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Sunday, January 19, 2014
Jan. 19th, 2014 08:28 pm Soup Project 2014: Soup 3 - Tomato-Basil Soup
I got this recipe from my Betty Crocker book. They are all available online so it makes it easy just to link to the Tomato-Basil Soup recipe
It came out well and was tasty, although I might add more hot water at the end next time to make it a little more watery and less like tomato sauce. (Bear used it as sauce for his dinner - he liked it a lot, just as sauce). I probably added a little more carrots and accidentally a little more salt but that didn't matter. I couldn't use regular sugar since little bugs decided to live in my sugar bag, and I just put in a little brown sugar instead. I had dried basil leaves, so I used those.
Since I used real tomatoes, I had to learn how to peel and seed them, since I never had to do that before. After searching on the trusty Internet, which knows all things, I discovered a great peeling methods in the comments of one section that described boiling and then using a bowl of ice. The comment mentioned that if I had an electric kettle, which I do, it is much easier to boil water in it and then pour over a bowl/pot of tomatoes and let them sit for one minute. Then rinse tomatoes under cold water. And it will be easy to peel. And it was great. I put the X cut on the bottom of the tomato and the skin was coming right off without too much hassle. So I learned a new skill today.
Otherwise it was a mellow day. Sunday is our grocery shopping/cleaning day. I clean the bathroom, while Bear sweeps and washes all the floors. I'm hoping to watch "Downton Abbey" and "Sherlock" on PBS today but I will probably watch them tomorrow morning online instead.
I got this recipe from my Betty Crocker book. They are all available online so it makes it easy just to link to the Tomato-Basil Soup recipe
It came out well and was tasty, although I might add more hot water at the end next time to make it a little more watery and less like tomato sauce. (Bear used it as sauce for his dinner - he liked it a lot, just as sauce). I probably added a little more carrots and accidentally a little more salt but that didn't matter. I couldn't use regular sugar since little bugs decided to live in my sugar bag, and I just put in a little brown sugar instead. I had dried basil leaves, so I used those.
Since I used real tomatoes, I had to learn how to peel and seed them, since I never had to do that before. After searching on the trusty Internet, which knows all things, I discovered a great peeling methods in the comments of one section that described boiling and then using a bowl of ice. The comment mentioned that if I had an electric kettle, which I do, it is much easier to boil water in it and then pour over a bowl/pot of tomatoes and let them sit for one minute. Then rinse tomatoes under cold water. And it will be easy to peel. And it was great. I put the X cut on the bottom of the tomato and the skin was coming right off without too much hassle. So I learned a new skill today.
Otherwise it was a mellow day. Sunday is our grocery shopping/cleaning day. I clean the bathroom, while Bear sweeps and washes all the floors. I'm hoping to watch "Downton Abbey" and "Sherlock" on PBS today but I will probably watch them tomorrow morning online instead.