Recipe name:
Tomato Cheese Soup
Recipe category:
Cheese
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Recipe details:
28 oz 2 undrained and chopped 2 T Butter 2 ea Stalks of celery diced 2 ea Cloves of garlic, minced 1/2 ea Sweet red pepper diced 2 T Butter 1/2 lb Mushrooms, chopped 1 ea Large cooking onion diced 2 T Flour 1 t White sugar 8 c Beef stock 1/2 t Basil 1/2 t Rosemary 1/2 t Thyme 3 oz Cream cheese 1 ea Salt and pepper to taste 1 ea Parsley for garnish Place the tomatoes, with juice, in a buttered oven-proof baking dish. Add the celery, garlic and red pepper and cover and bake in a 325 degree oven for 25 minutes. Saute the mushrooms and onion in the second batch of butter in a large stock pot for about 8 minutes. While stirring, slowly add the flour and sugar, blending until mixture is very smooth. Add the stock, basil, rosemary and thyme, stirring until soup comes to a boil. Add the contents of the baked tomato pan from the oven and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer the soup for about 30 minutes. Meanwhile, in a food processor, blend the cream cheese, salt and pepper until smooth. Slowly stir the cream cheese into the soup. Garnish with chopped parsley. Yield: 12 hearty portions. |