Product Review: Wolfgang Puck Creamy Tomato Soup

There is nothing like a grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup on a negative something degree day in Minnesota. So today I made myself a grilled cheese and opened up this can of Wolfgang Puck Creamy Tomato Soup. Doesn't it look tasty with a dollop of crème fraîche and some green onion?

All I can say about this soup is “Yum-O-Rama”! It was so fresh tasting! I am a big believer in making things from scratch, but if you need a quick meal this can’t be beat. At $3 or so a can it is not the cheapest soup in the store, but it has an ingredient list that you can actually read and a taste you wont find in most restaurants. I pan to stock up, because sometimes you need grilled cheese and tomato soup on a 90 degree day in Minnesota too!

French Friday's with Dorie: Paris Mushroom Soup

As I said in an earlier post I have joined a group called French Fridays with Dorie. Together we are working our way through Dorie Greenspan’s book “Around My French Table”(AMFT). This week's recipe is Paris Mushroom Soup (page 72). It was a fairly simple recipe to make. Next time I need to refine my technique, but it came out very well.

The recipe calls for making a “salad” and putting the soup over it. I quite liked the play of textures that gave. To go along with the soup we had Levain Bread from Rustica Bakery with White Bean Dip from Surdyk’s. It was a lovely accompaniment!

Now the soup was supposed to have crème fraîche on top of it and Dorie has a recipe for it on page 491. I had all the ingredients so I made some. I suppose that means this was the first recipe I made from AMFT, but we will just let that go. When I checked it yesterday morning it didn't seem right. So I bought some when I was out yesterday afternoon. Well I completely forgot to put it on the soup! Then, last night, when I checked the crème fraîche I had made at home it seemed ready. It has a more sour smell than the store bought, but it tastes about the same. The only problem is that now I have a lot of crème fraîche to use up!