Food thread! Now that it is really heating up -- what are your favorite cold soups?

Traditional Gazpacho:
This basic version of gazpacho is the one travelers would be most likely to encounter when touring through Spain. The fact that this soup is commonly found, however, in no way renders it "ordinary".
One taste of this chilled gazpacho and you will be instantly transported to a land of whitewashed walls, red-tiled roofs, and a golden sun...

•Diners: 4
•Preparation time: 30 min.
•Difficulty: easy

Ingredients
•10 oz of bread
•21 oz. of tomato
•2 cloves of garlic
•2 onions
•2 red and green peppers
•1 cucumber (optional)
•7 tablespoons of oil
•2 tablespoons of vinegar
•1 1/2 tablespoon of water
•Cumin (optional)

Preparation
In a big mortar mash the cumin, the garlic and the soaked bread, in a plastic bowl mix the chopped onion, the chopped tomato, the oil, the vinegar, the salt and the contents of the mortar, mash it with the mixer and add very cold water to mix everything. Add salt and strain it. Keep it in the fridge until served.
Serve with the tomato, the cucumber, the pepper and the toasted bread cut to dices.



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Kind of a pain to make, but very worth it!

no recipe?

no recipe?

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Vichyssoise-102030
2 cups finely diced raw potatoes
4 tablespoons butter
6 leeks, cleaned and cut into 1 inch pieces
3 cups chicken bouillon
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshy ground black pepper
a dash of nutmeg
11/2 to 2 cups sour cream or heavy cream
Chopped chives

thanks for posting it.

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Bruce: Ptttthhhh "It's COLD!"

Alfred: "It's supposed to be cold. It's vichyssoise."

Bruce: shrug

use the white part of the leeks in the recipe. Yummy.

that's in regular leek and potato soup. You're probably right not to put the green parts in cold one.

I used to get it at a French restaurant in the area. Unfortunately, the restaurant closed a number of years ago. That soup was good.

and uses cherries from the tree in their front yartd. It's delicious.

The only time I've ever seen it was in that restaurant.

1 cantaloupe, cubed
2 cups orange juice
squeeze of lime
dash of salt
pinch of cinnamon

Puree. Eat.

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although I usually serve it for lunch or supper . . .

would complement the green pepper well

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now we have some great ideas and recipes to get us through the hot summer season :D

Enjoy :hug:

I want summer to come. My tomato plants are sulking.

please don't take this the wrong way but, I would sulk too if I lived in Minneapolis.

signed,

The Cucumbers.

PS. it has been 90 all week where I live :woohoo:

... but, not to worry, it may well be 90 degrees by Monday.

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Tomatoes are a new-world vegetable (fruit, actually). Before they came to be cultivated this was the 'go to' version of an Andalusian cold soup. It's heavenly as is, but try it with some chilled shrimp as a garnish.

http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/white_gazpacho/

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:wtf: got deleted from a cold soup thread? :wow: :crazy:

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I do enjoy pork-n-beans cold out of the can.