Garden Tomato Basil Soup. Grilled Cheese Sandwich. Tomato Slices With Mozzarella, Parmesan & Olive Oil Recipes.
Tomatoes From Our Garden
We love tomato soup especially when the tomatoes come from our own garden. We had a big crop in our garden this year and plenty of tomatoes to use up. We grow cherry, roma, grape, beefy boy, earlier girl and any of the heirlooms. I love the heirloom. The small ones we put on the table and eat them whenever but they will get ripe to fast then I make something out of them, either soup, spaghetti sauce or chili sauce. This hub has my recipe for tomato soup.
My grilled sandwich is probably not the best way to make a grilled cheese sandwich, but it is the way we like it and so good. I like it because the cheese melts so nice.
Winter is here and the time of year for soup. I froze some of my tomatoes so I can make this soup in the winter months with tomatoes from our own garden.
Garden FreshTomato Basil Soup
My Garden Tomato Soup
INGREDIENTS:
4 cups chopped fresh Tomatoes
2 tablespoons butter
1 chopped onion
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoon flour
2 cups chicken broth
1 can tomato sauce
few fresh chives from garden chopped
1 teaspoon of oregano
1 teaspoon Cilantro
2 teaspoon basil or 2 cups or fresh basil leaves
1 teaspoon salt
DIRECTIONS:
Remove all stem ends from tomatoes then chop the tomatoes up.
Melt the butter with the chopped onions in a stockpot, cook until onions are clear, add sugar and cook until caramelized. Add flour and mix together to make a roux cooking until medium brown. Add chicken broth and tomato sauce; mix well add spices then add tomatoes cook until tomatoes are well cooked and mushy. Than remove from heat and cool once cooled place in blender and blend until creamy. Reheat and eat.
You don't have to put this recipe in a blender if you don't want to. It's good without blending. We like ours creamy. You can also add different spices whatever you may have in the garden or add peppers for some heat.
You can also cook the whole tomatoes in a pot of water till hot and skins will pop off, remove the skins then add them to the soup and cook until mushy.
Tomatoes From My Garden
Cheez Whiz Grilled Cheese.
Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Of course, if you have tomato soup. You have to have grilled cheese. I know it should be real slices of cheese, but I love my grilled cheese made from Cheese Whiz. I know it's crazy, but that's what we like.
♥ 2 slices of bread.
♥ Cheese Whiz
♥ Butter
Spread the cheese whiz on the bread put the two slices together. Spread butter on both sides add to pan. If you don't have soft butter just cut in squares and add about 3 squares to one side flip that side in pan then while one side is cooking I add butter squares to the other side.
COOK in skillet sprayed with cooking spray on medium heat 3 min. on each side or until lightly browned on both sides.
I sometimes add fried onions to the grilled cheese.
So good.
Beautiful Tomatoes
The tomatoes in the picture were from our garden the first of Sept 2012. They're kind of green yet, but they will ripen. We have some little animal out there that keep knocking off the tomatoes and I find them on the ground. Something was squawking at me the whole time I was out there sounds like a parrot, but I think it may be a young raven. We sure don't have parrots in Wisconsin.
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The Garden
Potato Beetle
Our Garden
This is our garden it's not a huge garden but big enough for us. We also grow tomatoes in hydroponic planters. This year we had more trouble because we got potato beetles in our garden, something we had never had before. We finally got rid of them.
The picture's of one of the potato Beetle in our yard.
Tomatoes are easy to grow in a garden or in a planter on the patio. You just have to give them a lot of sun, water, and a little fertilizer.
We like to grow many of the small tomatoes like grape, patio, cherry and roma. We like to put them in a bowl and pop one in our mouth as we pass by during the day, so good. The smaller tomatoes are very easy to grow in a pot if you don't have an area for a garden.
We grow the larger tomatoes for slicing and for sauces such as early girl, beef steak and we love the heirloom tomatoes they are so sweet. We planted in heirlooms called Mister Stripey, Cherokee Purple and Brandywine Tomato.
Tomatoes are a fruit and from the nightshade family. They're a great source of fiber with little amount of calories. They are also a good source of vitamin C and in lycopene.
Tomatoes right out of the garden sliced covered in parmesan and mozzarella.
Tomato Slices With Mozzarella, Parmesan And Olive Oil
Tomato Slices With Mozzarella, Parmesan And Olive Oil
1 large tomato
olive oil
Garlic salt
Freshly grated Parmesan cheese
1 to 2 mozzarella medallions
Pour oil on tomato. Add salt, Parmesan and mozzarella medallion.
