Gravy's Cooking Thread
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I make hearty tomato soup, a play on beef and tomato. 1 big pot, oil/butter to sautee onions/garlic/ginger throw in a 1lb of beef, bones/marrow/oxtail. splash of vinegar to quickly deglaze the bottom. Then 2 cans of whole tomato, puree'd (i don't like to buy pre puree), even some tomato paste if you wanna go all tomato'y. about 2 lb/s of russets, then just 4qts of water and cook on low for 6hours min. after the 6hour mark the soup changes to like super hearty and thick, color changes too. you gotta do some scum surfing in a few hours, and also drag out the oil (or it'd be oily on the lips).
by then of dinner, i'll have 6 to 8 quarts leftover and i'll freeze it for individual meals.
I used to add carrots/celery some shrooms and green peppers, my wife didn't like that, she wanted basically pure tomato, "none of that other vegetable garbage".
by then of dinner, i'll have 6 to 8 quarts leftover and i'll freeze it for individual meals.
I used to add carrots/celery some shrooms and green peppers, my wife didn't like that, she wanted basically pure tomato, "none of that other vegetable garbage".
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Tomato soup is what you want with a grilled cheese sandwich. Vegetable or Minestrone can do in a pinch but tomato is the shit. Erronius lives up to his name on this page.
My mom used to make a killer ham and corn chowder. It's best with leftover ham from Christmas dinner or something. She put dill in it, fucking great.
My mom used to make a killer ham and corn chowder. It's best with leftover ham from Christmas dinner or something. She put dill in it, fucking great.
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Fact.
It's not that it tastes horrible or something, but it's just worthless. It's liquid. That's it. By the same token I don't like eating a bowl of plain chicken broth. Soup needs to have *something* in it to be a redeeming part of a meal, veggies, meat, noodles, beans, whatever. Tomato Soup is basically a glass of V8 warmed up. That's not food. It's a drink that accompanies real food. By the same token you might as well call a mug of hot chocolate "chocolate soup". Same thing.
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Based on your description, I don't think you have actually eaten tomato soup. It's like when the guy said boobs feel like bags of sand on the 40 year old virgin.
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I mean you can if you really want to. That doesn't stop tomato soup from being a soup, though.
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That is why using it to dunk grilled cheese into is perfect. The grill cheese is that "something" that is missing. Two products coming together in harmony. I don't know anyone that ever has tomato soup without grill cheese.
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That's what the grilled cheese is for. I make mine like that Food Wishes guy(cheese on the outside and inside) and then chop it up into little pieces after grilling so you basically got croutons for your soup. Add them a few at a time so it doesn't ruin the crust. Or, if you're lazy, just toss some Cheezits in there.
Also, I'll admit I only got this idea from having to chop up my son's food when he was an infant.
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I've tried that, still doesn't do it for me. Seems like a waste of perfectly good tomato products to me.
The only reason I have a single can of Cambell's is my mother gave me a box of food out of her kitchen that she was never going to eat, hoping that I would eat whatever.
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