mike_cabinet - Posted - 08/16/2009:  09:14:58

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My favorite summer treat is when I can go to the garden and pick the stuff for a good gazpacho. My wife is making one right now with extra cucumber.
What could be better than a tomato sandwich with gazpacho on the side.

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BANJOJUDY - Posted - 08/16/2009:  15:13:19

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Originally posted by mike_cabinet

My favorite summer treat is when I can go to the garden and pick the stuff for a good gazpacho. My wife is making one right now with extra cucumber.
What could be better than a tomato sandwich with gazpacho on the side.

"you might as well give your son a ticket to hell as give him a five-string banjo!" (mountain minister) Earl Scruggs and the 5-string banjo.
Check out Mike''s Mute at www.mikesbanjomute.com

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Yes, Gazpacho is really refreshing in this heat. Had my first bowl 40 years ago - got easily hooked.

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Ronnie - Posted - 08/16/2009:  16:34:48

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Went with a friend to a restaurant. He ordered gazpacho. He yelled "Waiter, my soup is cold!" I wanted to hide under the table!!

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BANJOJUDY - Posted - 08/16/2009:  16:50:38

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Originally posted by Ronnie

Went with a friend to a restaurant. He ordered gazpacho. He yelled "Waiter, my soup is cold!" I wanted to hide under the table!!

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That's hysterical! Was he born under a rock or something?

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eagleisland - Posted - 08/16/2009:  17:01:46

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Originally posted by Ronnie

Went with a friend to a restaurant. He ordered gazpacho. He yelled "Waiter, my soup is cold!" I wanted to hide under the table!!

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Shoulda dopeslapped your friend. In my professional cooking days, I once worked in an excellent Vermont restaurant and ran a summer app of chilled rabbit consomee with Maine crabmeat. I stole the idea from a restaurant I worked in in Paris (they used fresh oysters. Regardless, the dish was brilliant).

The first guy who ordered it sent it back because it was jellied. As if that wasn't what I intended. One of the best dishes I ever did and it just didn't sell. Too bad.

This thread got me hankering for gazpacho. Guess I showed up too late at the local farm stand this afternoon - they had four-count-'em-four tomatoes left when I got there, and my guess is that those misshapen yellow and green rocks will stay in the family for generations. And no green peppers. Plenty of cukes, but I wasn't after a cucumber soup.

I love gazpacho. So yummy, and nothing you can make gets much better for your bod. I kick it with a bit of cumin, some fresh cilantro, and make sure there's a couple of jalopenos to augment the green peppers.

eagleisland

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Ronnie - Posted - 08/16/2009:  18:16:41

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My friend was a tough deputy sheriff of my county. I don't think dopeslapping him would have been a very good idea. LOL

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brokenstrings - Posted - 08/16/2009:  20:57:27

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Another fan of gazpacho. I always make it to take along on picnics (leaving out egg yolks, which aren't indispensable anyhow).

Jessy

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rinemb - Posted - 08/17/2009:  09:01:56

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I like it,but due to abuses of my tummy many years ago, I find that this soup is a "tummy-wrecker" to me, if I eat more than just a bit. So I like to eat a lot of good meaty bread with it.

How about a cold "Hungarian" Cherry Soup.

Brad

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Brian T - Posted - 08/17/2009:  13:27:15

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You're on, Brad. What's the recipe for the cherry soup? We've got a couple of smallish trees to strip before the )*&^^ birds get them all.
My kids will eat a big soup-plate of my gazpacho for breakfast, then fill a jar and take a spoon when they head out to the beach.

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Nor do most of us care.
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brokenstrings - Posted - 08/17/2009:  20:22:11

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I love cold Hungarian cherry soup, but you just try to find fresh sour cherries! You have to make it with canned. So, when the season for Italian plums (prune plums) comes around, i make the German equivalent: Pflaumensuppe/Zwetschgensuppe.

Lately Publix has had red currants, so I've bought up all I could, along with raspberries and strawberries, and twice made Rote Gruetze ("Red Grits"). This is a labor of love, because all you folks who grew up in the country and up North, know what a pain it is to destem red currants or gooseberries. Ah, for my mother's Stachelbeertorte (green gooseberry torte)! It was the one thing she served with whipped cream, and her whipped cream was great, because the torte was so sour that she claimed "es zieht einem das Hemde ein" (it pulls in your shirttails). When we moved to Long Island, she took along slips of the red currants and gooseberries, happily unaware that she had committed an illegal act (has to do with White Pine Blister Rust, of which ribes are carriers). When she did find out, she refused to uproot the plants.

Jessy

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