Modified Tomato Soup (a.k.a. "Nicole Dunn...I believe in you and your abilities")

Christmas is in two days. No point to go the market now because my family will just stuff me with holiday food until I puke it out on New Years's Eve so I improvise with what I have until my next market run: Tomato Soup, Sriracha, green onions and Gorgonzola-Bleu cheese. Like I've mentioned in the last blog, your appetite makes you creative. Modified Tomato Soup Ingredients: 1 quart of Trader Joes Tomato Soup-$1.99 5-6 slivers of Gorgonzola-Bleu Cheese-Varies (Mine was $2.57 for a wedge) 2-3 Green Onions-$1.99 2 teaspoons of Sriracha (You should already have it.) 1 teaspoon of olive oil (You should already have it.) Total: $7.00 or less.

Instructions: 1. Pour soup into a sauce pan and cook at low-medium heat for 10-15 minutes until it comes to a slow boil. Stir in a few shots of Sriracha. Blend in the heat. 2. Grab a cooking sheet pan and base with olive oil. Heat oven to 200 degrees. Once the oven is ready, make 5-6 tiny piles of cheese and place them separately on the cooking sheet. Pop in the oven once the heat is I like the idea of taking any kind of cheese wedge and toasting it for everything. Crisped cheese tastes way better but it gives any dish an amazing presentation and extra taste note that compliments the main meal-even regular tomato soup. 3. For the green onions, take a parring knife and slice upwards on the stem. Try to get pieces that curve in because...presentation is sexxxyyyy. 4. Remove cooking sheet from oven and allow cheese to cool down for 5-10 minutes. While 5-10 minutes pass, go do some good in this world and pour yourself a glass of wine. You deserve it. 5. So the soup is simmering, the sexy onions are cut and now its time to break the crisped cheese euphoria. Using a spatula, break all cheese crisps into small chunks. 6. Pour soup into bowl and place 3 strips of curved green onions on top. Then carefully grab two tiny stacks of crisped Gorgonzola and place on top of the green onions. Try to imagine Jack and Kate from Titanic hanging on the floating door in the icy Atlantic; one is kinda hanging on for dear life in the water and the other is hanging above the water. 7. Add a few garnish drops of Sriracha on top and you are ready to eat your sexy presentation. Have a great holiday and happy new year! I'll start posting up new recipes next year but in the mean time: take care of yourselves, drink (somewhat) in moderation, eat until "you start to hate yourself" (Erik Nielsen said that, not me), and always modernize and modify your appetite. Cheers!