Mike's 3 Ingredient Tomato Soup - (Really?) the Longmeadow Farm Recipe

Directions:

1. Please cook rice first. Or if you're lucky - you can use what is left over from the Chinese food you bought the other nite from the carryout.
2. In medium soup-pot, put in olive oil, turn heat up to med/high. Add onion, cook 1 minute. Add garlic. Swirl around soup-pot with spoon until garlic is fragrant. (about 30 seconds).
3. Smoosh tomatoes in bowl, with fingers, or use a sharp knife with a fork and dice if you don't want to use your fingers.
4. Add crushed tomatoes to soup-pot, along with rest of ingredients, down to additions.
5. Turn up heat to high, stir, and wait for a soft bubbly boil. When boil comes, cover, turn heat down to low, let cook for 15 to 20 minutes.
6. Add rice.
7. After 10 minutes, stir in herbs de province, croutons.
8. Pour in warmed soup bowls, (run hot water in and around soup bowls for 5 minutes. prior to serving) add fresh basil to top.