Tomato Soup & Korea

Once upon a time, I have a great friend named Kanaboke. She gave me a bottle of tomato soup she made a year ago. It was so yummy and fantastic!! We planted a tomato plant on purpose for the makings of soup on my own. Luckily, sweet Kanaboke invited me to make soup with her and her sister in law and a great friend of ours. We sure had an amazing time!


This is the load of tomato's we began with


The fixin's in the pot ready to be boiled


Kanaboke & Susi


Super sweet, surprised Cindy & Susi (Kanaboke & I didn't tell her I was coming!)


Kanaboke & Bob working the goods through the victorian strainer


Susi with the glorious goods!


Kanaboke & Cindy with their yummy garbage (the original veggies that come out of the strainer)


Completed soup! We ended up making 7 batches and each took home a grand total of 21 quarts. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!

I had my first serving of this delightful soup last night. It goes so well with grilled cheese sandwiches. My grilled cheese was made on multigrain bread. Oh it was divine! I just am so excited to get my own copy of this recipe and my own victorian strainer. It's so worth it to learn something new!


. . . and now. . . . for an update on why this week is so cool. . . I GET TO GO TO KOREA!!!! James called me Tuesday morning while I was getting ready to do to work. He told me that he would be going to Reno for a set up the 23rd & 24th of the month. Then he said that Korea wanted him to come the very next week. I told him that would be fine. He was very sweet and said, " I just hate to be away from you for so long." I told him again that I would be ok and that I needed to discuss the issue later, as I was trying to get to work on time. After I had gotten to work, I was feeling a little spunky. I sent him a text saying, " so how about I go to Korea with you?" He called me right away and from there it was history. He had his people check on everything and we've finagled a way to make everything possible. We will be flying out on the 25th and arriving home just in time for Halloween! WAHOOOOOO!!!!! James is going to be setting up a frog in Lotte World. It's an amazing indoor amusement park. (I guess. I haven't been there yet.) Anyway, the park has it's own hotel and a mall and all kinds of cool stuff. So hopefully, that will be fun. I think the part of the trip that I'm the most excited about is this. . . . The Seoul, Korea temple is going to be closed for cleaning the 13th through the 27th. It re-opens on the 28th and WE WILL BE THERE!!!! We will figure things out and James and I will go to a session! I am so super excited about that! Well, I think that's about it for now. I feel like I've run on and on. Much love to all my readers!