Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, tomato vegetable soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Tomato vegetable soup is a simple, comforting and tasty way to eat more veggies. And you can make it on the stovetop or in your Instant Pot.🎉. So we were pretty much stuck in the house most of last. Tomato soup is a soup made with tomatoes as the primary ingredient.

Tomato Vegetable Soup is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Tomato Vegetable Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have tomato vegetable soup using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Tomato Vegetable Soup:

1. Get 3 tbsp olive oil, extra virgin
2. Make ready 2 small onions, finely minced
3. Get 1 large red bell pepper, finely minced
4. Get 5 clove garlic, finely minced
5. Prepare 3 tbsp salt
6. Make ready 1 tbsp onion powder
7. Prepare 1 tbsp garlic powder
8. Get 1 tbsp black pepper
9. Take 2 can 28oz. whole peeled tomatoes
10. Take 3 stick celery, sliced thin
11. Get 3 stick fennel, sliced thin
12. Make ready 6 small carrots, sliced thin
13. Prepare 1 can 14oz. artichoke hearts, quartered
14. Make ready 2 cup baby kale
15. Take 1 cup freekeh

Homemade roasted tomato basil soup with garlic, olive oil and caramelized onions. Delicious, flavorful and the best way to use up garden tomatoes! This Tomato Rice Vegetable Soup is undeniably full of flavor, a warmth that screams comfort and the perfect acidity from the tomato sauce. To make the flavor even richer, I added chili powder, oh my.

Instructions to make Tomato Vegetable Soup:

1. In an 8qt stock pot, toss in the oil, turn it to low, and, when up to temp, add in the onions.
2. Let it simmer a few minutes until the onions have reduced a little, and then add in the red pepper, garlic, and salt.
3. Add the onion powder, garlic powder, and black pepper only after the mixture of veggies has softened and reduced a bit. Onions should be translucent.
4. Let the flavors marry a few minutes, and then add the tomatoes.
5. Turn the heat up to high, stir thoroughly, and bring the tomatoes to a decent boil.
6. After a few minutes, the tomatoes should be soft, so turn it back to low and mash the tomatoes to oblivion with one of those masher mauler potato masher tools.
7. Bring it to medium heat, stir in the celery, fennel, carrots, and artichokes, and let it all marry a little.
8. Now stir in the baby kale and freekeh, reduce to low heat, and the soup is cooked when the kale has given up the ghost and the freekeh is soft like cooked barley. Add additional salt and pepper to taste, and serve.

This Tomato Rice Vegetable Soup is undeniably full of flavor, a warmth that screams comfort and the perfect acidity from the tomato sauce. To make the flavor even richer, I added chili powder, oh my. This tomato soup is excellent with canned tomatoes. I love using whole peeled tomatoes or crushed tomatoes. By the way, we love San Marzano Tomatoes and are always pleased with tomatoes from.

How to Improve Your Mood with Food

A lot of us believe that comfort foods are terrible for us and that we have to stay away from them. Often, if your comfort food is made of candy or other junk foods, this holds true. Other times, comfort foods can be utterly nutritious and good for us to eat. There are several foods that, when you consume them, can boost your mood. If you seem to feel a little bit down and need a happiness pick me up, try some of these.

Eggs, believe it or not, can be truly great at dealing with depression. You must be sure, though, that what you make includes the yolk. The egg yolk is the part of the egg that matters most in terms of helping elevate your mood. Eggs, the egg yolks particularly, are high in B vitamins. B vitamins can really help you raise your mood. This is because they help your neural transmitters–the parts of your brain that dictate your mood–work better. Try eating an egg and cheer up!

Put together several trail mix of nuts or seeds. Almonds, cashews, peanuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, etc are all good for raising your mood. This is because seeds and nuts have a lot of magnesium which increases your brain’s serotonin levels. Serotonin is a feel-good chemical substance that directs the brain how to feel at any given point in time. The more of it in your brain, the happier you’ll feel. Nuts, along with bettering your mood, can be a great source of protein.

If you would like to overcome depression, try consuming some cold water fish. Cold water fish such as tuna, trout and wild salmon are high in DHA and omega-3s. Omega-3 fatty acids and DHA are two things that improve the quality and the function of your brain’s grey matter. It’s true: consuming a tuna fish sandwich can really help you overcome depression.

Grains can be good for overcoming a terrible mood. Quinoa, barley, teff, millet, etc are all good for helping you be in a happier state of mind. They can help you feel full for longer also, which can help your mood too. It’s easy to feel low when you are starving! The reason these grains elevate your mood is that they are easy to digest. You digest these foods quicker than other foods which can help promote your blood sugar levels, which, in turn, helps make you feel more pleasant, mood wise.

Green tea is wonderful for moods. You just knew green tea had to be in this article somewhere, right? Green tea has a lot of an amino acid known as L-theanine. Studies have discovered that this amino acid essentially stimulates brain waves. This will improve your brain’s concentration while simultaneously loosening up the rest of your body. You knew that green tea helps you feel better. Now you know green tea can help raise your mood as well!

Now you can see that junk food isn’t necessarily what you have to eat when you are wanting to help your moods get better. Try some of these suggestions instead.