It's really hot here. Like, so hot that I'm completely useless. Yesterday was up in the 90's, today should be too, and we should be seeing high 80's/low 90's through the rest of the week. Looks like it's going to be a long, hot, and dry summer.
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Here's a nice photo of my current laptop workspace in the living room, taken from my seat.
Observe piles of books and papers and knittings. |
In a fit of rage, I made 5 million gallons of gazpacho this morning. I just went whole hog with the Osterizer, making one batch and then two, using up as many veggies as I could. As you can see in the photo above, I pulled out my copy of Teresa Barrenechea's
The Cuisines of Spain: Exploring Regional Home Cooking when I started, but only used it to cross reference Sarah T's* tried-and-true gazpacho recipe. Barrenechea tends to over-do it with the olive oil in my opinion, so I generally use her recipes as a starting reference. Here's something interesting:
neither Sarah T. nor Barrenechea had any onion in their gazpacho recipes! I know! They only included garlic. Correction: Barrenechea doesn't have any onion in her recipe, only garlic, but Sarah T does include a whole red onion in hers! I've set the record straight! (
6/25/2012) I put both into mine
(and plenty of it). Because I'm a crazy person, apparently. I like my gazpacho spicy!
(I may have also added too liberal a splash [SLOSH] of vinegar... burp.)
I'm drinking a tall glassful of it right now. Jason is so repulsed by the gazpacho that he can't even watch me drink it. I poured him a tiny amount in our little Garfield mug, but I don't think he'll be able to drink it all... Nope, he just gagged trying to get the first mouthful down. MORE FOR MEEEE!!!
* Check out Sarah T's super travel blog, Someday on the Avenue,
here. I especially love her latest post on the old operating theater she visited recently. Creepy, gothic, Victoriana, yessss.
2 comments:
Wait, my gazpacho recipe has a whole onion!! I usually use a red one, by the by. Did I forget to put that in the email chain? CURSES!
I would email everyone but.... no one sent their recipes (except you and Maga, of course). LOVE THE BLOG LADY
I'm sure you checked the original email by now (b/c I know your ocd all too well), so you've verified that your recipe DID include a whole (red!) onion. It was me! I somehow omitted it when I copied the recipe in longhand. Barrenechea's the only weirdo who doesn't include onion in her gazpacho! Will correct in post! xoxo
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