With so much free time these days, I'm starting to watch more TV. Specifically, the Food Network. As a result, I've started to do more cooking. Not super fancy stuff, but more complex than usual.
For example, I got a receipe for tomato soup off the Food Network website. It involved canned tomatoes, yellow onion, carrot, celery chicken broth, cream, and so forth. Yesterday I whipped it up. It wasn't bad, but it was awfully rich. That was no doubt due to the 3/4 cup of olive oil and two tablespoons of butter the receipe called for, in addition to the cream.
So I went back to the store, got more ingredients, and tried again. This time I cut the olive oil to 1/4 cup, substituted skim milk for the cream, and added tomato sauce to make up for cutting the amount of carrot, celery and onion in half. When I was done it was less rich, but still too rich, to my way of thinking. The texture was disappointing as well. I have an immersion blender, which I used to puree the soup, but I think I need a regular blender to get really good results.
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2 comments:
Good for you, Johnny...I'm a big FN fan myself, I can especially recommend the "Good Eats" shows (hosted by Alton Brown). He does different cusine themes for each show, and explains the science behind the food/cooking, in fun and entertaining ways. It has inspired me to try things I never would have thought to do otherwise!
John, I think it is great--keep it up.
Dad
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