When life gives you 'maters...

make tomato soup!

When you think comfort food on a rainy day, what is it your mind conjures up?

For me it's grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup.

Sure, you can go to the grocery and pick up one of those red adn white cans and pop it in the microwave, but why be so boring? Besides, I've got an abundance of tomatoes and basil in my garden right now, and I NEED to use them.

So, I'm no good at sharing recipes because I don't follow any, but here's my best attempt:

Sautee an finely chopped onion in a little olive oil until transparent, adding salt and pepper to taste. Add to the pot roughly 2-3 lbs of roughly chopped (I just cut them into about four sections) tomatoes and some chopped garlic. Cook until the tomatoes have boiled down and are mosty liquid. At this point I threw in a half of a jalapeno and a spoonful of sugar to cut the acidity of the tomatoes. Zip in the blender until smooth, strain to remove larger pieces of skin and seed, return to the stove, add heavy cream until desired consistency and color and bring back up to temperature. Toss in some basil for flavor.

That's it! Easy enough, right?