tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398781353996043657.post1475635780534543852..comments2009-07-10T16:39:52.400+09:00Comments on The Monster Flower: Homemade Tomato SoupUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398781353996043657.post-30422490348852508052009-02-20T19:07:00.000+09:002009-02-20T19:07:00.000+09:00Hi, GirlJapan, and thanks for your kind words and ...Hi, GirlJapan, and thanks for your kind words and for commenting. Right now, I have a cold, and I made a big pot of this soup. It's an immensely good perk-me-up when you're sick. <BR/><BR/>I ran out of chicken consomme and made it with beef and it's just as good, though the beef cubes are smaller so I had to use 5 of them for a double batch instead of 4.Orchid64https://www.blogger.com/profile/07132543155589881288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398781353996043657.post-41520215024997129832009-02-20T14:29:00.000+09:002009-02-20T14:29:00.000+09:00Oh Orchid, you are teasing me here with good eats,...Oh Orchid, you are teasing me here with good eats, I envision a nice crusted toast with Gouda cheese melted.. as I dip away in that luscious bowl of soup. I like tats for their iron, and when I feel I am not getting enough veggies into my diet I drink 100%, sometimes I heat it up in the microwave and pretend I am drinking soup... ah.. lovely dish Orchid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398781353996043657.post-92103446691325411822009-02-19T15:33:00.000+09:002009-02-19T15:33:00.000+09:00Depending on how you look at it, it's both or eith...Depending on how you look at it, it's both or either. Botanically, it's a fruit because it is grown like a berry. In cooking though, it's a vegetable because it's not sweet. From a botanical viewpoint, anything with seeds is a fruit (including things like cucumbers).<BR/><BR/>"Vegetable" appears to be a non-scientific category of food. It's just an arbitrary way to separate food used in cooking one way from food that tends to be used another way. It's sort of like dividing foods into "main dishes" and "appetizers".Orchid64https://www.blogger.com/profile/07132543155589881288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398781353996043657.post-54277922449652638152009-02-19T15:05:00.000+09:002009-02-19T15:05:00.000+09:00Can you clear something up for me? Hubby and i are...Can you clear something up for me? Hubby and i are aguing about tomatoes at the moment. I say it's a fruit and he says it's a vegetable. He says he learnt in school that it was a vege, i learnt in school it is a fruit. When i've looked online no one gives conclusive evidence one way or the other.<BR/><BR/>I love tomato in salad but i am not a fan of it in soup or as a drink.Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11634221078922326881noreply@blogger.com