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Lover of carbs, cake and all things in between. An East London girl on a year's mission to chronicle all her gastronomic highs and lows, and hopefully gain many many pounds in the process.

Saturday, 1 October 2011

When Life Gives You Tomatoes....

...make tomato soup.

tomato harvest

While we were sunning ourselves in France, our tomato plants were hard at work at home.  The day after we got home, B picked 6 pounds of fruit.

That is a LOT of tomatoes, people.


In an attempt to clear some fridge space for other foodstuffs, B made tomato soup.  He made it according to a Heston Blumenthal recipe (which I can't find the link to online, but it's from this book), which calls for no water or stock to be added - so it's just tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes, flavoured with onions, celery, garlic and big bunch of thyme.  

The result is an intensely-flavoured soup with all the summery freshness of tomatoes without any of the acidic taste you sometimes get with canned varieties.

tomato soup heston blumenthal

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