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Does anyone have a recipe for tom. soup please? I want to do my own, I'm growing the toms and basil, is it a case of just boiling it up or do I have to add other things. I thought I'd ask before you all got busy outside. My mouth is watering already, warm brown rolls dipped in...ah bliss.

Delia's Roast Tom Soup??

Val    lentil and tomato is a very good soup to make at home  :)

How Wardy? Do I need any other ingredients ? Are the toms okay in a blender first, I'd have to skin them but do they need a sweetener at all?

Val I have a book right at my side.  It's a book my lovely niece bought me when she heard I'd got an allotment.  This was her contribution as I'm giving her some veggies  :)  Right, let's have a look for tomato soup recipes.  I'll email the recipe to you.

The lentil and tomato is in an old Marg Patten book.  I'll go and dig it out

Back soon  :)

3 lb ripe tomatoes, peeled and chopped
1 large onion, peeled and finely chopped
1 clove of garlic, crushed
1 large potato, peeled and grated
fresh basil leaves
2 - 3 cups chicken or vegetable stock
1 tablespoon tomato purée
salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
1 tablespoon of olive oil
a thingy of butter 

peel the tomatoes ( place tomatoes in to a bowl and pour boiling water over, leave a few seconds, the peel should come off easily )
sweat the chopped onion in the heated olive oil until soft
add the chopped tomatoes, tomato purée, crushed garlic, salt and pepper some of the basil leaves and stir
pour the stock over it and let it simmer for 30 - 40 minutes
grate a potato into the soup and let it simmer another 10 -15 minutes
blend it until smooth, if no pips are required push through a sieve
let some butter melt in the soup 

decorate with basil leaves serve with olive foccacia. Delicious.

I've not tried tomato soup with potato in it before  :)

Thanks Wardy, it will be a while before I give it a try, but I'll copy it out. I'll let you know how it goes...yum.

Tomatoes, onion, garlic, herbs and a small tin of anchovies.  Fry the onion till soft add the anchovies til they turn to mush, add the garlic, herbs  and toms (skinned or otherwise) and let it tick over.  Add the correct amount of water per toms and it's ready when it has reduced by half.  The anchovies sound yuk but they make it taste yummy.
Sorry about the vague method but that's kind of the way I cook.

Thanks Baggy.It sounds  good, I suppose the anchovies would give it that mmm flavour.

I was cookin something the other night and I wished I'd got a tin of anchovies (can't recall what it was now)  I think anchovies goes well in any dish with tomatoes or pasta etc with veggies, courgettes, toms etc.  Courgette and garlic in loads of olive oil with anchovy.  You fry that lot up (lots of courgettes, eg if you have a glut) and serve it in pasta, just stirred through

right thats it then ,next time I do a shop I'm buying some anchovies to add to things....I've just eaten but its making me hungry again :P

Tom soup couldn't be easier as long as you always use fully ripe toms. Several different varieties if you can.

Quantities don't matter - a large saucepan does.

Roughly halve and  quarter tomatoes.
Slices lots of onions and gently sweat in a little olive oil to soften, add tomatoes, any herbs if liked, a little salt and pepper  (not too much if you plan on fleezing any). Bring to boil and simmer for about 30 mins.
Allow to cool - wiz in a blender and pass through a sieve.
Served hot, iced or with a swirl of cream. crusty bread and cheese.

Thanks Beryl..Yes I did think of freezing some. Do I need to add any sweetener to any of these?

Have a look at mine at

http://www.recipes4all.co.uk/index.php/topic,298.0.html

You don't have to use the peppers. Dead simple and yummy.

Thanks Aqui, you don't need to skin the toms then? I guess putting them in a blender does all that.

Val - I'm too lazy to bother. And I don't like the waste. The blender chops them up enough for me!

Thanks Aqui. sounds about right for me to. ;D Don't believe in making work... ;D