Peanut Butter Soup

My friend Bob and I have had an interest in the idea of "Peanut Butter Soup". We've actually created a few different (extremely varied) recipes. This one is actually NOT one of our inventions, but comes from a traditional African style soup.

Ingredients

3 Tbsp Butter
3+ Tbsp Flour
4 1/2 Cups Milk
1 or 2 Tbsp Grated (minced) Onion
1/4 tsp Celery Salt
1 Cup (creamy) Peanut Butter
3 Cups (2 cans) Diced Tomatoes
Salt and Pepper
Cocoa powder for garnish

Drain (sieve) the tomatoes and heat them. Start to heat the milk in a pot slowly. Go ahead and add the seasonings to the milk. Prepare a white sauce by making a roux (whisk the butter and flour over the stove until bubbly and just about brown) and then add some of the milk a bit at a time, whisking constantly until it is smooth. Once you've added about two cups of milk this way, return the entire mix to the pot and stir until smooth.
In a separate bowl mix the peanut butter with some of the white sauce until smooth and consistent. Add more white sauce a little at a time (like before) and keep whisking until smooth and consistent. Then return the mixture to the pot
Add the tomatoes and mix well.
SERVE with a light dusting of cocoa powder as garnish.

2 convenient ways to heat the tomatoes: either heat them over the stove until bubbly and then drain the liquid in a sieve or drain first and then heat will in the microwave. TRUST ME about the cocoa power garnish. It is the PERFECT finish!