![]() – Cream-optional: This was intended to be a cream of tomato soup, and you can, if you’d like, add cream at the end to taste. ![]() It simmers for 15 minutes (this is when you make the grilled cheese sandwiches) and blends smooth. – A simple base: Everything else is about simply layering in flavor - onions cooked in butter until sweet and lightly browned at the edges, garlic, pepper flakes to taste, a splash of sherry if that’s your thing, tomato paste, and any kind of broth you want to use, vegetable or chicken. And sweetness! Cream of tomato soup recipes add a little sugar, but I find that storebought grape tomatoes provide enough without it. This soup makes the argument that even bland, off-season cherry and grape tomatoes will provide more flavor and nuance than canned tomatoes and the proof will be in the bowl. I truly mean even the highly mediocre ones you might find on sale at a chain store in the dead of winter. No, I don’t mean glorious, peak-season cherry tomatoes from a garden or farm stand on a hot summer day save those for snacking or a salad. – Yes, grocery store tomatoes: If you, like me, buy cherry or grape tomatoes far more often than you use them up, this soup is for you. ![]() But this has eclipsed both in the rotation for the last couple winters, and a few things make it perfect for us: The second is excellent but fussy, more ideal for when you’ve got the time or patience to show off. Both of the archived recipes have their charms the first is great when tomatoes are at their peak. While this is not the Smitten Kitchen’s only tomato soup - there’s one with roasted summer tomatoes capped with an open-faced grilled cheese sandwich in the archives, and further back, a classic cream of tomato soup adapted from Cook’s Illustrated - neither are this: a seasonless tomato soup I can make on any rainy day, along with the nonnegotaible grilled cheese sandwiches, in under an hour.
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