Tomato soup on a new level

A level of epic nastiness.

A couple days ago I tried to make some homemade tomato soup. This idea mostly came about because we did not have any cans in the house and I am way to lazy to drive to the store and get some. I called a friend who is a really good cook and who also happened to have a can of tomato soup on hand. She read me the ingredients, all of which I had in my house. All I needed was tomato paste, water, sugar and salt. It's amazing how easy it is to mess up the proportions, making something delicious taste like monster bile.

Part of the problem was that I underestimated how much water would be needed to make the tomato paste palatable. That stuff is crazy thick. The soup would have turned out okay if I hadn't decided I wanted to add milk to it. After mixing all the other ingredients together I dumped in some milk. It didn't mix in well. The milk was still separated and the rest was gritty. Which is never a word you want as a description for tomato soup.

Thankfully the spices I dumped in made it taste pretty good, once you got past the gritty, protein shake texture. I forced some on my brother and he didn't think it was that bad, but the rest of the family refused to try it. Not that I blame them. If I ever get a craving for tomato soup I think I'll just go out and buy some.

Or maybe just try this. (photo)