Tom's tasty tomato soup with brown butter croutons from The Dahlia Bakery Cookbook: Sweetness in Seattle: 125 of Our Favorite Recipes by Tom Douglas and Shelley Lance

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Notes about this recipe

  • ashallen on April 22, 2021

    This is a very easy, quick, and good-tasting soup. Flavors are relatively gentle/familiar, but we didn't find it to be boring. I substituted homemade chicken stock for the water called for in the recipe and would do so again. I didn't make the croutons, but I'm sure they'd be great and would add some crunch to an otherwise very smooth soup. Note that although the recipe says it yields 6 servings, portion sizes at that number of servings are modest (a bit more than 1 cup of soup) - if served as the center of a meal, this yields more like 3-4 servings for us.

  • Emily Hope on December 08, 2017

    Thanks to the EYB notes we ended up trying this soup and loving it -- delicious tomato soup for the winter months. I used two containers of aseptic packed diced tomatoes and that worked well--made it in the instant pot to speed up the process. We ended adding a bit more cream and some milk to thin it out. Perfect soup to go with a grilled cheese!

  • rivergait on August 24, 2015

    I would have never thought to look in my Dahlia Bakery book for a terrific soup, had I not seen wonderful reviews on EYB. Great soup! Looks like good-old Campbell's, creamy orange, but tastes fresh and pungent. I freeze single portions in flattened zip-loc bags.

  • cadfael on March 08, 2015

    One of my favourite simple soups.

  • Rutabaga on March 30, 2014

    A great, comforting soup, but be careful when adding the crushed chile flakes if you don't want it to taste spicy. I like to double the batch and freeze some.

  • lisachile on January 08, 2013

    Delicious and simple. Used an immersion blender instead of transferring everything to the blender. Yum.

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Reviews about this recipe

  • Fine Cooking

    Garnishing this creamy tomato soup with floating cubes of grilled cheese sandwich may make you feel all grown up, but once you start eating, suddenly, you're a kid again.

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