Plum Tomato and Bread Soup

I love the name of this soup: tomatada. Even though it might sound like a late-night fight, tomatada is nothing more salacious than tomato and bread soup, prepared in the Portuguese style. By that I mean acordas - bread added to soups and stews (see Açorda Alantejana). This recipe comes from a Portuguese vendor at the farmers’ market Feira da Glória, who told me how his wife makes tomatada at home for their family, and it’s one I like to