A friend of mine occasionally surprises me with a recipe request via text. Depending on what he's in the mood for and what he has lying around in the cupboards, he'll ask me what to do with them or even something specific. I've decided to share these "quick fire" recipes with my loyal viewers and lurkers. These are simple, non-pretentious, vegan meals that are meant to be nutritious and delicious. To start this series, which I shall call... Quick Fire Friday? I'm open to suggestions, really. I give you Tomato Soup. Method shall be written verbatim as I have sent it via SMS.
Ingredients:
-oil
-salt
-2 cloves of garlic, minced (chopped extremely fine)
-1 onion, diced (white, yellow, or sweet, preferably)
-.25c tomato paste
-apple cider vinegar
-24oz (roughly) canned tomatoes
-12oz water or veg stock
-herbs/spices
-.25c nutritional yeast (small or large flake)
Method:
"Him: You got a good tomatoe soup recipe?
Me: Tomato soup.
Him: Tomatoe
Me: In a pot with a little oil and salt brown 2cloves garlic minced, 1 onion diced, then .25c tomato paste. Paate has to get browned too. Small splash of apple cid vinegar to stop the carmelization from burning, then add 2 big cans of diced (or whole if you wanna chop em) tomatoes, 12 oz. water or stock, a little black pepper, cinnamon and fresh thyme.
Me: Boil that shit on high for 15 min, taste and boil down until flavor develops
Me: Add .25c nutri yeast if you got it to enrich.
Him: Yes! Thank you
Me: Think of me when you dip a sandwich in it"
At this point, you should have a chunky and robust soup to accompany a delicious sandwich or just enjoy on its own. If you want to get fancy, stick an immersion blender in that pot and puree or cool, and demolish it in a blender then reheat and enjoy. If you don't cool something before it enters and spins in a blender, the pressure created by the steam trapped in that blender will combust upon "pureeing" and you will end up with hot tomato all over you and your kitchen. But don't take my word for it...
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