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White Bean and Vegetable Soup with Pesto Sopa de Alubias y Verduras con Salsa Pesto (Recipe excerpted from Simple Real Food by Amanda Cushman) (To use fresh tomatoes in place of canned for sauce or soup: Cut out the stem ends of the tomatoes and cut an X in the skin. Place them in a circle on a microwave-safe plate. Microwave on “high” for 2 minutes. Rotate the tomatoes and return them to the MW. Microwave on high for 2 minutes longer. Allow them to set in the closed MW until cool enough to handle. Pull off the skins. Chop or puree the tomatoes, as needed in the recipe, in a blender or food processor.)

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