Sep 03 2015
More crazy weather here in Ohio, Usually in September we
start getting cooler weather. The past few days it has been 85 deg. and today
was 90. It is not really soup weather but that is what I fixed for supper.
Cheeseburger soup has been around for a while; I love
cheeseburgers but had never tried the soup. I found a recipe that added bacon
to and I had some jowl bacon to use. I don’t have any more garden tomatoes that
will ripen for BLT’s so might as well try the soup.
I did find two green tomatoes that were good to fry and
thought they would be good with the soup. I made the soup in my CI Dutch oven
outside on my gas burner. I had my bacon cut up and the veggies all diced and
ready to go. I started at 5:30 and figured on eating at 6:30 but it was a
little after 7:00 before I got it all done. I didn’t figure that too well.
I had just over a pound of bacon and diced half of it about ¼
inch wide to use for topping. I fried two large slices to use as bacon wafers
in the soup. The other half I diced 1 inch wide for in the soup. The jowl bacon
is a little fattier so I removed most of the fat not per the recipe. I also had
ground chuck to use instead of lean beef. I omitted the jalapeno and cayenne
pepper too
I did the soup all but the cheese outside then took inside
on a low burner while I fried the green tomatoes. I had dipped the slices in
seasoned flour, egg and then Panko crumbs and in the fridge a couple hours to
set up. I had the skillet right this time and got the green tomatoes fried
well. I had added bacon grease to the skillet to fry them in.
Broth, cheese, cream and veggies
Bacon for the topping
Frying the bacon wafers
Bacon for the soup
Browning the beef
Veggies added, cooked until soft
Broth added and simmered 20 minutes
Cream and flour added
Green tomatoes fried in bacon grease
My supper
No comments:
Post a Comment