Soup 2: Sherried Tomato Soup

I fell in love with tomato soup years ago. Not when I was a kid, but shortly after college, when I hurt my jaw. I was on a liquid diet for several months and tomato soup became one of the main components of that diet (along with Jamba Juice, scrambled eggs, and protein shakes). It's about time I learned how to make it.

I found a recipe online at The Pioneer Woman's blog. It looked simple, and I loved the tone and pictures in the post, so I decided to try it first. Plus it has the added bonus of having lots of sherry and cream. How can you go wrong with that?

On Saturday evening, I began cooking the soup, taking pictures and cobbling together a blog entry as I went. The whole thing was pretty great if I do say so myself; it even included a few Alice in Wonderland inspired witticisms. Unfortunately, just as we were sitting down to enjoy the soup, we lost power. The lack of wifi meant that my Blogger app couldn't sync up with my online account. And for some reason this meant that Blogger ate my wonderfully constructed blog post. So you'll just have to click through that link up there if you want pictures and the recipe.

Suffice to say that the soup was delicious and super easy. It took about 45 minutes to pull together, and that was when I was taking time to take pictures. With better timing, I could probably get it down to half an hour, which makes it possible to make this almost anytime I want it.