It’s that time of year again. Home grown tomatoes are about to come on stream, and pretty much everyone you know will soon be beating a path to your door with a basket or two from their over abundant crop. Personally, I think there is nothing that can compare with the taste of tomatoes grown…
That was the comment hurled at me when I presented my youngest daughter with this soup. Let me explain. My Aunt (Mary) lives on the side of a windswept hill in the South Wales mining town of Abertillery. – simply, and diplomatically, not the most desirable of places – not the type of place where…
Apologies for the odd sounding title, but it’s the best thing describes this soup. I have seen recipes a plenty for roasted tomato soup, but the tomatoes in this were gently “poached” in a fruity olive oil before the other ingredients were added. It is a big flavoured soup, so its not for the faint…
There is no easy answer to this question I feel. Suffice to say like numerous other fellow foodies, I have them in abundance, and, try as I might, there are very few takers in these parts for gift baskets of the red orbs. Save the odd photo shoot or two, they placidly wait to be…
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