Soups and Sickness

Tink has been sick this week. Nothing major. Fever and cold symptoms. My way of combating the germs is essential oils around the home and soup. Lots of soup.

This week I roasted a chicken and made my roast chicken soup.

I also made, for the first time, homemade tomato soup. Did you know there's high fructose corn syrup in tomato soup and 480 mg of sodium in one 1/2 cup serving?? If you read my What Motivates Me page, you'll know because of my hubbies health issues, we are low to no sodium in our home now.

My biggest problem with sharing what I create is that I have an issue with recipes.  I rarely follow them.  I throw in some of this and some of that.

This is about a teaspoon

Last night while having left over tomato soup, Hubby says, "This is really delicious." I'm so glad he liked it and I really hope I can recreate it!

I got the base recipe from Taste of Home but didn't follow what they said.

I love my cast iron trivets 

Here's what I did.


Herbed Tomato Soup (my version)

1 15 oz can crushed tomatoes
small can of tomato paste
a palm full of:
onion powder
garlic powder
basil (I think I added 2 palm fulls)
parsley
a dash of cayenne powder
2 cups of milk
4 tbsp flour

Combine tomatoes, onion and garlic powder, basil, parsley and cayenne powder.  Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Stir occasionally to avoid sticking to pan.

Stir in paste. Mix milk and flour well.  Slowly stir into soup. Stir until thickened.

I served it with grilled cheese the first night and with chicken sandwiches for our leftovers night.

This is a very rich version of tomato soup and large bowls of it are extremely filling.

If you make this, I'd love to hear what changes you make. I'm always looking for new ideas.