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Passport & Plate - Passionate Gazpacho Andaluz

Spain | Friday, March 14, 2014 | flickr photos

Ingredients
1,5 pounds tomatoes
1 cup cucumber
0,5 cup sweet onion
0,5 cup bell pepper (red)
0,5 cup bell pepper (green)
3 ts cherry vinegar
2 ts extra virgine olive oil
0,5 ts salt
0,25 ts sugar
0,25 ts ground cumin
5 garlic cloves

*ts - table spoon

 

How to prepare this recipe
Keep it as easy as it is:
peel cucumbers and chop everything in quarters, gather together and blend until smooth in a food processor (simply blender). Then press mixture through a sieve into a bowl. Cover and cool it in the fridge.
To be served with crushed loaf of white bread (or with white bread crumbs) and some preferred greenery on top.

 

The story behind this recipe
It all began more than half a year ago. As a member of the great couchsurfing community, I have an undoubt passion for helping people. It happened that a boy from Barcelona asked citizens of St. Petersburg to send him a national banknote of minimum value cause he was collecting such banknotes all over the world. Being a responsive person, I replied. So in a week I found one although it turned out to be a hard matter as we have coins instead of them now. I sent and didn't share a thought to wait for the reply since it was not supposed to. To my great astonishment and pleasure, once in the morning my Mom took a Spanish postcard from the mailbox. I was to be found even in a bigger surprise as the sender put down the recipe of his favourite national dish there. I didn't give a slim chance to wait and cooked gazpacho Andaluz. So easy and fast and so tastiful! As if ten shadows of each spice were bubbling on the tip of your tounge! Guess how much I liked the recipe as I took it to the Restaurant day! That's quite a recent tradition in St Pete - when anyone can open a pup-up cafe for a day - and I participated in each of them. On two Restaurant days out of three I served gazpacho and that was absolutely successful! Bowl after a bowl, they were given from hands to hands doesn't matter if there was a spoon or not - some people just drank it! - just to grab the liquid paradize remenescensing of the warmth and sun and relish it biting white bread without any hurry..the stunning success of gazpacho on Restaurant day also proved it to be one of my family's favourite soups by now and that's just hilarious how by a random coincidence you can find something really worth among marginal peculiarities of life..