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Tomato Soup from scratch

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Tomato Soup from scratch
Today was a tomato soup day and I have freeze-dried tomatoes in the pantry! 

The Ingredients

  • Oil & butter for sautéing 
  • 2 onions, finely chopped
  • 1 whole bulb of garlic 
  • Salt (I used salt with freeze-dried wild garlic leaves in it)
  • 2 pints of freeze-dried tomatoes
  • 1/2 pint of freeze-dried yoghurt
  • 1/2 pint milk
  • Water (to make desired consistency)
  • Freeze-dried kale 

How I made my tomato soup

  1. Sauté onions
  2. Add salt to help release flavours
  3. While onions are cooking, peel and chop garlic and let sit, releasing the wellness properties 
  4. Add garlic to onions 
  5. Put tomatoes, yoghurt, and milk into a bowl and mix til reconstituted
  6. Add to soup
  7. Add water to desired consistency 
  8. Purée (someone hid my immersion blender, so I had to skip this step)
  9. Sprinkle on powdered, freeze-dried kale - sneaking in those extra nutrients 
  10. Season with salt and pepper to taste
  11. Serve with sourdough bread or grilled cheese sandwiches (or leftover pizza, like we had)



The tomatoes

For the tomatoes, at harvest time, I just washed them and pureed them in a food processor, and, then, freeze-dried them.

To store them, I vacuum-sealed them in mason jars (no oxygen absorbers, as I was using them within the year or two.) 

The taste-test

I don’t like tomato soup - but I loved this!! Maybe it was because I didn’t purée it and I had chunks of onion. 

Maybe it was because it was freshly harvested tomatoes that were freeze-dried and then used in the soup.

Maybe it was because I had made it myself, cooking from scratch. 

Maybe it is because I consider myself a homesteader now and we grow our own food (at least some of it) and we eat what we harvest. 

I’d love to see how you make tomato soup!
- Debbie

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