Cooking Thursday: Comforting Tomato Soup

Hello dear Friends! 

The sun is shining and it's a beautiful day in the northwoods. ☀️😊

We had a couple of days of cozy rain, but I needed the energy boost of the sun today...so I was out soaking it up a bit. I was doing a few things in the yard and checking on my flowers. All of my orange lilies have been up, but around the deck I have several other colors and no orange ones.

 The deck ones finally started blooming and this color came out first:

I harvested a few strawberries for a little snack. And I think I'm going to pick my first cucumber of the season! It's a white cucumber and we've never had that variety before. It will be fun to try something new. :) 

Matt checked on the robin babies and they're starting to get a few fuzzy feathers now. Still so new but it's fun watching their progression. 

And I think tonight we may go hit a few golf balls after running some errands. Yay for summer still in full "swing"! (see what I did there? 😉)

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And now on to the real reason I'm popping on to say hi. To share this yummy comforting tomato soup recipe that I made the other day for my dear Annie. She had such a long crazy trip home from her study abroad and I wanted to make something special for her. 

We both love tomato soup (it's her favorite) and so I wanted to make this for her first day home. I want to try to make a few different kinds of homemade tomato soup over time. This was my first one and I used san marzano tomatoes as the recipe suggested. I couldn't find crushed so I used whole ones and broke them up a bit myself. And the whole soup got blended up with my immersion blender anyways. It was definitely nice to do it all in one pot. 

I found this recipe at natashaskitchen.com

But I think for the next one I make, I'd like to use fresh tomatoes and roast them first with lots of good things. So stay tuned for future attempts! 

This batch turned out great and was rich, flavorful, and comforting. Here are some pics during the process and the recipe. We had it with some mini grilled cheeses I made using up a baguette of french bread.

RECIPE:

Enjoy! 

xoxo