Posts Tagged ‘tomato’

Tomato Soup (in the slow cooker)

March 16th, 2010

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Ingredients:

1 kg ripe tomatos, cut in half

1 400g tin tomatoes in juice,

drained 2 tbsp tomato paste

1 litre liquid chicken stock

2 tbsp sweet chillli sauce

1 onion, chopped roughly

2 tsp minced galic

3 tsp sugar

1 tbsp olive oil

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp dried oregano

How To:

1. Turn on slow cooker on high and preheat.

2. place onion and olive oil in a microwave safe dish and cook on high 2 minutes.

3. place all ingredients excluding tomato into slow cooker and stir to combine. add halved tomatoes and cover, cook on high for 2-3 hours or until tomatoes are soft.

4. Puree soup in a blender and season with freshly cracked salt and pepper. If desired garnish with a dollop of sour cream and parsley

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Tags: autum, Recipe, soup, tomato

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My Garden Pics…

October 29th, 2008

A pictures says a thousand words, so here are some pictures of my new garden.

Here are some tomato babies!!

Some other tomatos live in the garden part. They’re here. Also in here is a cucumber plant next to it (hard to see), and on the bottom level is lettuce, basil and tyme.

Close up of the baby lettuce!! SO cute!

We had a problem with the side of our house- it is majorly ugly. It’s tin, so we can’t put dirt up against it or it’ll rust, and we can’t dig out the dirt already there, cause it’s REALLY hard. SO we’ve put these tires there.

They look pretty cool next to each other (goes with the tin look), and will look better when there’s more of them.

They’re full of soil, so the roots can mess around in there for a while, and then when they’re stronger they can make it down into the hard soil.