Sometimes You Need Soup

The job situation remains unchanged, and the male unit gets the keys to his new place on Thursday. The official move out date is the 15th, so there is a little over a week remaining. Which is somewhat unnerving, since there is so little I have control over at the moment.

One of the things I do have control over is some home-cooked meals, such as the delicious tomato soup I made from Debbie Chapman's blog, onelittleproject.com/tomato-basil-soup/. I used my first round of produce from this season's farmers markets to make her soup, and was not at all disappointed. I used all fresh ingredients, except for some boxed chicken stock.

        

The onion was even growing a new onion! The fresh ingredients made the soup tasty. But my fancy spinning chopper made it easier to get the ingredients into the soup. I bought it at a Tupperware party on a whim, and was even told by my mother "you will never use it." HA! I use it ALL THE TIME! To make DELICIOUS FOOD!

I usually chop up the ingredients into somewhat smaller bits so that the tiny blades can actually chop it. Look at the difference it makes in the onion!

So, with all the fresh ingredients, and Debbie's easy-to-follow instructions, I made a fantastic tomato soup all on my own for the first time! I even got to use a never-before-used kitchen item, a hand blender. It helped me get the soup from this:

To this:

The soup came out so well that I ended up freezing some of it into individual size bags so I can have some in the next few months. I am trying to prepare for the possibility that things will be tight, so fresh produce will be hard to come by. Luckily there are the $10 for a 5 lb bag of produce guys, but they have a limited selection at the moment. I may get some pink or yellow tomatoes from the next stand to make the soup again, with a twist, and freeze that as well. Maybe I should also stock up on veggies to freeze for the coming months...