Tomato Basil Bisque

I’ve never made soup before so here we are. Cue swearing.

In a first for Cooking with Kelis, I was neither drunk nor hungover when I decided to do this – I was just really fucking bored.

I had spent the majority of the day trying to leave the flat but the allure of a bath and Harry Potter (I am currently making my way through the books – an other first for Cooking with Kelis) was very strong and very real. After a particularly long bath, detention with Professor Umbridge and several coffees later I finally made it out the door.

The ingredients for this hardly set the world on fire. Also I have finally got to a place where my ‘larder’ is now pretty full from all this Kelis bullshit. I no longer need to trawl the aisles looking lost.

There was however, shit loads of chopping and dicing to be had. The chopping and puréeing (that’s a word right?) of the tomatoes was an absolute joy.

Lovely colour, red.

The onion however for obvious reasons was a complete bitch – why go for the eyes man? C’mon onion, don’t be a bitch about it.

Once I was all chopped up and no where to go, there was nothing much else to do apart from actually y’know making the soup.

Look, I’m souping!

But there’s no fun is this was a success right? I of course forgot one ingredient: the basil. In my excitement of actually being outside, I over looked one key ingredient and ended up with Tomato Basil Bisque.

I mean, the clue is in the title.

Anyway after everything else was added it looked pretty banging and I don’t think it actually needed the basil cause in true Kelis fashion, there was a lot going on.

Careful bay

I was only in the kitchen for like an hour, which is nothing in the grand scheme of this blog so I was able to go back to the bath, read more Harry Potter and resent real life.

*Bread model’s own.

It tasted pretty good, maybe I didn’t ‘puree’ long enough (or maybe I’m just shit) but it would have made a gorgeous pasta sauce instead of a soup.

Still no clue what Bisque is.

Ross