Creamy Fire Roasted Tomato Soup

A delicious soup served with crostinis. Add alphabet letters for kids, mine love it.
Ingredients:
Olive oil
4tblspn butter
1/4 cup of flour
1 yellow onion diced
2 tblspn garlic
1 tblspn thyme
4 or 5 tomatoes
Italian seasoning
Chili powder
1 1/2 cups of chicken broth
2 1/4 cups half n half
2 or 3 oz cream cheese

Cut tomatoes in quarters and lay them with the skin facing up. Drizzle olive oil and using a brush spread olive oil over the tomatoes.

Using 2 tablespoons of chili powder, 1 tablespoon of Italian seasoning and salt and pepper season the tomatoes. Spread evenly to ensure uniformity of taste.

Turn oven heat to broil and cook tomatoes in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes.

On medium low heat melt 4 tablespoons of butter in a pot and mix 1/4 cup of flour into a liquid like paste.

Add about a whole yellow onion diced and cook until they start to get translucent, no browning on onions so keep heat around mid low to not burn.

Add garlic and thyme and cook for about a minute.

Add fire roasted tomatoes (if homemade fire roasted tomatoes disregard sauce they cooked in) and raise heat to medium for 5 minutes. Stir occasionally.

Add 1 1/2 cups of chicken broth and bring to a boil than lower heat to medium low. At this point your soup should be thick.

Add 2 1/4cups of half n half and 2 to 3 oz of cream cheese (for a more creamy taste use 3oz for more tomato taste use 2). Raise heat to medium and stir in salt and pepper for taste. Cook for about 5 minutes while stirring frequently.

Use a blender to get all the chunks of tomato finely ground into a liquid and enjoy !