The Gazpacho Police sounds like a good idea. I’m no purist, but the basic purpose of gazpacho is to use up stale bread. Soak it in water, add some olive oil and vinegar along with a couple of cloves of garlic and whatever other vegetables you’ve got lying around, and serve it cold.
Add some of those modern touches if you want, like watermelon or avocado or tomatoes, but don’t call it gazpacho if it doesn’t have bread.
Hmmmmm. I think it’s probably too late for me to learn to stop calling tomatoes and cukes and garlic and olive oil all smushed together “gazpacho” with or without any bread.
What a Maroon
Just remember, no one expects the Gazpacho police!
Pliny the in Between
From the SAT prep test:
Gazpacho is to Gestapo,
as Gaspacho is to ___________
a) Stazi
b) ˈSoviet GRU
c) Cambell’s tomato soup
d) all of the above
(answer is d)
Blood Knight in Sour Armor
And yet I find myself unable to decide which is more disgusting…
I make some of the world’s best gaspacho – strained or unstrained. My family loves it as a summer treat. And as far as healthy foods go, it’s hard to beat. One important factor that sometimes gets missed is that gaspacho should be refrigerated for at least 36 hours before serving so that all the flavors can properly blend.
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Populism at its finest, isn’t it? We are witnessing the revival of the Know-Nothing Party,
MTG is just trying to appeal to the Republican bouillabaisse.
Ha!
Screechy wins the internet today.
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The Gazpacho Police sounds like a good idea. I’m no purist, but the basic purpose of gazpacho is to use up stale bread. Soak it in water, add some olive oil and vinegar along with a couple of cloves of garlic and whatever other vegetables you’ve got lying around, and serve it cold.
Add some of those modern touches if you want, like watermelon or avocado or tomatoes, but don’t call it gazpacho if it doesn’t have bread.
Hmmmmm. I think it’s probably too late for me to learn to stop calling tomatoes and cukes and garlic and olive oil all smushed together “gazpacho” with or without any bread.
Just remember, no one expects the Gazpacho police!
From the SAT prep test:
Gazpacho is to Gestapo,
as Gaspacho is to ___________
a) Stazi
b) ˈSoviet GRU
c) Cambell’s tomato soup
d) all of the above
(answer is d)
And yet I find myself unable to decide which is more disgusting…
Heresy!! Gazpacho is fabulous!
I make some of the world’s best gaspacho – strained or unstrained. My family loves it as a summer treat. And as far as healthy foods go, it’s hard to beat. One important factor that sometimes gets missed is that gaspacho should be refrigerated for at least 36 hours before serving so that all the flavors can properly blend.
¿Gaspacho?
Gaspacho appears to be the Portuguese spelling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazpacho
Portuguese? Hmph.
Yeah, what do they know about it?!
I bet Pliny the Elder had a recipe for gazpacho.
Nadine Dorries, our (sigh) Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, had this to say recently:
*eyes roll right out of head*
Yet another incident of sticker daubing in the news. When will this scourge end?