Roasted Vegetable and Tomato Bisque

Preheat your oven to 375°. Scrub the vegetables then cut them in chunks into a big bowl. Drizzle with a generous amount of good quality extra virgin olive oil and season with a good seasoning blend. Pour onto a big baking sheet covered in parchment paper.

2 big carrots

1 green pepper

2 big celery stalks

1 sm.-med beet

1 big purple shallot

2 med. Yukon Gold potatoes

16oz. bone broth
28oz. San Marzano tomatoes

1 jar tomato pesto
1 can coconut milk

8-12oz.± water

Roast the vegetables 35-40 minutes until they're browned lightly. Put about half into your blender jar along with some bone broth and about half of the tomatoes. When well blended, pour into a 6 quart pot. Repeat until all the roasted vegetables, bone broth and tomatoes are well blended and in the big soup pot. Check the seasonings and add 1T sugar. Whisk in the coconut milk, tomato pesto and zest of one lemon. 

Top with some fresh chopped parsley, basil or dill.

This was really good with cottage cheese-almond flour-cheese biscuits I made the other day.

Ahhh soup! For me, 'soup season' is 12 months of the year. .😊. .Lin

Salmon and Spiralized Vegetables + Tomato Pesto Dill Cream Sauce

First, spiralize the 3 zucchini and 1 big rose-orange sweet potato. The vegetable noodles will be very long. Cut them with a scissor if you'd like, then put it in a big roasting pan. Drizzle with 3-4T EVOO and sprinkle with 1t Himalayan pink salt. Roast this uncovered in a 325° oven for 20 minutes. Put this in a smaller baking dish as the bottom layer.

Meanwhile make the sauce. Begin by sautéing the first chopped vegetables in 2-3T EVOO over medium heat, then add the next ingredients. Simmer over low heat until soft, about 40 minutes, then remove from the heat and let it cool 15 minutes or so...

1 lg. purple shallot = 2c chopped

ends of the spiralized vegetables

1/4 lg. green bell pepper

5 big garlic cloves

1T dry parsley

1/3c tomato pesto

1t Penzeys Smoky 4/S

28oz. crushed tomatoes

1t Himalayan pink salt

2T dark Balsamic vinegar

1t sharp Hungarian paprika

Top left filet is skinned

While the sauce is simmering, put 20oz. of salmon filets grey skin side down in a non-stick pan. Slowly heat them until the color changes just a bit. Remove them from the heat, remove and discard the skin. 

Arrange the fish over the vegetable 'noodles.' Add a thin layer of the sauce as it is now. Set aside 1c. After 5 minutes or so, to this cup of cooled sauce, add sour cream, dill and stir this together. 

Shown before final 15 minute heating

2/3c whole fat sour cream

2t dry dill

Spoon the dill cream sauce over everything.Refrigerate the unused tomato-vegetable sauce to use over baked chicken, plain pasta or spaghetti and meatballs, in the future. Cover the sauced fish and vegetable noodles. Heat in a preheated 300° oven, 15 minutes or so before serving. . .Lin