Sherried Tomato Soup

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 6 tablespoons butter
• 1 medium onion, diced
• 46 ounces tomato juice
• 2 (14 ounce) cans diced tomatoes
• 1 -3 tablespoon chicken base
• 3 -6 tablespoons sugar
• 1 pinch salt
• black pepper
• 1 cup cooking sherry
• 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
• 2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
• 2 tablespoons fresh basil, chopped

Recipe

• 1 saute diced onions in butter until transluscent. add canned tomatoes. add tomato juice, sugar, pinch of salt, and black pepper and stir. bring to a near boil, then turn off heat. add in sherry and cream and stir. add in parsley and basil to taste, adjust other seasoning, and serve with yummy, crusty bread on a cold, blustery, dreary, depressing, rainy, snowy day. then close your eyes. and give thanks for soups like this.