Home Made Tomato Soup

Okay I don’t know about you, but I LOVED tomato soup when I was a kid!

There was nothing better than seeing my mom or dad pull that Cambell’s can out of the pantry, plop that jellied blob of tomatoey goodness into a pan and heat it to just the right temperature before drowning it in salty soda crackers and indulging.

Then I became an adult, my own person with my own choices… oh, and I learned to read! I learned to read before I became an adult BTW.

Anyways, becoming a fully literate adult opened a whole new world for me, a world I didn’t know existed, a world beyond canned soup and their bad-for-your-health ingredients.

I learned about MSG (mono-sodium glutamate), how my body HATED it, how bad it is for us and that it was in most canned soups!

So I went on a mission to learn how to make soups from scratch!

Welcome to the world of BONE BROTH!

Guys, if you haven’t made your own bone broth- YOU HAVE TO!!! It takes soup making to a whole new level. I’ll get more into that in another post, but for now, just trust me and make your own broth!

Not sure how? Grab my cookbook! It’s so easy!

Anyways, this tomato soup recipes is one of the easiest, and yummiest soups you’ll try! There’s a more detailed, yummy recipe in my cookbook… but if you’re looking for something super quick and easy, this one will do.

Here it is:

Ingredients:

• Lots of tomatoes, preferably garden, but store bought will do.

• A full onion, chopped nice and fat

• A whole garlic bulb. You can separate the garlic chunks if you want, don’t have to.

• Olive oil

• Salt, pepper and basil

• 3 cups bone broth

Instructions:

• Cut the tomatoes in half and fill your cookie sheet that has been lined with parchment paper.

• Add your onion and garlic to the cookie sheet.

• Drizzle with olive oil.

• Bake at 400 until they’re roasty and darkening.

• Add to blender with bone broth.

• Blend until it’s smooth or chunky, whatever you like.

• Add to pot along with spices and cook until warm and you’re hungry.

(For a video tutorial check out either my facebook or instagram page!)

For an added bonus, serve with grilled cheese! This takes it to the next level!

Now, if I were superwoman, I would have served mine with a grilled cheese on fresh, home made bread with cheese I made myself from a cow I’m raising my backyard… but I’m just a small-town mama of 4 here doing my best and so today’s soup came with half-burnt grilled cheese made on Costco’s rye bread. But it was still delish!

And, as mentioned above, if you'd like a recipe with specific measurements and ingredients (such as herbs and. spices), I have an excellent one in my cookbook!

Until then, happy cooking and as always, thank you so much for taking time out of your life to read my thoughts!

Giveaway!!!!

Want a $5 gift certificate to my website?!?!? Comment below and let me know what your favourite home made soup was a child! Winner will be drawn Monday, December 1st.

God bless,

Sarah