I made an awesome and easy tomato soup yesterday. This recipe is easy enough that not even Alex Panzer could fuck it up. The ingredients should be available anywhere and everywhere:

Panzer-Proof Cream-of-Tomato Soup

Two cups of chicken stock
One cup of heavy cream
One stick of butter (see where this is going?)
A fistfull of finely chopped-up fresh basil
One teaspoon of sugar
Two cans of diced tomatoes
Three fresh tomatoes, diced

Heat that shit up at a low rolling boil for 20 minutes. Then puree with a hand blender until it's smoooove. Fat is where the mouthfeel lives, which is why the heavy cream and butter are your friends. Keep this in mind for future soups. The fresh basil makes it aromatic, the combination of fresh and canned tomatoes is key to a deep tomato flavor. (The sugar takes the "bite" off the canned tomatoes, but they do have a different basic flavor.) For an adventuresome variation, throw the fresh tomatoes under the broiler until the skins turn black and the flesh of the tomato gets saggy, peel and throw into the soup sans skins.

I know this soup is better in the autumn but dang it, yesterday I just had a yen. It was so good.

I will advise you young bucks, though, that a nice soup like this does make the ladies think you're a man of refined tastes, which makes them more amenable to letting you fuck them up the butt or piss in their mouths. Make sure the cans have been disposed out of sight, of course.

Panzer-Proof Serving Suggestion: A rustic loaf of crusty bread made according to the New York Times' No-Knead Bread Recipe. Or saltines.