Hey Everyone,
I got motivated to come up with a cold soup - my wife is now 3 months into her Weight Watchers Plan and we eat a lot of cold tomato, cucumber, corn and vidalia onion salads. So going to this was easy.
I always preach that people should root around on the internet for recipes and looking at recipe videos people post on YouTube. Being the web is such an international thing you get lots of variations and learn
a bit about the origins of dishes. I learned something very interesting when searching Gazpacho from Wikipedia, check this out:
Tomato was added to the recipe in the 1700s. Although Cortez found tomatoes growing in Montezumas gardens in 1519, and it became part of the culinary bounty brought back to Spain by the 16th-century conquistadors, as part of the Nightshade family of plants it was deemed poisonous and relegated to decorative plant status. A famine in Italy 200 years later caused starving peasants to eat the tomatoes to no ill effect, and the tomato entered the European culinary tradition.
Can you believe that something so prevalent in Italian cuisine now was so shunned in the past ?? Learn something every day huh ??
Anyway here we go:
Mis en place:
5 ice cubes
1 1/2 cups V8 Juice
3 large tomatoes cored and quartered
1 large cucumber, rough peeled and cut into chunks
1 red bell pepper, cored and cut into chunks
4 cloves garlic (about 1 tablespoon)
1 medium vidallia onion, peeled and quartered
2 stalks celery, cut into chunks
juice of one lime
1 Tsp Tobasco Sauce
1 Tsp Worstecshire Sauce
1 Tsp Sea Salt
1 Tsp Fresh Black Pepper
1/2 cup cilantro
1/4 cup EVO
1 avocado, peeled and cut into chunks
1 ear uncooked corn, peeled and corn cut off cob
8 medium cooked shrimp, peeled
Preparation
Place first group of ingredients into blender or food processor as listed. Pulse on medium speed off and on about 30 seconds. You don't want a pureed mass, you want some small rough pieces. Because of the ice cubes you can serve it right away. OR place blender canister into fridge and refrigerate 2-12 hours. It tastes a lot better when it's had a chance to get cold and the ingredients can meld together some.
Serve in soup bowls and garnish with the avocado, cut corn and shrimp... If you can make some garlic bagel crisps or croutons to float in the soup, all the better.
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Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of th
I got motivated to come up with a cold soup - my wife is now 3 months into her Weight Watchers Plan and we eat a lot of cold tomato, cucumber, corn and vidalia onion salads. So going to this was easy.
I always preach that people should root around on the internet for recipes and looking at recipe videos people post on YouTube. Being the web is such an international thing you get lots of variations and learn
a bit about the origins of dishes. I learned something very interesting when searching Gazpacho from Wikipedia, check this out:
Tomato was added to the recipe in the 1700s. Although Cortez found tomatoes growing in Montezumas gardens in 1519, and it became part of the culinary bounty brought back to Spain by the 16th-century conquistadors, as part of the Nightshade family of plants it was deemed poisonous and relegated to decorative plant status. A famine in Italy 200 years later caused starving peasants to eat the tomatoes to no ill effect, and the tomato entered the European culinary tradition.
Can you believe that something so prevalent in Italian cuisine now was so shunned in the past ?? Learn something every day huh ??
Anyway here we go:
Mis en place:
5 ice cubes
1 1/2 cups V8 Juice
3 large tomatoes cored and quartered
1 large cucumber, rough peeled and cut into chunks
1 red bell pepper, cored and cut into chunks
4 cloves garlic (about 1 tablespoon)
1 medium vidallia onion, peeled and quartered
2 stalks celery, cut into chunks
juice of one lime
1 Tsp Tobasco Sauce
1 Tsp Worstecshire Sauce
1 Tsp Sea Salt
1 Tsp Fresh Black Pepper
1/2 cup cilantro
1/4 cup EVO
1 avocado, peeled and cut into chunks
1 ear uncooked corn, peeled and corn cut off cob
8 medium cooked shrimp, peeled
Preparation
Place first group of ingredients into blender or food processor as listed. Pulse on medium speed off and on about 30 seconds. You don't want a pureed mass, you want some small rough pieces. Because of the ice cubes you can serve it right away. OR place blender canister into fridge and refrigerate 2-12 hours. It tastes a lot better when it's had a chance to get cold and the ingredients can meld together some.
Serve in soup bowls and garnish with the avocado, cut corn and shrimp... If you can make some garlic bagel crisps or croutons to float in the soup, all the better.
__________________
Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of th
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