Tuscan Tomato & Bread Soup

I've had this recipe written in pencil on a small index card for many years, so where I got it, I don't know, but my guess would be from some television show. Whether I altered the original recipe when I wrote it down is also unknown.

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1/2 teaspoon hot pepper flakes
28 oz. can whole peeled tomatoes, with juice
14.5 oz. can tomato sauce
1 and 1/2 cups chicken stock
1/2 lb. stale Italian bread, torn into chunks
10 to 15 basil leaves, torn
1 small onion, chopped (+ some finely chopped for garnish)
2 cloves garlic, minced
Parmesan cheese
salt & pepper

Heat the oil over medium heat in the pot you will use. Turn the heat to medium low, add the onion, garlic and hot pepper flakes, cook for about five to six minutes to soften the onion. Add the tomatoes with their juice, squishing the tomatoes through your fingers to break them up as you add them. Heat briefly before adding the chicken stock, tomato sauce, and then salt and pepper, to taste. Stir well. Heat through and then add the basil. Serve the soup over bread pieces, allowing the servings to sit for a couple of minutes to absorb the hot broth and soften. Top each serving with some grated Parmesan cheese and some finely chopped raw onion.

WORD HISTORY:
All-For such an extremely common word, the history of "all" is uncertain, and its possible relationship to words outside of the Germanic languages is unclear. It "may" be related to "old," which, like its Germanic cousins, was once pronounced with a beginning "a" sound, and the meaning of which developed from a word that meant "to grow, to grow out;" thus by extension, "grow to full size," thus, "mature, grow old." This notion of "grow to full size" then "could" have provided the meaning of "all;" that is, "complete, total." It goes back to a Germanic base "all," with the general idea of "complete, entire, total, everything." This gave Old English (Anglo-Saxon) "eall," with the same meanings. This then became "all," and it has remained such for many centuries, up to the present. The other Germanic languages have: German, Low German Saxon,  "all," Dutch "al," West Frisian, Danish and Norwegian "alle," Icelandic "allur," and Swedish "alla/all."