Gazpacho - The perfect Summer meal
After one of the craziest months of my life, I am finally back. Between visa application trips, family trips, orientation weeks for my return to classes (both taking and teaching), tones of emails exchanged, and countless days of bureaucracies, I barely had time to eat! Now imagine cooking... I have not cooked anything worth of note for a long time and I miss it dearly. But I still have some recipes to share with you. One of them is a Summer favorite among Southern Portuguese, Spanish, and Mexicans - gazpacho. Gazpacho is a cold tomato soup flavored with cucumber, pepper, lime and cilantro. The recipes may vary slightly according to location and creativity of the cook, but the main ingredients are the same. The following recipe is my interpretation of gazpacho and serves 4 people. You are going to need: 2 lbs of ripe tomatoes (any type you like) 1 cucumber 1 pepper (green, red or yellow. I use green for some color). 1 shallot 1 clove of garlic Juice of half a lime 1/4 cup of olive oil