Burning Orbit Tomato Soup
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TypeStarter
Serves4 people
DateAugust 20, 2026
Oval tomato soup with toast-telescope sinking toward fiery edge, cheese flashes as a final cosmic salute.
A warm, comforting tomato soup in an oval dish (Swift’s orbit), with a charred toast (the telescope) drifting toward a fiery paprika-and-oil rim (the atmosphere). Cheese streaks represent gamma-ray bursts. Disaster on the plate, comfort in the bowl.
Ingredients
- 1 kg ripe tomatoes
- 2 red bell peppers
- 1 onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 liter vegetable stock
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp smoked paprika powder
- 4 slices sturdy bread
- 100 g grated cheese (mild)
- 1 tbsp butter
- salt and pepper to taste
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200°C.
- Roughly chop tomatoes and peppers. Place with onion (quartered) and unpeeled garlic cloves on a baking tray. Drizzle with 1 tbsp olive oil and roast for 25 minutes.
- Peel the garlic and place all vegetables in a pot. Add the stock and bring to a boil. Simmer gently for 10 minutes.
- Blend the soup smooth with a stick blender. Season with salt, pepper, and paprika powder.
- Cut bread slices into long oval shapes. Lightly butter and toast in a pan until one side is well charred.
- Divide soup among a large oval dish or four deep plates. Place a toast piece on each, charred side up, drifting toward the edge.
- Sprinkle grated cheese as flashes around the toast. Drizzle extra olive oil and paprika powder along the edge for a fiery effect.
Serving notes
- Serve directly from the oval dish for a space effect.
- Let the toast partly sink into the soup for the ‘burning’ effect.
- Garnish with extra cheese for more ‘flashes’.