"Snowmagedon" as I heard many Facebook friends refer to it, began on Tuesday, February 11. Although it was by no means the end of the world, almost a foot of snow fell on the lovely city of Charlotte before the sun went down on Thursday. Our city, the largest in the state, has only four snow plows and NO way of really handling this kind of snow. In all my years living in NC, I've never seen it snow so hard for so long. It really did shut down the city and had me wishing that I had gone to the grocery store with the rest of the crazies to clear out the milk and bread aisle...both of which we ran out of!
The little one was in heaven! She spent the first day "shoveling" our back yard and Thursday we built a snowman. She was quite surprised at the amount of snow on the ground and how she would sink when she jumped in the snow. I know I'm biased, but she's pretty much the most adorable girl in the world!
After time in the cold, all I wanted for lunch was the same thing my mom always made on snow days growing up...grilled cheese and tomato soup. Here's were I had to get creative. The grilled cheese was handled, although this would be the last of our bread. But we had no actual tomato soup. I dug through the cabinets and came up with the following in which to put a concoction together...
Random ingredients to make my soup with. After all, my first chef in culinary school would say that soup is nothing but liquid with stuff in it. So here's the best at a recipe for you (note my lovely measurements for this one!)
Tossed Together Tomato Soup
1 can diced fire roasted tomatoes
1/2 jar tomato basil spaghetti sauce
3-4 c chicken broth; the more you put the thinner it will be
3-4 shakes across the pot of each of the following: shredded Parmesan
; thyme; rosemary; oregano; garlic salt and pepper
Looks like this in the pot
Perfect end to a perfect day!
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