Fallen Much Behind

Yes, like it says, I have done exactly that.
This is due to the fact that I was at a different site for my company all this week and this site is exactly 1.5 bajillion hours away. Well maybe just 1.5 hours. But that is a long time to travel both ways. And then to tack a 10 hour day in the middle of it leaves absolutely no time for witticisms or fun. Don't worry, though. We still ate some amazing food.

Ok, whatever you are doing, STOP! Seriously, stop right now and go to the store to get the ingredients for this soup. It is freaking amazing! And then with the bread... aaah. To die for.

Oh you want the recipe? Right, sorry, I was so caught up in remembering how good this soup was.

Freaking Amazing Tomato Soup:


Ingredients:
1 large carrot (or 2 smaller ones)
1 onion
2 T butter
1T thyme
1 large garlic clove
2 T sun-dried tomato paste
3 cans chopped tomatoes
2.5 c hot chicken broth/stock
3 T have cream plus more for serving
salt and pepper

Method:
Coarsely grate the carrot and chop the onion. Melt the butter in a pan and add the onion, carrot and almost all of the thyme. Season with salt and pepper and put the lid on the pan. Keeping the heat low, cook the vegetables for 15 minutes, until soft, but not browned. Stir about twice during cooking. Crush the garlic and add to the pan about half way through cooking.

Stir in the sun dried tomato paste, tomatoes and broth or stock. Simmer gently for about 5 minutes. Add the cream and transfer about half to a blender. Blend until smooth then repeat with the other half (if you can fit all into your blender, go for it! We just couldn't). Season again with salt and pepper.

When serving, swirl a little bit of cream in each bowl and sprinkle with thyme.

We served it with some reallllly good olive oil and rosemary bread. We bought ours from our local grocery store bakery, but my sister absolutely swears by this recipe. I mean to try it out someday.

Since today is National Grilled Cheese day, we ate the leftovers with some mozzarella cheese melted onto the bread. Andrew liked it better, I liked it just the same. Because, seriously, it was so amazing to begin with.