Ingredients

How to make it

  • In a large bowl open up cans of tomatoes and put into bowl.
  • Slice up bacon and place with a little olive oil into the cold soup pot. On medium heat, let bacon slowly crisp up.
  • While bacon is cooking, with own hands, carefully crush up tomatoes in large bowl - do your best not to squish onto yourself the tomato juices.
  • Once bacon is done, strain out bacon, but leave fat in.
  • Take diced up celery, carrots, onion and fresh ground pepper and let sweat in bacon fat till onion is translucent. Mmm getting there already! Sweat vs. sautée which means low to medium heat.
  • Add garlic, continue sweating (not you, but the vegetables) for two minutes, add "hand-crushed" tomatoes to pot.
  • Let simmer at least 45 minutes with cover on soup pot.
  • Taste and add salt as necessary. Let soup cool down considerably before attempting to putting it into blender to liquidfy all soup in order to avoid blender popping its top and making a mess in your kitchen. Using a hand blender is great too and you can do it while it's still hot.
  • Next add cream while heat is low. It's now ready to serve.
  • Serve with rustic bread grilled cheeses if you like, sprinkle fresh parsley, the grated cheese, sprinkler with bacon bits and voila - the perfect top notch creamy tomato soup!

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    " It was excellent "
    theiris ate it and said...
    As a tomato canner I could really use some good recipes to use some of them up before next season! This sounds wonderful! And who doesn't like bacon, nice surprise ingredient. Thanks, Mare
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    " It was excellent "
    noir ate it and said...
    I adore Creamy Tomato Soup anytime of the year! Great recipe! :)
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  • dandelion 17 years ago
    I haven't tried this one yet, but its on my list for this week. THX for posting it. When you say large cans of tomatoes, do you mean 28oz?
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  • rosemaryblue 17 years ago
    Great tomato soup recipe, especially with the cream! :)
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  • jenniferbyrdez 17 years ago
    I don't even like tomato soup, but I think I would like this one. Nice. Thanks.
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  • divaliscious 17 years ago
    Thanks so much for your comments! I love writing out recipes... many more to come..and if you like my writing, you can check out my other blogs at http://divaliscious.blogspot.com - feel free to check out the feng shui articles I recently put up...
    All funny, informative and typical me - warm regards!
    Leah
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  • peetabear 17 years ago
    this sounds great..I like your style of writing the directions.!!
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