{"id":26936,"date":"2011-12-27T12:30:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T20:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=26936"},"modified":"2011-12-27T10:23:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T18:23:14","slug":"homemade-tomato-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=26936","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Tomato Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently made a recipe<\/a> that called for a can of whole tomatoes and I didn’t use all of them. I had to use up the leftovers so I decided to try making my own tomato soup. It was the first time I’ve made tomato soup from scratch before.\u00a0I know–something this simple, how haven’t I made it before? I have no excuses other than laziness. Which is a major shame because we had sooo many <\/em>tomatoes in our garden this summer.<\/p>\n

Since I had to use up the tomatoes I decided to try my hand at tomato soup<\/a>. I found a recipe that was simple and easy to use.<\/p>\n

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My friend Star came over for dinner and she brought her amazing cornbread. It has corn, peppers and cheese in it and it’s probably the best cornbread I’ve ever had.<\/p>\n

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The tomato soup was pretty easy to make. I didn’t have a food mill but I used a sieve to drain the liquid from the chunks. It was messy and kind of a pain but it worked.<\/p>\n

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I varied the recipe just a tad–I added a bay lead to the simmering sauce. I didn’t have cloves so I sprinkled a little bit of cinnamon in there. I also added back some of the chunks of tomato. This was also the first time I’ve ever attempted making a roux<\/a>. After I made the roux, I slowly added the liquid and chunks back into the pot.<\/p>\n

I tasted the soup and it was a bit tart. I added a little bit of brown sugar to the mixture. I tasted it again and added a little bit more. Then I added some of the Sugar\/Splenda Blend that I have and it tasted much better.\u00a0I let it simmer a little bit longer and then dinner was served.<\/p>\n

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I’m glad I added some of the chunks back into the soup. It made it heartier. I wish the photos of the soup had turned out better but the steam made the photos a little blurry.<\/p>\n

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The soup was good! I think I could have added a bit more sugar to it because it was a bit tart, but I liked it. The recipe made 6 servings for 90 calories a serving but I dished up two servings each because it was kind of a small portion. That’s still not bad for under 200 calories.<\/p>\n

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The cornbread went perfectly<\/em>\u00a0with the tomato soup. It was the perfect meal for winter time. \u00a0Star also made a nice, healthy dessert for us to share–pears. She peeled the skin off, sliced the pears and put them on a baking dish. She sprinkled cinnamon on it, put goat cheese on the pears and baked them for a few minutes.<\/p>\n

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The pears were softened and warm and the goat cheese was a bit melty. It was lovely! And a very nice winter dinner with friends.\u00a0When Star left I found something in my bathroom:<\/p>\n

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See that $5? It’s a little game we play. (And don’t mind the turquoise countertop–we are remodeling.) Star is the type of friend that will give a complete stranger her shoes if they asked for them, and then she’d offer them her socks as well. She’s a completely selfless person who is also impossible to spoil! She gives everything away and refuses to take money for services (like kitty babysitting). So I started hiding money in her apartment whenever I was over there. I thought I was sneaky but she’d find it and hide it somewhere in my house. That same stinkin’ $5 has been passed between us for who knows how long.<\/p>\n

This time when Star was in the bathroom I snuck $5 into her purse but I obviously didn’t do a good job at hiding it because she hid it in my bathroom before she left.\u00a0I need to get more creative with my hiding. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

QUESTION: What’s your favorite winter soup?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently made a recipe that called for a can of whole tomatoes and I didn’t use all of them. I had to use up the leftovers so I decided to try making my own tomato soup. It was the first time I’ve made tomato soup from scratch before.\u00a0I know–something this simple, how haven’t I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[311,55,2124,314,315,2372,95,104,107,1683,152,3205,212,251,262,2932,298,2598,1602],"tags":[5227,8599,8824,1741,2344,1690,8770,1940,5063,1537,3193,934,5225,5226],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_2812.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26936"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27342,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26936\/revisions\/27342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}