Tomato Soup

Mmm Mmm, Good!

Sure, you can always go to the store and buy a can of Tomato Soup. It will work in a pinch, especially if you want to fix yourself a quick lunch and get back to work. You can even grill up a cheese sandwich if you are feeling spunky. But real Tomato Soup is a more lengthy, yet not complicated, process. It will also blow your mind because it tastes so fucking good.

On top of that, you can control just what you put into your soup and use only natural ingredients. Glowies are always out there, trying to inject you with estrogen or mind controlling polymers, so this soup won't set off any metal detectors or lead some alphabet operators to your door...yet.

Backstory

They weren't totally fresh, but at the back of the pile was a ton of good ones.

While this article will give you the steps to make Tomato Soup from scratch, it will also tell you a story. In fact, the story is the best part of the whole creation process as far as this article is concerned. Lettuce delve into the fun...

I got a call after work from a buddy of mine who happens to have a wife that runs a truck stop. He asked me if I happened to like Roma tomatoes. Of course I do! I said. I like all sorts of tomatoes, despite the fact that nobody in my family likes them. Heh, in the high summer, I subject them to tomatoes just because.

So my friend says, "Get over here, some truck driver had a melt-down and started tossing crates of tomatoes off the back of his truck. A pallet of them fell against the freight door of his trailer and when he opened it, about 2000 pounds of fresh Roma tomatoes fell out on the ground. They are perfect, so hurry up and get some."

I drove over there and couldn't find these tomatoes. Seems that another trucker decided to park his truck where the tomato pile was, obscuring the massive mound of Romas. Finally, I found them, and picked up about 15 pounds of them. The pile was massive. A lot of the tomatoes were busted up, bruised, and otherwise not something I could use, but I got some good ones. Next year, during spring, that whole back of that truck lot will be absolutely covered in Roma tomato plants unless some asshole decides to weed-trim them down or use a fuck-ton of Roundup on them. Stay tuned.

As much as garbage picking anger tossed tomatoes seems like a dirtbag thing to do, I really, really like tomatoes...I feel no shame.

Once I got them home, I had a few things to figure out. What was I going to do with 15 pounds of Roma Tomatoes? Sauce was the obvious first choice, but it is late spring and it's been quite hot lately. Also, the woman is doing a keto diet, so that means pasta is out. I decided to do a soup.

What Happened

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Got them home and washed them. Look at that brilliant red color.

Herbs used in the creation. Rosemary, Cilantro, Garlic shoots, and Basil. I would have put Thyme in it as well, but it is still early spring and the Thyme isn't as developed as the rest of the herbage.

Sliced in half with garlic and onions. Brushed with olive oil and ready for the 450 degree oven.

Diced up herbs. I added some cilantro because I had it laying around. It was lost in the end product, dominated by the basil and garlic.

The tomatoes, garlic, and Onyo are now roasted. Ready for the soup pot.

The best part about roasting tomatoes is that their skin just falls off, meaning you don't have to peel them. Here they are, with all roasting juices, getting ready to break down fully.

Now, the fresh herbs go in. It will simmer for about an hour, to break everything down as far as it will go.

I use a stick blender (motor boat) to blend all of the herbs and vegetables down to a less chunky soup.

Done with the stick blender, but despite the fact that a lot of food blogs and cooks say to put the heavy cream in before you blend, I do not think that is a good way to make this soup. A blender makes heavy cream froth up too much.

Fully blended and then the heavy cream is added with a spoon and slowly stirred in.

I only use a quarter cup of heavy cream. Add to taste.

Some yellow cherry bombs for garnish. You can grill them quickly to add some color, but these bad boys were to sweet and good for that.

Finished product with garnish added. If you don't gave a girlfriend who is on a Keto diet, you might add some croutons, crackers, toast points, or grilled cheese sandwiches.

See Also

Go google some videos or something. I made the soup, you can fucking go figure out what you want to eat on your own.

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