{"id":496,"date":"2008-09-23T10:27:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T15:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/\/?p=496"},"modified":"2008-09-23T10:27:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T15:27:04","slug":"fresh-tomato-soup-from-our-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=496","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Tomato Soup From Our Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/tomatoes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-495\" title=\"tomatoes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/tomatoes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/tomatoes.jpg 414w, https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/tomatoes-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">\nOur garden has been producing far more tomatoes than the three of us can possibly consume. We have all enjoyed multiple BLT&#8217;s, tomatoes on sandwiches, garden spaghetti, etc. and have shared tomatoes with family members and taken them to church to give away. Still they keep producing. I&#8217;m not complaining &#8211; the tomatoes have seemed to be extra delicious this year &#8211; everyone says so. I have been running across recipes for tomato soup recently and decided to use some of our bounty to make some myself. As usual, I took ideas from several recipes and came up with my own version by adding a jalapeno and onions. The soup was tasty but evidently my jalapeno was not very hot because the soup did not have the kick I expected. It also did not have the intense tomato taste I would prefer. If I cook it again, I may add some tomato paste.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/tomsoup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-497\" title=\"tomato soup\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/tomsoup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/tomsoup.jpg 414w, https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/tomsoup-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">\n<strong>Fresh Tomato Soup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>5 cups peeled and chopped tomatoes (I used food processor)<br \/>\n1 medium onion, chopped<br \/>\n1 jalapeno pepper (remove seeds and finely chop)<br \/>\n1\/4 cup butter<br \/>\n1 teaspoon salt<br \/>\nchopped basil (to taste) (I used dried basil)<br \/>\n1 cup milk or cream<br \/>\n1 generous tablespoon corn starch<\/p>\n<p>Saute&#8217; onion and pepper in butter. Add tomatoes, salt and basil. Bring to a boil, lower heat to medium and cook for about 30 minutes. Bring back to a boil and add milk that has been combined with the corn starch. Cook a bit longer until soup has thickened slightly.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our garden has been producing far more tomatoes than the three of us can possibly consume. We have all enjoyed multiple BLT&#8217;s, tomatoes on sandwiches, garden spaghetti, etc. and have shared tomatoes with family members and taken them to church to give away. Still they keep producing. I&#8217;m not complaining &#8211; the tomatoes have seemed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}