I am getting so good at soups. There. I said it. I am a soup machine these days. And, I’m doing them all on my own without recipes. Don’t mind me, I’m just over here layering and building flavors with things I have on hand. I AM SO PROUD OF MYSELF. I’m calling this soup, “Roasted Heirloom Tomato and Garlicky Beef Rice Soup.” So creative, I know. There is only one way to tell you how I did it and it is called FREESTYLE. Throw in a little of this, a little of that, and close that recipe book. Build those flavors, people. Let’s freestyle together, shall we? I had 6 or 7 Jones Valley Teaching Farm green tomatoes that ripened on my kitchen…
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Waaaaaay back last week (when we didn’t have three days to plan and live our lives), I forgot to harvest the kale and collards from Jones Valley Teaching Farm that I wanted to use in this recipe. HOWEVER, I remembered the half-used bag of Brussels sprouts just sitting in my fridge. Waaaaaaaay back last week, I had plans to come home and shave them, toss them with toasted walnuts, pecorino, and a pancetta vinaigrette. Did that happen? Nope. There they were all week just staring at me. As I was prepping this morning and feeling guilty about the Brussels sprouts, I decided to get rid of the guilt and just slice them very thin and pretend they are the kale and collards I forgot to harvest.

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