Recipe for Fire Roasted Tomato Soup at Life. Its been pretty dark and dreary here in Seattle the past couple of days.
On days like this I just want to say in the house, curl up with a good book and eat a childhood favorite, grilled cheese and tomato soup. There is just something about that gooey cheesy sandwich being dunked into hot, steamy homemade tomato soup. To be more precise, I mean homemade tomato soup that is loaded with fire roasted tomatoes, fresh basil, white wine, garlic and a little half and half for good measure.
Roasted tomato soup with broiled cheddar. Lest you think I spend any part of my days doing Important Things — preparing, and totally not at the last second or haphazardly, for my only child’s second birthday, or for his first week of pre-preschool; assembling warm, wholesome meals for his lunch each day; meeting my manuscript deadline; dealing with the shoe bomb that went off in my closet, etc. — it’s only fair and honest that I tell you that I’ve spent a significant portion of the last year considering ways to merge grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup in a single vessel.
In a way, though, it relates to all of those things (well, not the shoes). There’s something very back-to-school-ish about tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches, and because it’s still September, if you’re lucky, you can still get some tomatoes worth eating, and if not that, at least worth cooking down. Roasted Tomato Soup with Broiled Cheddar Serves 4 (though closer to 6 if served in mugs) Make soup: Preheat oven to 400°F. Tomato Parmesan Soup. Tomato Soup Florentine. One of my favorite winter comfort meals is tomato soup and grilled cheese.
It takes me straight back to my childhood when I would sit at the stool in my parents kitchen dunking my hot sandwich into the soup bowl, marrying the flavors of tomato and cheddar cheese to my liking. These days I serve the same meal to my daughter and she seems to love it just as much as I did. To amp up the flavors of my old favorite I recently made homemade Tomato Soup Florentine, a tomato based soup flavored with basil, onions and wilted spinach.