“To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night,

all you really need is soup.” Laurie Colwin

So my next New Years Intention is soup. Sound silly? It probably is :) But I intend to make a new soup recipe every week ( I will post the recipe here). So the first soup of 2009 is

Tomato Roasted Red Pepper Bisque

1 onion quartered

2 red peppers halved and seeds removed

8 cloves of garlic peeled

olive oil

1 quart chicken stock

1 can of tomatoes

cream (if you want it creamy, this optional)

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place the onion, garlic cloves and red peppers on baking tray and drizzle with olive oil. Place in oven and bake for 20-30 minutes. Meanwhile in a soup pot add the chicken stock and canned tomatoes and heat over low/medium

When the peppers are done take them out of the oven and place them in a bowl and cover with saran wrap. Let them steam themselves (this helps the skins come off more easily). After they have cooled enough to handle remove and discard the skins. Put the peppers, onions and garlic in the pot with the tomatoes and cook for at least 20 minutes or as long as you want. Puree in a blender or with an immersion blender and add cream if using. 
This soup tastes really good with a piece of fresh buttered sour bread on the side!