Fresh Homemade Tomato Soup

When you have to many fresh tomatoes on hand
and your freezer is full,make this good soup.
Don't use the small cherry tomatoes unless you
strain the soup to remove the seeds before serving.


INGREDIENTS:
2 Tablespoons olive oil
1 cup onion,peeled and coarsely chopped
1 garlic clove,peeled,minced
9 ripe medium tomatoes, coarsely chopped
3/4 teaspoon salt, or to taste
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, or to taste

Directions:
Heat oil in large saucepan over medium heat.
Add onion and garlic,
cook 5 minutes until onion is translucent.
Stir in tomatoes, salt and pepper.
Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low,
cover and simmer, stirring occasionally,
15 minutes or until tomatoes are very soft.
When cool enough to handle,
transfer mixture to a blender,
or in batches to a food processor,
and blend or pulse until soupy but still slightly chunky.
Good hot, at room temperature or chilled.