Place under broiler until the tops brown. Be sure to watch closely.
Each year I seem to have different variety heirloom tomatoes. There are more than 600 varieties. The picture below is a heirloom and works great for making tomato slices with Mozzarella. Parmesan and olive oil.
Some of the names of heirloom tomatoes:
Brandywine Red Tomatoes
Cherokee Purple Tomatoes
Mr. Stripey
German Red Strawberry
Black Kim
Heirloom Tomatoes
One Medium Size Whole Raw Tomato
Nutrition Facts | |
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Serving size: 123 g | |
Calories | 22 |
Calories from Fat | 0 |
% Daily Value * | |
Fat 0 g | |
Carbohydrates 0 g | |
Sugar 3 g | |
Protein 0 g | |
Cholesterol 0 mg | |
Sodium 6 mg | |
* The Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet, so your values may change depending on your calorie needs. The values here may not be 100% accurate because the recipes have not been professionally evaluated nor have they been evaluated by the U.S. FDA. |
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Comments
This looks and sounds so delicious! My mother sometimes made tomato soup from scratch with home grown tomatoes and of course, cheese sandwiches. We used the Kraft American cheese slices, but I'm not sure they're all that different.
Gave you 5 more stars, pinned this recipe to my 'Soups, Salads, & Casseroles' board, voted it up and useful (wish there was a yummy option), and will share!
Great hub!
I love the recipe here. It sound delicious and makes me hungry. Thanks for writing and share with us. Voted up.....YUMMY!
Prasetio
Sounds delicious and so easy to make. I love the idea of making it fresh. Voted up and shared!
Oh, yummy! I am in complete agreement with Rusticliving. (Drooling on my keyboard.) Gonna try this real soon. Almost time to plant my tomatoes :) Thanks so much and voted up and sharing!
My mouth is watering from reading your recipes. I am definitely craving the soup and the grilled cheese, not to mention those amazing looking grilled tomatoes with mozz cheese on them. I have booked marked this page into my comfort food section of my files. A must have! Kudos on your garden. Nothing tastes better than eating from your own garden! Voted up and across (except funny) and shared!---Lisa
Your homemade tomato soup sounds delicious! You have such a beautiful yard and garden! Gave your soup recipe 5 stars and up and useful votes. Will also share. Wish I had the space to grow as much in a garden as you do. I loved working in our large Wisconsin garden when we lived up there. Hope you don't have those potato bugs again this year.
Then you would have to go to the store. No fun when you grow your own. I guess the potato bugs are just hungry. Good luck with the crop.
I like that you use fresh tomatoes. The old fashioned tomato soup and grilled cheese has a new face. Thanks for the great hub. I always like food with fresh ingredients.
One of my favorite meals from childhood is tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich. I also liked to have pickles on the side! Great recipe!!
Sounds amazing and with all these fresh ingredients, it must taste delicious. Tomato soup is my favourite. I started growing tomatoes last year, and would love to give this a try this year. Bookmarked to try out. Voted up and useful.
I do love a good hot bowl of tomato soup, yours looks delicious. voted up.
This looks and sounds delicious! Unfortunately, I do not get enough sunlight where I live to grow tomatoes. I have tried several times without success! Too much shade because I live on a steep hill and the houses around me block the sun. This is a great recipe! Voted up and SHARING!
JSMatthew~
Sounds yummy! I think I will try this recipe especially with the weather getting cooler. My family loves tomato soup!
That is a fine looking bowl of tomato soup, a good-sounding recipe, and a beautiful photo of tomatoes, chilies, and more.
Gus :-)))
Great recipe for tomato soup. We have a lot of green tomatoes out there and if they all ripen at once, I'll make some. I love tomato soup and tuna salad sandwich, or grilled cheese.
I have crackers enough for the both of us!
This sounds simply delicious! thank you for sharing!
This sounds real nice.
I like Butter....I want to try this recipe. Yummy for me. If you want to try another tomato soup. I have one recipe to share with you.
Sounds wonderful! I've already copied the recipe. Thanks.
Delightful! My daughter in law did her first garden this year and has a ton of tomatoes. I can do this I can do this!
Great recipe - and good to hear from you! You were my first you know - commenter, fan - and that got me started. Thank you so much!
Sounds easy to make - and with the fresh ingredients I bet it taste great! Thanks!
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