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Easy tomato soup tastes like the Big Tomato

Recipe: Fresh tomato soup uses only five ingredients

This fresh tomato soup captures the peak flavor of ripe tomatoes and is easy to make.

This fresh tomato soup captures the peak flavor of ripe tomatoes and is easy to make. Debbie Arrington

What’s more Sacramentan than tomato soup? We didn’t get our Big Tomato nickname for nothing.

For generations, Campbell Soup made its famous tomato soup right here, using locally grown tomatoes.

And soup is an ideal use for late-season, really ripe, really juicy tomatoes; they’re packed with so much juice, this soup barely needs any extra liquid.

Fresh tomato soup requires very little seasoning; just a few dashes of garlic salt to complement the natural sweetness of the tomatoes. The food processor, blender or food mill makes it nice and smooth; no advance peeling necessary.

Fresh tomato soup

Makes 2 large bowls or 4 cups

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons butter or olive oil

½ cup onion, finely chopped

4 cups tomatoes, chopped

¼ to 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt

½ cup water

Instructions:

In a heavy saucepan, melt butter. Over medium heat, saute onion until soft.

Add chopped tomatoes including any juice. Sprinkle with garlic salt and stir. Cover pan and reduce heat. Simmer, stirring occasionally, until tomatoes are very, very soft, about 20 to 30 minutes.

In a food processor, blender or food mill, process tomato mixture until smooth. Return tomato mixture to pan and add water (a little more if needed).

Warm soup until it just starts to boil. Serve immediately.

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For week of March 24:

In between cloud bursts, try to catch up with early spring chores. 

* Attack weeds now! Get them before they flower and go to seed. Take a hoe and whack them as soon as they sprout. Aim for 1 inch below the soil line.

* Start preparing vegetable beds. Spade in compost and other amendments.

* Prune and fertilize spring-flowering shrubs after bloom.

* Feed camellias at the end of their bloom cycle. Pick up browned and fallen flowers to help corral blossom blight.

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* Cut back and fertilize perennial herbs to encourage new growth.

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