Canned food is the gift of the gods!

[wiseheart]

Today, I made an excellent tomato soup, using canned chopped Italian tomatoes, canned pureed tomatoes and canned tomato juice. Adding some leftover cooking cream, an pinch of salt, a pinch of pepper, some sweeteners, some lemon juice and a pinch of paprika for the taste. The whole was based on half a tablespoon flour, half a tablespoon sunflower oil and half a tablespoon pureed onions from the tube and seasoned with parsley. Which I also bought cut and dried and ready to use.

Real gourmets would die from outrage, I know. But it cut down cooking time to half an hour, which meant that I had time left to make a sorry excuse of a Russian Creme Torte, using cream powder sold in pre-packaged form and Granny's idiot proof sponge cake. It has probably nothing to do with the original, as I didn't check an accurate recipe and thus left out the candied fruits and raisins, but since we aren't great fans of those, I think we'll be quite happy with the dumbed-down mini version.

There'll be a pic tomorrow; I'm just too ashamed to put it into the same entry from where you you can go to the real item. *g*

Other than that, I've finished re-reading "A Murder is Announced", translated half a page, took Mum to church and performed the final touches (aka decoration) on six Russian dolls. Oh, and I printed out some sheet music, since choir life will re-start with a vengeance on Monday (with the Oldies) and Tuesday (with the main choir), respectively.

Comments

[manue7a.livejournal.com]

Pureed onions from the tube? Never seen this around here. Good, I'm afraid I'd eat it right from the tube :D

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

We've both pureed onions and garlic awaible in tube, which is a good thing, as I no longer have to cry why cooking. My eyes are quite sensitive against onions. When I was working in the cloister kitchen, I sobbed for days over the peeling of onions, until Schwester Betha reassigned me to the blessedly harmless cauliflowers. *g*

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

Canned tomatoes are IT! And tomato paste.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

We know how to live, don't we? *g*

[meathiel]

Nothing wrong with canned goods sometimes - I have to admit we use canned tomatoes for pasta sauce as well.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I've made tomato soup fresh from scratch exactly once never again. It was a dirty, tedious job, took all morning and the result completely lacked any taste.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

Girl, that's my kind of cooking! That soup sounds yummy to me.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It is very yumny indeed. And fast to make!

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Coincidentally, I have tomato rice soup on tonight's menu! Also use canned tomatoes--this time of year they have much more flavour than the fresh ones, at least here. I use a very finely chopped carrot for sweetness--it works. Unfortunately, the creme torte is not on my menu , nor is it in my repetoire. :( You really have such full days.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

My version of the Russian Creme Torte is idiot proof, since I made the creme "aus der Tüte", as the Germans would say, and I used Grandma's sponge cake that never goes wrong... unless you forget to take it out of the oven. *g*

Grandma's sponge cake is the easiest thing I can imagine.