Sweet & Sour Summer Soup

Ingredients

• 2
  
  large tomatoes, cored, quartered, coarsely chopped
  
• 4
  
  apricots, halved, pits removed, coarsely chopped
  
• 1
  
  fennel bulb, trimmed, coarsely chopped
  
• 1/2
  
  sweet onion (I used a Vidalia), coarsely chopped
  
• 
  
  Juice of 2 limes
  
• 8
  
  ounces carrot juice
  
• 2
  
  ounces good olive oil
  
• 
  
  Sea or kosher salt and pepper to taste
  
• 4
  
  chilled bowls
  
• 
  
  Sour cream for garnish
  
• 
  
  Chopped fennel fronds for garnish
  

Directions

1. Place all vegetables and lime juice in the bowl of a food processor. Turn it on, and add the carrot juice through the feed tube. Process until nicely smooth. Add olive oil, then season to taste with salt and pepper. Process one last time.
2. Divide among chilled bowls. Drop a generous dollop of sour cream. Garnish with chopped fennel fronds. Serve outside, hopefully in the shade of an old, familiar tree.