Showing posts with label BlendTech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BlendTech. Show all posts

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Roasted Tomato Basil Soup


It was another great year for tomatoes. The only problem was that they didn't all ripen at the same time, only in small groups. It meant that I didn't get to bottle tomatoes like I usually do, but it did give us the opportunity to try other things with our tomatoes, like this really great soup.

Ingredients:
For soup:
5-6 medium tomatoes, chopped in large chunks
3 medium tomatoes, diced
5 cloves of garlic, pealed
2 medium onions, chopped in large chunks
Dried basil
1/4 C milk or cream
1-1/2 tsp salt
Italian seasoning
Extra virgin olive oil
Grated Parmesan cheese
Sour cream

For cheesy biscuits:
1 pkg refrigerator biscuits (10 count)
Grated cheddar cheese

Coat your vegetable grill pan with olive oil. We have this amazing Misto sprayer that works beautifully for this.


Place the chopped tomatoes, onions, and garlic cloves on the pan. Season with olive oil, seasoning salt, and Italian seasoning.



Roast on your grill until the tomatoes are tender and the onion layers begin to separate.


Place in your blender and blend until finely chopped. (Yes, we had a minor incident with the blender.)


Transfer to medium sauce pan over medium heat. Add diced tomatoes, milk, salt, and at least one Tbl dried basil.



Heat until all ingredients are warm. Top with dried basil, Parmesan cheese, and sour cream. Serve with cheesy biscuits.



For the cheesy biscuits, preheat oven as directed on the package. Separate the biscuits and place on greased cookie sheet. Sprinkle liberally with grated cheddar cheese.


Bake per packaging instructions.

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Fresh Applesauce


As I begin writing up this recipe, all I hear in my head is Peter Brady quoting "Pork chopsh and appleshauce; ain't that shwell." If you don't know the iconic show The Brady Bunch or missed this particular episode, I hope you enjoy the clip.



Ingredients:

4 large Fuji apples, washed/cored/quartered
1 C water
1/3 C lemon juice
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/3 cup (or more, to taste) maple syrup


Place all ingredients in blender and pulse until it's the consistency you want.


Serve with your favorite meal (it's really good with pork chops) or just eat as a snack.


Printable version

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Tortilla Soup


A couple of weeks ago, my husband burned out our blender making smoothies. He's a really good smoothie maker, it's just that our blender was older and not really made for heavy-duty smoothie making. So, after much research and going over our budget, we invested in a BlendTec. We are now converts. It also came with this really good tortilla soup recipe.

Ingredients:
2 C warm water
3 small tomatoes
1 medium carrot
1" slice red pepper
1/4 avocado
1/4 medium onion
2 1"x1/2" chunks pepper jack cheese
2 sprigs fresh cilantro
1 tsp herb seasoning
3/4 tsp salt
3/4 tsp garlic powder
1/2 can black beans
1/2 can whole kernel corn
1/2 large can chunk chicken breast
Handful of tortilla chips


Add all ingredients to your blender/BlendTec jar in the order listed except the beans, corn, chips, and chicken.


Cover with lid. Blend on high (for the BlendTec, select "Soup"). Add chips, beans, and corn and pulse several times. Add chicken.


If you want it warmer, put in medium sauce pan and heat over medium heat.


Serve with tortilla chips.


Printable version
Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...