February 2012 - Brown Acres Custom Harvesting

Homemade Tomato Soup

This is another one of our favorites. This is even good in the summer. Of course it is very good with grilled cheese sandwiches.

Combine the tomatoes and baking soda in a small pan.

Combine the milk and half & half

Add the tomato mixture to the milk mixture. Add Butter, salt and pepper

Heat until butter is melted

Ingredients

1 (29 oz.) can or quart of Tomatoes, cut up
2 tsp. Baking Soda
3 Cups Milk
2 cups Half and Half
4 Tbsp. Butter
Salt & Pepper

Combine milk and half & half; over medium heat in large pot. Do not boil. In another small pan combine the tomatoes and baking soda; heat over medium but do not boil. Pour into milk mixture. Add the butter, salt and pepper to taste. Do not boil.

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Chicken Dumpling Soup

This is one of our favorite soups on a cold winter day. It makes a good meal in itself.

Dough Ingredients:
2 Cups Flour
1 Egg
1 tsp. Baking powder
1 tsp. Salt
Milk (I used 5 ounces) depends on dough consistency

Soup Ingredients:

6 cups water
4 medium potatoes
1/2 stick butter
3 tsp Chicken base
1 can cream of chicken soup
5 Cups Milk
1 Cup Cream
Salt & Pepper to taste
Shredded Chicken (from leftovers or a rotisserie chicken works great)

Directions:

Start boiling the water. Peel and dice the potatoes. Cook the potatoes in the boiling water and add butter, salt-and-pepper, chicken base, and cream of chicken soup. Cook 20 minutes. Meanwhile mix all dough ingredients. I use my KitchenAid mixer with the dough hook on speed 2. Make sure to scrape the bowl and mix until resembles a dough. Split the dough into 3 pieces. Take a piece of dough and split in half, roll each half into a long snake. When the 20 minutes are up add the milk, cream and chicken. Bring to a boil. Cut the dough into very small pieces over the boiling soup. Simmer 30 minutes or until done.

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The leftovers can easily be made into a great pot pie by adding some mixed vegetables and using 2 refrigerated pie crusts. Bake @ 375° for about 35 minutes or until golden brown.

Seed Starting – Herbs Update

I waited a little too many days to check my herbs I started on Wednesday. When I peaked on Sunday this is what I found…out of sight out of mind. I moved the basil to a windowsill and recovered the other herbs and placed them back on the freezer.