Tomato Soup

I admit I did not make this, my mom did. But I bought her the cookbook (Jamie Oliver's "meals in minutes" or something to that extent) she used, so that counts...right? It is a delicious soup, but not a comfort food type tomato soup. It's onion-y and has an entire red chili pepper in it, but it has no cream at all. This is not to say it's bad--it was excellent! Actually the non-comfort-food-ness of it actually makes it better in a way, because it is a totally different type of soup.

We served it with a sprig of basil, a dollop of crème fraiche, and a piece of the homemade bread I made (I'll write more about that tomorrow). It was delicious!