New Recipe - Easy Oregano Tomato Soup

Hello. C J here. Rarely does a recipe for my work come together the first time. Rarely does a recipe pass both of my tests at once without me making it more than once. First test, I don’t feel sluggish after eating it. Second test, it goes well with caffeine. This one did both. I got this recipe from a cookbook I own and altered it to taste as I made it. I’ve written down the new steps here so I can make it again. It’s an amazing oregano and tomato soup, a variation of the classic tomato basil soup.

Ingredients
One Onion
One Tablespoon Minced Garlic
Three Tablespoons Canola Oil
One Can Crushed Tomatoes
One Cup Chicken Broth
One Half Cup Cream
One Half Teaspoon Salt
One Tablespoon Pepper
One Tablespoon Oregano

For the Tomato Oregano Soup
Peel and chop the onion. In a large soup pot fry the onion for five minutes until translucent. Add the garlic and tomatoes.

Simmer for five minutes then add the chicken broth and cream. Add the salt, pepper and oregano. Simmer for another five minutes.

Serve hot.

Company Updates

I’ve also got some company updates for today. I’m making sushi today as well so expect another post here when I’ve got that done. The rice is just cooling now. I’m working this week on finalizing Cooking With a Wolf, my first cookbook, including the hand drawn art I’m doing for the cover. After that I’m finishing my tabletop miniatures game Dominion. Cooking With a Wolf and Dominion are the only two core manuals I haven’t finished for the entire company.

After that it’s over to marketing. I’m returning to YouTube to market with new YouTube video content. I’m on there somewhere from ages ago when I was practising with the medium. I did some parodies of popular game settings and also a few food videos. I’m also still working on making that Discord group for the company. These two things should work well together. Past here the whole setting needs to be built including the food for the recipe cards for the card game.

Having a Discord group means I can take suggestions from people including people who find me through my video content. People will have input about what needs to be done first, what food we want a recipe for next and what in the setting needs to be cooler sooner. I’m calling this the Collaborative Setting Project. I want a setting for stories that everyone has a hand in designing so they can tell the stories they want there, regardless of whether that’s by playing one of my games or by working with me as a collaborator. But first it’s time to check on the sushi rice.

C J Mcpherson

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