[Sca-cooks] Gazpacho

[Huette von Ahrens]

Suey,

Here is my recipe for gazpacho.  I got it when I was in Spain many years ago.

Huette

1 1/2 cups bread crumbs 
1/4 cup wine vinegar 
8 large tomatoes - peeled, seeded and chopped 
1/2 cup minced onion 
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
1 cucumber, peeled and finely chopped 
1/4 cup olive oil
1/8 tsp salt 
1/8 tsp cumin seeds, crushed [optional]
Water [if necessary]

Soak bread crumbs with the vinegar.  Place all ingredients, reserving a tablespoon each of chopped tomato, onion and cucumber, in a blender or food processor and blend until smooth. Add in reserved items.  Add water to thin gazpacho if it seems too thick.  Refrigerate until you are ready to serve.



--- On Sun, 1/25/09, Suey <lordhunt at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Suey <lordhunt at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Gazpacho
> To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
> Date: Sunday, January 25, 2009, 3:29 PM
> Loosing it, lost it. Basically of late I am not allowed in
> the kitchen. Peter, my husband, has a chef - Luis. He was
> the chef in Paris for the Chilean ambassador and later for
> Morgan Reynolds, the owner of Pan Am Airlines. The other
> night, Luis had a night off and I made gazpacho. Peter said
> it was wonderful, of course he is an ambassador at heart. I
> think it stinks.My ingredients were:
> a slice of stale bread soaked in vinegar
> 750 gr tomatoes
> 3 garlic clove
> 1/4 cup olive oil
> salt
> What is missing here??? The tomatoes were first class.
> Something was missing to give it the flavor we know.
> Suey
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