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Grilled Pimento Cheese and Tomato Soup -- back to top

Meredith's parents were in town and we had been telling them about this meal so we decided to try to make it again. It was a group effort with the Huffsmith family helping.

Pimento Cheese:

We followed the same recipe as last time except that we halved it. There is a good bit of just playing involved and tasting the different things. We made the same changes as last time (including tabasco, smoked paprika, etc) but also subbed green onions for the cilantro/parsley since the store was out of it. We also again used a mix of actual pimentos and roasted peppers.

Meredith made the grilled cheese (pictured below) on sour dough (and each person got half a sandwich).

Tomato Soup

I again made the tomato soup in the Vitamix using the friction heating. We did not have leftover cobbler filling so I caramelized 1.5 onions and a shallot to then add. Again, a lot of it was to taste, but the ingredients were:

• 1.5 onion, caramelized
• 1 shallot, caramelized
• 1 pint fresh cherry tomatoes
• 1/2 a can (28?) tomatoes (leftovers)
• fresh basil (from the garden)
• 1/4 cup heavy cream (leftover)
• Buttermilk
  • Plus extra for topping
• water
• Better-Than-Bouillon
  • Could sub Osem to be vegetarian.
• garlic powder (very little)

I think that was it though I may have missed something. Anyway, we heated it in the Vitamix and got a very light, airy soup. I think the heavy cream got so beaten in this one which is why it was lighter feeling than last time. Still, very good!

Homegrown Tomato BLTs -- back to top

Note, I am writing this post on 2015-12-05, well after we made this. Anyway, these were the very last of the non-green home-grown tomatoes. Meredith had pulled most of the green ones off before the first freeze but she cut a few farther from the vine and let them ripen inside.

The tomatoes were good but not quite as sweet and flavorful as those ripened the entire time on the vine. Also, they had some funny shapes.

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BLATs -- back to top

We made B acon, L ettuce, A vocado, and T omatoes (BLATs). There wasn't much to it. We used the rolls I talked about yesterday. This worked well since we had leftover bacon from the other day plus some in the freezer (and we're trying to use up what's in there). We did the bacon in the oven as usual.

Of course, while making it we had a problem: The bacon for the BLAT went SPLAT!

Oh well! That's why they may 5 second rules. And when you use that, it's why they may 30 seconds rules!

Anyway, there wasn't much more to it. They were good but kind of hard to eat since the rolls were pretty thick.