Tomato Soup!

Today is the first day of my vacation and also a day where I don’t have anything really do it. I’ve been “busily”watching the TODAY show this morning and updating my blog. I cannot believe that it is snowing again!! I will make it to the gym at some point today, but the snow is a REAL deterrent. 


Yesterday we did a couple of errands, gym, (no tanning), laundry, visited my grandma and aunt and stopped by my mom’s office to say hi.  After we came home from the gym I was pretty excited to finish the tuna I made for Valentine’s Day. 

Danny has been talking about a tomato soup that he made up in his head that involved lots of tomatoes (think like a sauce) and breadcrumbs. I avoided making it for the past two days, so yesterday I finally caved. 

I knew I wanted to sneak in lots of veges, so I cut up 3 carrots, 4 stalks of celery, 1/4 of a red onion, 2 cloves of garlic (minced) and browned them in a tiny bit of olive oil. Then I put in about 1 cup low sodium chicken broth. I let them cook for about 10 minutes. Then I threw in one large can crushed tomatoes and 1 large can diced tomatoes.  I let that simmer for 15 minutes.  I added a couple stalks of kale and 4 spoonfuls (very exact) of small white beans and let it cook for 5 more minutes. I sprinkled sea salt, black pepper, parsley, a red pepper flakes on top of the “soup” and then tasted it to see what I needed more of (black pepper). 
While it was cooking I toasted 2 pieces of ezekial bread for Danny’s “breadcrumb” soup. After it was toasted I put it in the food processor and made breadcrumbs.  (I left it there until the end.) I used the immersion blender to blend up the soup so it was smooth. At the very end I threw in half of the breadcrumbs in the soup and mixed it all around. 

Have a great rest of the day! I will be doing some more of couch sitting and hopefully get to the gym at some point!

Tagged as: gnocchi, soup, tomatoes, whole wheat pasta