Once I read about a tomato soup made with fresh
tomatoes on one of the Polish foodies
blog. One of the comments was quite rough stating that the soup looks disgusting.
Well, thought to myself, it is time to teach young generation who probably seen
tomato soup out of a tin only that this is how real tomato soup looks like.
According
to my taste there is no better tomato soup than the one made with fresh, ripe, sweet
tomatoes, therefore I had to make one when I was in Ginestra. Especially I gave
Anna Maria a piece of the Wensleydale Cheddar in colourful wax and to say thank
you she brought me full bag of her home grown tomatoes. Besides we had some old
bread and some sausages to utilise, so I decide to experiment little bit.
This soup was beautiful cold or hot. I am really
sorry for not giving the exact quantities, but the general idea only. You have
to work it out accordingly to your taste.
Makes big pan
few small sausages, salami like, sliced
generous splash of olive oil from Gina
4 garlic cloves, peeled and roughly chopped
2 peperoncino peppers, crushed
one big colander filled with ripe, sweet
tomatoes, peeled and roughly chopped
about 1.2l vegetable stock (I cooked mine with
carrots, celeriac, onion, garlic, whole peppercorns, little olive oil salt and
pepper)
stale bread, diced
salt
freshly ground black pepper
freshly grated pecorino cheese
In a big pan fry the bread in the olive oil until
crispy, then remove from the pan and set aside. Add the sausages to the pan and
fry until the fat is released. Add garlic, peperoncino, fry for a minute or so
and add the tomatoes. After few minutes add the vegetable stock, season with
salt and pepper, cover and simmer for about 15 minutes.
Serve with bread croutons, drizzled with some
olive oil and sprinkled with pecorino cheese.
That soup looks so very good ! How weird that something that has been homemade with fresh ingredients can be percieved as disgusting. Poor Polish blogger, hope they gave as good as they got. :-))
ReplyDeleteI don't mind recipes without exact quantities, it leaves room for experimenting. I always have the hardest time, trying to write recipes down, due to the fact that I am such an intuitive cook.
Wow, I am smitten with your soup!!! I absolutely love all kinds of home made tomato soup!! always remind me of happy days :) And those sausages.... are they italian ones? Yummi
ReplyDeleteI am drooling!! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for your kind ocmments. :)
ReplyDeletePatricia, I can't understand this, but so many people are used to plastic food...
Daria & Jarek, yes, these are Italian ones, I made soup in Italy, when I was on holiday. They are like small salami. :)
Emily, lol! I am glad you like it. :)
Thanks again all of you and all the best! :)