Every year after you have had your tomato canning weekend, the stragglers inevitably start to roll in.  These are the extra tomatoes that weren’t quite ready to be picked or are being offered to you by friends and family.  Typically you have made your salsa, stewed tomatoes and spaghetti sauce and you really can’t get your motivation ramped up again to do more canning so soon.  If you are like me, you hate the idea of all this great food going to waste.  What do you do with them?  Here is an easy way to save extra tomatoes without dragging out all that canning gear again.

Creamy Tomato Soup Mix

This is a great recipe that takes those extra tomatoes from the fall harvest and turns them into a easy to prepare creamy tomato soup mix that can be given away as gifts or saved for those blustery winter days. (more…)