My Lime Green Kitchen

Posts Tagged ‘Tomato’

If you halfway like canned tomato soup, you should try making it homemade.    I use home canned tomatoes but if you don’t have those, I’m sure you can use storebought canned stewed tomatoes and have good results.  You know restaurants don’t use home canned tomatoes and I often get good tomato soup in restaurants.

A stick blender really helps in making this soup.

Ingredients

2 quarts home canned tomatoes or 3 – 15 oz. cans stewed tomatoes
1/4 c. celery, finely chopped
1/2 c. carrots, finely chopped
1 cup cream
2 T. flour
salt and black pepper to taste
1/2 tsp. onion powder
basil or dill

Directions:

Simmer tomatoes, celery and carrots until vegetables are tender.  Using a stick blender, blend until tomatoes, celery and onions are completely liquified.

Stir flour into cream and pour into soup, while blending with stick blender.  Add salt, pepper and onion powder.  Gently simmer for 1 minutes.

Serve in bowls with basil or dill sprinkled on top.

Spaghetti Sauce

Garden Fresh Spaghetti Sauce

1 lb. Italian sausage
1 onion, chopped
1/2 green pepper, chopped
4 cloves garlic, chopped (I use the already chopped garlic in the big plastic jars from Sam’s)
12 fresh tomatoes or canned tomatoes (I used 3 quart jars of home canned tomatoes)
3 zucchini, sliced (I chopped mine pretty fine so Chad wouldn’t see them in there)
1 lb. mushrooms, sliced (chopped fine to disguise also)
4 carrots, shredded
2 T. sugar
1 tsp. salt
1/4 c. parsley, chopped
1/3 c. fresh basil, chopped
1 c. dry red wine (I used Shiraz because it was handy)

Remove casings from the Italian sausage (if yours has casings). Chop into chunks and brown. Drain any excess grease but leave a couple of teaspoons. Add the onions, green pepper, garlic and saute til the onions are clear.

Add the tomatoes, wine, sugar, salt, parsley, basil. Simmer for about an hour.

Add the shredded carrots, zucchini and mushrooms. At this point, I added meatballs that were already browned. Continue to simmer for another 20 minutes.

Serve over spaghetti noodles with salad and crusty bread.