Homecooked: Roasted Tomato Soup
Soup on the menu is always so tempting, but every time I look at the price, I know that the cost of making the soup is a small fraction of the price of the soup. With the price of one or two bowls of soup, you can cover the cost of making at least 10 or 15 bowls of soup. What is worse is if the restaurant you're at mixes the soup it makes with pre-made soups, i.e. Campbell or Heinz soup - then you definitely know you're not getting your money's worth, and even worse, may not even satiate your tastebud with what you're going to eat. With the MCO requiring all dine in to close, I tend to not order soups online because I feel that with especially Western soups, spillage is more likely to happen - restaurants tend to pack Western soups in bowls instead of plastic bag packaging. I really missed Tomato soup, and decided to make it one weekend. The result turned out different, but better than expected. I'm not a fan of precise recipes and where there's no need ...