Gazpacho happens

[altivo]

I blame @jmhorse for this. Entirely. He posted a photo early today of his market prizes, a pile of tomatoes and some cherries. I'd been thinking about gazpacho for a while and that small mountain of tomatoes (less the ones JM already admitted to having eaten) made me think harder about it.

As it happened, I was going to the farmers' market here this morning, and hurrah, ripe tomatoes and peppers at last. Some of them followed me home. (I didn't let on my plans for them when inviting them to dinner.)

Here is the result:



For those who aren't familiar with it, gazpacho is a basically liquid salad, or a chilled soup. The ingredients for this version are minced ripe tomatoes, minced sweet banana peppers, chopped Spanish onion, chopped cucumbers, tomato juice, minced jalapeno pepper, some garlic, red wine vinegar, olive oil, red pepper and black pepper, and dill. Served icy cold with fresh bread or crunchy croutons, beer or wine, and perhaps some other things, though in hot, humid weather the soup is the perfect thing.

I think it has been sufficiently chilled now...

Comments

[casey382]

Of course, that looks good.
I can not find canned gazpacho anymore. I used to enjoy that. I guess it fell out of favor at Campbells.

[altivo]

The only source I know for canned gazpacho was Cross & Blackwell. Used to be able to get it at Treasure Island, but I've never seen it anywhere else.

It's really easy to make, though. No cooking or anything.