Bringing home the bacon, and using it all up

If you read my blog yesterday, you saw what I made myself for breakfast. I didn't mention that we had a few slices of thick bacon leftover from our Valentine's dinner risotto.

Since I didn't have big breakfast yesterday, and my breakfast didn't include bacon, I decided to use the bacon tonight. It was either that or freeze it. I thought it might taste good sprinkled over a bowl of tomato soup. It's also one of my favorite pizza toppings. I happened to have a slice of bacon pizza leftover from last week. I figured it wouldn't hurt to throw a few more pieces of bacon on it.

I used the bacon on a small bowl of soup and the slice of pizza.

I was actually surprised that the bacon bits weren't as good as I thought they would be on the tomato soup. Fortunately the grilled cheese croutons (yes, grilled cheese croutons) are holding up just fine and they made the soup.

Okay, so grilled cheese croutons. They are exactly what they sound like. Make grilled cheese the way you normally do, let it cool, then slice it into crouton size pieces. Serve over hot tomato soup.

In the case that you made too many grilled cheese croutons, refrigerate them and when you're ready to use them reheat them in your toaster oven or regular oven. Enjoy.

I started out being thankful for the bacon, but I think I'll end it by being thankful for grilled cheese croutons. Because grilled cheese croutons are so obvious and make the tomato soup world complete.

All About Soup

I've mentioned that I've been making soup. Fall is soup season. I'm not making that up. Pioneer Woman says so, it must be true. Here's her post about soup.

I thought I had mentioned all the soups I've made so far, but I forgot a few. Let's see how many I can remember. So far this fall I have made:

Ribolita
Creamy Carrot
White Chicken Chili
Creamy Artichoke
Cheesy Potato
Creamy Tomato
Chili Verde
Corn Chowder
Fall Harvest

Hm, I think that's all. One a week since mid-September… That's about right. I'm making Chicken Tortilla soup tomorrow. And PW reminded me of French Onion and Broccoli and Cheese. Bill mentioned that we can go buy ingredients for his chili.

Yup, it's soup season.

This is better (for our health) than pasta season.

Don't worry, that's next.