results!
The Ingredients:
Recipe in Rebus:
Cook Time
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 hour
Ready in: 1 hour 10 min
Yields: 4 cups of soup, or 2 bowls
Ingredients
- 2 lbs tomatoes, heirloom, plum, or on the vine
- 1 cup ½ &½ cream
- ½ cup olive oil
- 4 oz basil, chopped
- ½ cup vodka
- ¾ cup shallots, diced
- 4-6 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 TBSP sugar
- Handful mini heirloom tomatoes, to garnish (optional)
- dash salt
- dash pepper
- ½ cup water
How to Do It:
- Wash tomatoes, and halve them.
- Place halved side up in a baking dish. Drizzle with a tablesoon or two of olive oil. Put dish in preheated oven at 425. Cook until fork tender, about 40-45 minutes.
- While tomatoes bake, prepare the basil. Remove stems and budding flowers, and dice leaves. Set aside.
- Peel and mince shallots and garlic, and set aside, as well.
- Remove tomatoes.
- Peel tomato skin as follows: place tomato halved side DOWN in bowl (to minimize loss of juice) and pinch skin. This should pull the skin right off, otherwise, peel back like lamination. Discard skins, and set aside bowl of tomatoes for now.
- Heat olive oil in kettle. Add shallots and cook until translucent.
- Add garlic bits. As soon as you hear these sizzle---
- Add the vodka. Cook, stirring intermittently, for about 5 minutes.
- Add tomatoes.
- Add sugar.
- Mash together by hand.
- Add the water, and puree the mixture with immersion blender. (a food processor or blender will do, too) Cook until thickened, about 20 minutes.
- Remove from heat, and add cream. Spin the immersion blender around in the mix again...what the hey...
- Salt to taste...
- Pepper the same...
- Add the diced basil, reserving a handful with which to garnish the bowls of soup. I like to add a few mini heirlooms to the soups' top, too, but that's optional. Obviously, a grilled cheese is the perfect compliment to this old-fashioned, comfort food. Enjoy!
Add halved mini heirloom tomatoes for a nice garnish, too. Dish it up, and serve with grilled cheese. :)
