• Crackers
• Roasted garlic
• Sausage Garnish
• Roasted Tomatoes
• Tomato Soup
• Garlic Soup

Country Living Fair - Autumn Soups - 2013

This content is created from notes taken at the 2013 Country Living Fair in Columbus, Ohio. Two soups made during the demonstration: tomato and garlic. Making crackers was also demonstrated.

Crackers

Make cracker dough in food processor.
One cup all-purpose flour.
4 tablespoons butter.
8 ounces grated sharp cheddar cheese
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper.
Fine grain sea salt (how much?).
Pulse ingredients in food processor.
Slowly add water while pulsing.
Pulse until consistency of wet sand.
Add approximately 3 tablespoons of water.
Leave dough a little crumbly.
Place cracker dough on parchment paper.
One big ball.
Shape into log.
Roll log in paper.
Place in frig.
Cold cracker dough log easier to slice thin.
After dough has chilled for how long?
Slice and place on baking sheet.
Bake at 400 degrees for 8 to 10 min until some browning.

Roasted garlic

(to be used with garlic soup)

3 heads garlic cut in half.
Place garlic halves onto tinfoil.
Add a few bay leaves (how much?).
Add 3 tablespoons of olive oil.
Garlic and above ingredients sandwiched between two pieces of tinfoil.
Foil sealed along edges.
Bake in oven at 350 degrees for 60 min.
Let garlic cool.
Squeeze garlic into a separate bowl.
Want garlic pasty.

Sausage Garnish

(to be used with garlic soup)

Pan on stove.
Tereso sausage .
Hard cured sausage .
Sliced thin.
Sausage in pan with olive oil .
Simmers on low for a few min to obtain a little browning.
Add sausage oil to garlic soup top. ??

Roasted Tomatoes

4 pounds of plum, beefsteak, or roma tomatoes.
Quarter the tomatoes.
Place on baking sheet.
Do not use parchment paper.

On top of tomatoes:
Sprinkle coarse sea salt.
Sprinkle teaspoon dried oregano.
Sprinkle teaspoon thyme.
Drizzle 3 tablespoons olive oil.
Drizzle 3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar.

Bake in oven at 350 to 400 degrees for 40 to 60 min.

Tomato Soup

While tray of roasted tomatoes in oven for 40 to 60 min, prepare rest of tomato soup ingredients.

Prepare in a pot on stove top:
melt butter.
add chopped onions.
Add chopped Oregano.
add the oven roasted tomatoes.
Cool five min on stove top .
Add chicken broth.
1/4 cup of heavy cream added at some point.
Purée with single element hand mixer or with food processor.
Once puréed, soup is done .

Garlic Soup

Pot melt 3 tblsp butter .
Onions .
Cook while roasting garlic.
One onion for both soups .
Add roasted garlic to pot of onions etc.
add tsp paprika.
Add sprig thyme to pot garlic soup.
Add chicken broth.
Entire carton (how man ounces?)
Simmer for 20 min
Back to garlic soup purée too.
Single hand mix tool.
(Can add one large potato to pot with onions part.)
Qtr cup cream added to each soup.
Soups use heavy cream

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