Tomato Cheese Soup

Ingredients

2 undrained
18 gr butter
2 stalks of celery
2 of garlic
1/2 sweet pepper
80 gr mushrooms
1 cooking onion
5 gr flour
4 gr sugar
1,900 ml beef stock
1 gr basil
1 gr rosemary
1 gr thyme
85 ml cream cheese
1 parsley for

Instructions

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: dozen hearty portions.