SOUP FOR ANY SEASON

ntil recently, soup wasn’t a part of our weekly family menu. We had chicken soup or vegetable soup now and again, but we didn’t have much variety — until my brother began growing tomatoes in his garden. A few years ago, he started bringing a lot of his homegrown tomatoes to us. So, we started counting them. In all, he gave us 708 tomatoes that summer. Tomatoes were everywhere in our house, in various stages of ripening, as my brother had to pick them early before the deer ate them. We had a great time finding dishes to make with all those tomatoes. Naturally, Tomato Soup