Basil is nice in almost anything!
Mama, is that yogurt coming my way?
Well, I haven’t posted one of mama’s recipes lately and I thought, because of the hot weather, you might like to try this really easy cold soup that really does cool you down inside!
At least they tell me it does. But I do love the nice smells in the kitchen when it’s being made. I sort of salivate all over my kibble dish and then mama gives me a little yogurt or cheese, depending on what she has used for the soup. Recipes are invented and changed around here all the time, just for fun. So here it is:
2 fresh zucchine (zucchini is incorrect, at least in Italian), each cut in a few pieces
1 sweet onion, chopped coarse
1 clove garlic
Broth, chicken or vegetable, both are fine
Juice of a large lemon
A few fresh mint leaves (or basil or cilantro, if you prefer–mama changes sometimes)
1 small triangle of a processed cheese OR 3 generous tablespoons of plain yogurt, full fat
1 ripe avocado (!)
In a saucepan, put the zucchine, onion, and garlic. Cover just to the top of the vegetables with broth. Bring to a simmer and cook for about 15-20 minutes until the vegetables are soft. Cool.
In the top of a food processor or blender, put the rest of the ingredients and blend to a smooth purée. Add salt and pepper to taste.
You may also blend the soup with a hand frapper, one of those very powerful hand-held wands that really make ingredients smooth and beautiful.
Chill the soup and serve with a little mint or cilantro or chopped avocado on top in the soup bowl.
This soup is so, so easy and is also good in winter, hot, but we all like it (haha, get the “we”) really chilled on these canicule (heat wave) days.
Mama has a nice, cool gazpacho recipe, too, if you’re interested.
(That is, if Mya doesn’t eat all our tomatoes, haha.)
The mom says that soup sounds so good…especially on a hot day like today.
Oh, it’s good for that. And now she has made a carrot one that is really good. I got a tiny drip.
Yum, that sounds delicious! Perfect for hot weather, Loulou.
And sooooo easy.
And it keeps mosquitoes away (so they said on the news last week!) – Mama’s going to get a pot for every window. Besides, it’s pretty and we can eat it!!! Should go nicely with those tomatoes!!
Wow, didn’t know about mosquitoes! Merci!
Formidable.
Je vais essayer cette recette en version vegan.
Les courgettes du jardin sont délicieuses, profitons-en.
Let maman know what you did, but she is not vegan, just eats wisely.
Actually, until very recently, I was “just” a vegetarian.
But I was so upset, so shocked, so horrified even when I heard about “les vaches à hublot” that I decided to go vegan, out of consideration for these poor animals.
This world is mad, mad, mad.
We understand and respect all choices. Just not those based on fake news or assumptions. The anti-gluten craze is an example.
Am not sure I get your drift.
The horror perpetrated on those innocent cows is neither a fake news nor an assumption.
Have you seen the picture where a man puts an arm into the body of the animal in order to explore its stomach?
When this is done, he shuts the little round window. Et voilà !
Don’t you find this monstrous?
This said, in my 30 years as a vegetarian, I have never done any proselytism. I will do likewise as a vegan.
I cannot opine on gluten or no gluten.
NO, NO, misunderstanding. Horreur, all of your report! But when mama was a professional baker/businesswoman/lecturer/demonstrator she would try to give out samples of her very good bread and women would say, “OH no, bread gives me yeast infections”…..go figure. So you can see why she is a bit ironic about those who have allergies to this or that with having been to a doctor at all and there are a very few celiac people in 100,000, for example. It was all misinformation they had received about bread and yeast and gluten, etc, etc, etc.
90 degrees and 90 humidity… of course Im interested in your mom’s Vespa home!!! Xoxo
Vespa? I think I am missing something here…does it have to do with Roma?
That sounds good 🙂 Thank you for sharing the recipe.
De rien, Ellen, and so good cold.
Anything cool sounds good about now !
Well, this is cold and was finished off today so another is in the works.