Tomato Cheese Soup

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Title: Tomato Cheese Soup
Categories: Soups/stews, Beef
Yield: 12 servings

28 oz 2 undrained and chopped 2 tb Butter
2 ea Stalks of celery diced 2 ea Cloves of garlic, minced
1/2 ea Sweet red pepper diced 2 tb Butter
1/2 lb Mushrooms, chopped 1 ea Large cooking onion diced
2 tb Flour 1 ts White sugar
8 c Beef stock 1/2 ts Basil
1/2 ts Rosemary 1/2 ts Thyme
3 oz Cream cheese 1 ea Salt and pepper to taste
1 ea Parsley for garnish

Place the tomatoes, with juice, in a buttered oven-proof baking dish. Add
the celery, garlic and red pepper and cover and bake in a 325 degree oven
for 25 minutes. Saute the mushrooms and onion in the second batch of butter
in a large stock pot for about 8 minutes. While stirring, slowly add the
flour and sugar, blending until mixture is very smooth. Add the stock,
basil, rosemary and thyme, stirring until soup comes to a boil. Add the
contents of the baked tomato pan from the oven and bring to a boil. Cover
and simmer the soup for about 30 minutes. Meanwhile, in a food processor,
blend the cream cheese, salt and pepper until smooth. Slowly stir the cream
cheese into the soup. Garnish with chopped parsley. Yield: 12 hearty
portions.

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