Zucchini Bisque

Ingrediente

Put butter and olive oil in pot, add 3 diced onions (salt them), 3 diced carrots (salt them), and 3-4 diced celery stalks (salt them); let onions cook first

Roast zucchini; cut in uniform pieces, put in roasting pan with thyme sprigs, olive oil, salt, pepper, and garlic, want to get flavor out of zucchini; add fennel seeds too (toasted); cover with foil

Roast at 450 for 20 mins

Add 3 bouquet garnis to the mirepoix: 1 wrapped tightly of thyme, 1 of parsley, and 1 of basil

Cook mirepoix until it starts to caramelize (it will release juices and then will get dry), and then deglaze by adding white wine (til dry)

Add chicken stock and simmer

Roast tomatoes (early girl) in roasting pan without foil covering; add whole cloves of garlic, thyme sprigs, salt and pepper, roast at 450 for 20 mins Add

Add roasted veggies to soup; pull out thyme sprigs and some of the garlic; pull out and squeeze bouquet garnis through a strainer, squeeze tomatoes through a strainer; add oils from pans; puree