Diva Desserts: Big Yum Chocolate Chip Cookie!

Monday, August 23, 2010

Big Yum Chocolate Chip Cookie!

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THE OLD GEEZERAugust 26, 2010 at 4:24 PM
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Soup for Dad

The Roasted Tomato & Pepper Soup is a recipe close to my heart. It was originally created last summer when I needed to do something with all the tomatoes I was harvesting from my garden. After all the salsa and pasta sauce I could can I looked for new ways to use my produce. Ultimately I came up with the Tomato soup and it grew into a labor of love because my dad who was dying loved the soup. So I started making it for him.

My dad and I for years have competed to see who grew and picked the first tomato each season. Last summer was the first time I had my own house and vegetable patch, before I would grow tomatoes in pots on porches, patios, and sidewalks where ever I could. Well with my own land I went a little crazy and planted 25 tomato plants I had started from seed. It goes without saying I was swimming in tomatoes!

Because my father was dying of lung cancer he was not up to the tomatoes challenge last summer. Mom planted the tomatoes for dad, several of which were some of those I had started from seed. He too tired to garden but enjoyed going out to visit his veggies as often as he could.

He was never well enough to visit me and see the veggie garden I had created. In fact he only ever saw our house once while we were refinishing the floors and before we moved in. That was the last time my dad came to Columbus. I am thankful for that trip.

End of August and the crop was coming in and believe me it was a crop! My dad was growing weaker. He had good days and bad, good weeks and awful months. I took my crop and tried a variety of recipes and developed this roasted tomato - pepper soup. The cancer and the chemo took most of the joy and taste of food away from my dad. Nothing sounded good to him or tasted good to him. I was constantly taking things home trying to tempt him to eat. One weekend I took him this soup. He wanted to try it right away.

Cold or hot it did not matter he wanted it. And he loved it, he could taste the flavors and he ate, and he ate, bowl after bowl, pints of my soup. In the end he wanted nothing but my soup. Days when he would not eat anything mom was always able to encourage him with a bowl of the Tomato-Pepper soup. Even if it was only a bite or two just to please her.

I intended to can a whole bunch of the soup for the winter but I was more than glad to carry it home to my father who eventually passed in October. I would have made him all the soup in the world if it could have cured him but I am glad to know it brought him some joy in the end, however small. I hope you will enjoy it too.

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Monday, August 23, 2010

Big Yum Chocolate Chip Cookie!

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Soup for Dad

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