With an abundance of super-ripe, garden fresh tomatoes, here's one way to make use of them all. This is a basic tomato soup, one that can for the base for your culinary customizations, or simply enjoy the soup as it is, fresh, bright and summer-y!

Recipe (well, sort of, I cook by feel mostly):
Take a bunch of ripe tomatoes, big, little, whatever, but enough to fill at least a third of a large pot or enameled dutch oven when chopped up into 1-2 inch pieces. Add a healthy pour of olive oil and then put the tomato pieces in. Chop up a small to medium onion or three (to taste), throw it in the pot, get that pot on medium high heat and stir occasionally. You want to stew the tomatoes in their own juice for about 30-45 minutes, or until they are good and mushy. In this stewing mixture add salt and pepper to taste, a dash of cayenne, a couple of shakes of Italian seasoning and a bay leaf or two. While it is stewing, finely chop a clove of garlic or two and chop some fresh basil, throw these in too. Once the stew is well broken down but also rather thickened, add a bit of chicken stock to bring it back to a more thin consistency, there is no measurement, we are cooking from the heart, but I poured maybe a cup and a half in this video. Bring back to a strong simmer. When the tomatoes are mostly broken down, take the whole stew and pour it in a fine meshed strainer or into a food mill, do in batches. I used a strainer and just worked the stew against the mesh with a spatula for a considerable amount of time to force all the goodness into the pot below. This removes seeds, skin and chunks. Now we have a clean, boiling hot soup that needs one final touch - put in a short pour of heavy whipping cream and stir. You can add more or less. It is delicious!

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