I couldn't find condensed tomato soup so I substituted with tomato paste. When I first did a taste test on the soup, it was WAY too sweet, I couldn't taste anything else. I doubled the spices (except paprika, I only added a dash more of that), added salt and pepper (to my taste, didn't really measure) and was finally able to salvage it and bring out some flavor. I ended up having to add three or four times the amount of milk I put in initially because the soup was just way too thick. I don't know if that was because of the tomato paste, but even WITH that substitution I feel like the dilution with milk was a little on the excessive side. Even with all that milk, the soup still came out more like a slightly thinned sauce than a soup. It was delicious to dip my grilled cheese in, and it's OK (and really, only ok) to use as a sauce, but I don't think it's really edible as a soup.
I'll try to make it again with some reviewer's suggestions (such as using v8) and I'll see if that makes a difference. Not bad, but not great.
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