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    Home » Soups

    Summer Lovers-Tomatoes and Gazpacho

    Published: Jan 17, 2012 · Updated: May 26, 2020 by Peter G · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

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    Summer time. It conjures up images of ice cream. Beaches. Sand. Stone fruit. Crickets chirping. And for me…tomatoes!

    I have always associated tomatoes with summer. There's something about this sexy fruit that hypnotises every part of me. I can never resist eating them or photographing them for that matter.

    tomatoes

    Last year I made a bruschetta that combined the classic Italian Caprese ingredients as a topping. The year before I made an easy salad, marvelling in joy at the simplicity and availability of different heirloom tomato varieties.

    This summer I want to celebrate with gazpacho. Yep! We're having soup! "Sopa Espanol".

    cucumber and green pepper

    I can tell you now quite honestly, that if you had asked me to eat this a number of years ago I would have laughed in your face!

    "Cold soup?"…yeah right!

    But things change as do tastebuds. (I know I have written about it a few times before but I seriously was a terrible eater as a child. I put my parents through hell. Yes. I was one of those children that had separate meals cooked for them…now back to our gazpacho!)

    And here I am now, preaching the wonders of this glorious elixir.  Gazpacho really does celebrate the best of summer. It's a brilliant combination of crisp cucumber, sweet capsicums and plump, juicy, ripe tomatoes.

    Throw in some stale bread, garlic and olive oil and you create a nectar good enough for any god!

    truss tomatoes

    As you can imagine there are numerous recipes for gazpacho on the internet.

    I added some chopped chilli to the mix because I quite like the chili and tomato combo.

    The only other thing I did was add some feta cheese as a garnish. I couldn't resist a "Greek touch".

    This soup needs to be served cold. Anything less and you wouldn't be doing it any justice.

    Go ahead...make some!

    gazpacho soup recipe

    Just a note: I'm trying something different for the recipe today. I've presented it a little different. You can now download the pic below as a pdf and save it to your favourite device. Let me know what you think. Cheers!

    Gazpacho Soup Recipe

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