Ideally, I would have picked the tomatoes for this soup and stewed them down on a low simmer. I would have caught & plucked the chicken used for broth and set that on another low simmer. Not neglecting to milk my pet cow and a few coconuts too, I would have made sour cream, cocount milk and even the Cheeze-It ™ crackers from scratch. Eventually, finally, bringing it all together in a savory combination in one pot.
This is not an ideal world.
I have four children. (who all want something different for lunch, mind you)
I homeschool. (so I know about the dangers of using canned foods, I know!)
I kill plants. (No tomatoes would have likely made it to the picking stage under my care)
I don't know that the cow would be that much safer.
If I were close enough to a coconut tree to climb it, I wouldn't be rushing back to the house to make soup... (or climbing it either...but that is another story about how long it has been since I've been in the beloved Keys...and if I tell you THAT story, it will mostly sound like whining and I will become listless in my longing and neglect the reality of Everyone's Laundry...)
Therefore:
One can of coconut milk + One can of Harvest Orange Tomato + 1/2 Can of chicken stock= Tropical Tomato Soup
But, you can improve on this if you have the right ingredients.
(which I did, thanks to Chinese New Year)
Tropical Tomato Soup + Sriacha = Warm Tropics Tomato Soup...or Hot Tropics if you add a lot... Sun Burnt Tropics if you add half the bottle... and so forth.
This was my lunch... and it was tasty.
All of a sudden, my children decided they didn't want chicken fingers.
They wanted soup too.
So
I
was
forced
to
share!
Don't you hate it when all those lessons about doing the right thing come back and steal your lunch?