#FoodTuesday #tomatoes #shakshuka #vegetarian #writingprompt

First, I made some tomato soup that both was and was not a success.

My ingredients:

I melted some vegan margarine in a pot and added diced onion and cooked that until the onion was translucent. Then I added the herbs and spices, salt and pepper, and toasted them. Then I added the tomatoes with their juice, two cups of water, and a bouillon cube. I had a lot of time, so I cooked it low and slow.

Here’s where I went wrong: I’m too lazy and too clumsy to transfer hot soup to a blender, blend it, and put it back in the pot. So I just mashed the tomatoes with a potato masher. It was still pretty chunky, which was fine with me and Michael, but Sara doesn’t like tomato chunks. She liked the unchunky parts, but left the biggest chunks at the side of her bowl. Fair enough.

I have since bought an immersion blender so I can blend the chunks out right in the pot.

ANYWAY, I had some chunky tomato soup left, and the tag ends of the yellow squash and zucchini that #1 Daughter gave me, so I chunked those up and put them in a skillet with the tomato soup and added some water. I broke an egg in the center and cooked it until the egg white was done and most of the liquid was gone from the squash/tomato mix.

I don’t know why my food pictures are coming out so dark all of a sudden. It isn’t as if I adjust any settings. I have what my late husband called a PHD camera: Push Here, Dummy.

It was good, anyway.

A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: Chunks

MA