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The most amazing & easiest homemade tomato soup ever!

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The most amazing & easiest homemade tomato soup ever!

In a delicious follow up to my Welsh Rarebit post... I will now tell you how to use any of that amazing leftover aged cheddar in the most amazing way. GRILLED CHEESE & TOMATO SOUP. You know you want some.  The two just go together. Like Tom & Jerry or Ponch & John or We Will Rock You & We Are The Champions - I should stop I am totally dating myself. The cheese was in the house and I still had a few slices of that amazing country bread but I needed tomato soup and had none in the...

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Welsh Rarebit - An odyssey in cheese.

Posted by Maureen Jones on

Welsh Rarebit - An odyssey in cheese.

It has been a while since I shared a recipe... Let me start this post by telling you for the longest time I thought it was Welsh Rabbit and being a veg for several years I ignored this recipe. I was wrong. No rabbits were harmed in the making of this recipe or post. Picture it...Rolling Meadows, just days before the big football game that is played in the beginning of February that we are not allowed to call what it is for fear of retribution by a large entity. Anyway I was flying solo and wanted a snack and...

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Scapes - the sequel!

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Scapes - the sequel!

The summer we have been blessed with about a million scapes.Okay maybe not a million, but way more than I can use to make hummus, no matter how much you love hummus when you are only using two per batch...so what to do with the other 900,000 scapes? I wasn't in the mood to can so I didn't want to pickle them so pesto it is... Pesto is actually pretty easy to do and there are about as may versions of how as there are stars in the sky (again probably a bit of a stretch). I based mine based...

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