Roast tomato, leek and risoni soup

People who live in the southern states might not believe me when I say its been cold here in Queensland the last few weeks, but it has. Any time I complain of the cold here I am think of how thankful I am that I don't live in Melbourne or Tasmania anymore (I've lived in both places and found both incredibly cold). Whenever I am cold I immediately crave soup. When I made this soup recently is one of those cold days where I craved soup, but wasn't in the mood for my usual favourite, minestrone.

This soup was born out of randomly pulling things out of the fridge and cupboard. I started out with tomatoes and thinking that I would roast them for the soup base (I love the flavour of roasted tomato, it gets this wonderful intensity) and after putting the roasting pan filled with tomatoes in the oven I decided I would add leeks, so pulled it out, added the leeks and returned it to the oven to roast slowly.

Then, after roasting the tomatoes I added them to my soup pot, added the stock and basil, blended everything with my bamix and then suddenly decided I would add some risoni. I love the combination of tomato and pasta and I thought the risoni would give the soup a wonderful texture.

The end result was a beautifully rich and intense tomato, leek and risoni soup. It was perfect served with some tomato and basil bruschetta.

So, does anyone else randomly pull things out of their fridge and cupboard whilst cooking and stumble across a delicious result?

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