The Tuscan Tomato Soup that was featured in the 01.13.10 notebook entry was, perhaps, one of the best bowls of soup I have ever eaten. I prepared it as was instructed except that I used half-and-half instead of the heavy cream that was listed in the ingredients. I noticed that the comments also recommended trying evaporated milk as a substitute for the cream. If you did that, the soup would be made entirely from pantry ingredients. You know that I adore a good pantry dish!
The ingredient that takes this soup to the next level is the addition of the pesto. It makes it so flavorful that you will have a hard time eating just one bowl.
We paired the soup with grilled cheese for dipping and my soup-hating family loved it. This is going into our meal rotation as a fun way to fancy up a good bowl of soup. Lucky for me, there was some leftover to pair with spinach salads for lunch!
Want to make the recipe? You can find the recipe over at this week for dinner!
Have you tried anything recently from the notebook? Please feel free to share links or feedback here!
This sounds wonderful. I am stocking up on soup ingredients today! I’d love having this with grilled cheese, too!
Steph
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I’m not a big fan of tomato soup, but you hooked me with the word “pesto.” I just might have to give this one a try!
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I love, love, love tomato soup. I’m definitely going to try this out.
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This sounds wonderful. I am stocking up on soup ingredients today! I’d love having this with grilled cheese, too!. handicappers
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I’ll probably try making this with 2% milk (or milk + reduced fat sour cream. Sounds lovely with the recipe, though. Thanks for the inspi!
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I know this post is a little older, but I had to come back to it and say I LOVED this soup – it was a hit last night with my husband and I. My kids not so much, but since we made little pepperoni tortilla “pizzas” to go with it, they didn’t starve. I used my immersion handheld blender which made it so easy. Just wanted to say I loved the soup and how easy it was to make and I love the notebook as well. I did sub in the half and half and reduced fat pesto.
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Amy Reply:
January 28th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
I am so glad you liked the soup!! I will have to look for reduced fat pesto- I had no idea that there even was such a thing. I did try the soup with 2% evaporated milk in a can and that worked beautifully too. Thanks so much for sharing your feedback!!
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so glad you loved this soup as much as I did! and you know what? I think I’m going to make it this week. forget the meal plan, this is just sounding so good right now…
thanks for the shout out! happy souping!
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