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This week I am making creamy tomato soup. There are a lot of options with soup. Soup can be thick, creamy, chunky, and liquid with solids. Today there are many terms you hear often with soup for example bisque, chowder, stock or broth, bouillon, and consommé. You have a choice of different meats seafood, chicken, pork or beef bone to add more flavor. Choices of liquids to add for thickness or smoothness with dairy, non-dairy, cream, and cheese to give the creamy element.

Certain spices can remind people of a different culture. If by adding chili powder, they can give it a kick. Fantastic for cold weather. Soups are wonderful to keep you hydrated during cold winter weather. In the olden days, pots are not as strong they cannot handle the heat. With the past, soups were cooked by adding hot stones to cook the soup. The importance of soup is the cooking process to take out all the nutrients from the protein and vegetables.

Creamy Tomato Soup

Ingredients:

2 tbsp. vegan butter

1 onion(diced)

2 clove of garlic

4 cup of tomato

1/4 tsp baking soda

1 tsp parsley

1 large bay leaf

1/4 tsp salt

1 tbsp. basil

2 tsp honey

salt and pepper

Instructions:

In a medium pot, turn on the stove to allow vegan butter to melt.
Chop and peel onions. Dice onions. Mince the garlic.
Add garlic in the pan, saute the garlic and add in the onions. Cook and stir to combine.
Place tomatoes, broth, baking soda, parsley, and bay leaves. Let it cool. Once boiled. Lower the heat.
Remove the large herb such as bay leaves. Allow it to cool and puree the soup.
Can add gluten-free crouton on the top of the soup. I like to stir in a little of the non-dairy milk to make it creamy.
Enjoy!

What to Add to Soup

fresh diced tomato on top
pesto on top
saute bacon and onion on top
chunks of chicken with spinach
fresh basil on top

The benefit of Tomato Soup

Creamy tomato soup is a wonderful simple nutritional soup to have weekly. Tomato has a large amount of lycopene, which is good for inflammations. You can make a quick lunch grill cheese with creamy tomato soup. What can you have with tomato soup? You can have soup with mozzarella stick, avocado salad or with BLT. Tomato soup can be stored in the freezer. If you want to freeze the soup, do not add dairy products in it until you want to have the soup. It can be stored for 6 months.

If you are always looking at a screen, do have soup to help with your eyes nice and strong. What I should try are Asian gluten-free meal ideas.

Every week, I make a weekly soup. Carrot potatoes and tomato soup. I love soup throughout the year. Both during the summertime and during the fall, I can have soup all the time. The weather got a lot colder this week we had snowfall warnings. The roads are very icy. In the last couple of weeks, my children were home with the flu for a couple of weeks. Therefore, I needed to make some soup to boost their vitamins and their immunity. My family grew up with carrot potatoes and tomato soup, which I had forgotten about. Last year, my daughter has become sensitive to tomato. The soup was forgotten. Now, she can have them again but in moderation. Carrot potatoes and tomato soup. My Mom uses to make this often.

Carrot potatoes and tomato soup

Ingredients:

1 tomato

1-2 potatoes

1 carrot

1/2 pot of water

Pork bone or chicken bone(optional)

Instructions:

Peel and cut carrot and potato.
Cut onion ends and peel the skin off. Cut it into chunks.
Then, cut the tomato into chunks.
Take a pot, fill with a half pot of water. Allow it to boil.
Place the vegetable in the water. And, turn down the heat.
Let it simmer for 45 minutes.
Turn off the stove.
Enjoy.

Nutrition

Vitamin A: carrot gives vitamin A. Good for the eyes. Great for eyesight, reproduction, and the immune systems.

Vitamin B: potato gives vitamin B. This helps to reduce stroke, improve cell metabolism and improve energy level.

Vitamin C: vitamin c is in tomato. Vitamin C helps to repair body tissue. Therefore, some people call this soup ABC soup.

Soup

Vegetable soup has a lot of vitamins. Good for children but tomato might not be good for infants. Kids love this soup due to the sweetness of the onion. If you add corn, children would love it too. Using the slow cooker You can get stronger flavors. And, if you don’t want to constantly look after the soup, put it in the slow cooker and forget about it. Put all ingredients in the slow cooker. Allow the slow cooker to cook high for 3-4 hours or slow for 6-8 hrs. I love it when you return home the whole house smell like a home cook meal. Warm and cozy. Do try carrot potatoes and tomato soup.

If you like soup, do try my post on kabocha soup. Next, I would like to try Napa soup.