Sep14

Cooking with Kids: Homemade Tomato Soup (GAPS/SCD)

Posted on September 14, 2012 by earthmuffinmom

Last weekend the girls and I made tomato soup – some for supper and some for freezing. I love cooking with my kids. It’s a great productive task for them (away from TV!), and it gives us the perfect chance to “visit” and just be together. My littlest got her stool, my eldest found her station…and we all pitched in and worked…

Homemade Tomato Soup:

Ingredients:

roughly 40 tomatoes, cored and quartered

2 quarts of homemade beef stock (see Sally Fallon’s recipes at the bottom of the link here)

1 bunch of mixed greens (I used kale and dandelion greens – you can find dandelion greens at Whole Foods, or grow them in your garden like I did!)

1-2 large onions, chopped

3-4 stalks celery, chopped (I use the greens and all)

4 leeks, chopped (if you’re not familiar with using leeks, just chop the white part up and wash out dirt well. I suppose you can use the green parts but I didn’t here.)

8 carrots, peeled and chopped

5 cloves of garlic

1/4 c. fresh basil

sea salt and pepper to taste

coconut oil for sauteeing

Chop your veggies…

Even your small children can rip greens…

Saute your chopped veggies in the coconut oil (or olive oil)…

Add your broth…

Add tomatoes, greens and herbs, and seasonings… Bring to a boil, then turn down heat and simmer until your veggies are tender…for about a half hour.

Puree with a stick blender. If you don’t have a stick blender, you can do it in batches in the blender or food processor. For the size of this pot, this is the most handy. Watch for splatters though…

Voila! I had a lot of leftovers, which was my intent, and I froze the rest in several mason quart jars.

Kitchen scraps for the happy hens 🙂

This post was shared at The Morris Tribe’s Homesteader Blog Carnival; Simply Made Home’s Make a Move Monday; The Healthy Home Economist’s Monday Mania; The Prairie Homestead’s Homestead Barn Hop; The Better Mom’s Mondays Link Up; Real Food Forager’s Fat Tuesdays; Simply Sugar and Gluten Free’s Slightly Indulgent Tuesdays; Like a Mustard Seed’s Living Green Tuesdays; Cooking Traditional Foods Traditional Tuesdays; The Tasty Alternative’s Allergy Free Wednesdays; Kelly the Kitchen Kop’s Real Food Wednesdays; Frugally Sustainable’s Frugal Days, Sustainable Ways; The Nourishing Gourmet’s Pennywise Platter; GNOWFGLINS Simple Lives Thursday; Real Food Freaks Freaky Friday; Food Renegade’s Fight Back Fridays; The 21st Century Housewife’s Gallery of Favorites; Too Many Jars In My Kitchen’s Fill Those Jars Friday; Vegetarian Mamma’s Gluten Free Friday;

21 responses »

Looking Out The Window on September 15, 2012 at 3:21 pm said:

I could never figure out why a person needed a stick blender. Now I have one use it for all my salad dressings, soups and even lumpy gravy. Now I have another recipe to try with it. Nice post.

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- earthmuffinmom on September 15, 2012 at 7:35 pm said:
  
  Thanks 🙂 I love mine too!
  
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Yolanda on September 18, 2012 at 7:37 am said:

I love the photo of your daughter with the yummy bowl of soup. 😀

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- earthmuffinmom on September 18, 2012 at 10:27 pm said:
  
  Thanks! 🙂 She was pretty excited 🙂
  
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Paige @ Not Missing a Thing! on September 18, 2012 at 9:00 am said:

This looks so good! I can almost smell it. Im pinning it to try soon.

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Big mama on September 21, 2012 at 2:36 pm said:

It’s good the children learn the basics of cooking.The children look cute helping their Mom:)

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- earthmuffinmom on September 21, 2012 at 3:17 pm said:
  
  Thanks!
  
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Stephanie (@wbhomesteader) on September 25, 2012 at 7:06 am said:

Cute kids, great pics and great blog! And thanks for adding me to your blogroll!! I hear about GAPS all the time but I don’t know much about it. How do I know if I should go on GAPS?

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- earthmuffinmom on September 25, 2012 at 9:09 pm said:
  
  Thanks! I love your blog too! If you or your family is dealing with any type of allergies, asthma, autism/ADHD, autoimmune disease, well…I tell people it’s probably good for whatever ails you 🙂 but the food allergies, asthma, eczema etc. are our reasons for doing it. I’d read the book – I got it through the library the first time – and ended up ordering it because it was sooooo us. Have a great day!
  
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amber on September 25, 2012 at 1:47 pm said:

Such a great post…thanks for sharing with us on AFW. Have a great rest of your week.

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- earthmuffinmom on September 25, 2012 at 9:09 pm said:
  
  Thanks so much 🙂 You have a great week too!
  
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Stephanie Larsen on September 25, 2012 at 3:01 pm said:

I want to add your blog to mine (the wannabe homesteader)- should I add you under the Homesteading or Real Food/Traditional Cooking blogs section?

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- earthmuffinmom on September 25, 2012 at 9:10 pm said:
  
  Thanks! Either one would work although I probably have more under the Real Food/Traditional Cooking –
  Have a great day!
  
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Cindy (Vegetarian Mamma) on September 25, 2012 at 8:14 pm said:

This looks great, I love cooking with my boys! Thanks for linking up at our Gluten Free Fridays party! We had some fabulous entries this week! Our gluten free blogger directory is growing too! I have tweeted and pinned your entry to our Gluten Free Fridays board on Pinterest! 🙂 See you next Friday! Cindy from vegetarianmamma.com

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April @ The 21st Century Housewife on September 27, 2012 at 9:41 am said:

What great photographs – it looks like you all had fun, and the soup looks yummy too! I always loved cooking with my son when he was little, and we still cook together now he is older plus he can cook for himself too 🙂 I do like all the basil you used – what a fabulous soup!

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- earthmuffinmom on September 27, 2012 at 1:22 pm said:
  
  Thanks! 🙂
  
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21stcenturyhousewife on September 27, 2012 at 9:59 am said:

Your soup looks wonderful. I love all the delicious fresh basil you used. It looks like you all had fun making the soup. I used to love cooking with my son when he was little, and it was so worthwhile because not only do we still cook together now, but he has no trouble catering for himself either!

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Jill grant on May 5, 2013 at 9:38 am said:

How much soup does this make? It looks yummy.

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- earthmuffinmom on May 14, 2013 at 9:32 pm said:
  
  You know…I can’t remember. Sorry I’m not much help. I just made a bunch of it and either froze or canned it in the summer.
  
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waggore on June 11, 2013 at 11:32 pm said:

Beautiful photographs and great post!! I thought you may like this recent post, it’s very much along the same lines.

http://thisfineday.com/blog/2013/6/11/easy-recipe-photobook-starring-your-kids

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- earthmuffinmom on June 13, 2013 at 10:29 pm said:
  
  Thanks for sharing…very neat! 🙂
  
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