Cheers To A Healthy Summer!

Yes, I toasted this healthy Gazpacho recipe by serving it in a wine glass!

After a month of traveling, my wife and I decided it was time to focus on some healthy summer foods, like chilled Gazpacho – so I made a batch!

Here are the ingredients – all fresh:

About 2 pounds ripe tomatoes of all kinds! Use Heirloom, Orange, baby, with the large ones cored and roughly cut into chunks

1 cucumber, about 8 inches long, peeled and roughly cut into chunks

3 small mild sweet onion peeled and roughly cut into chunks

5 cloves garlic

2 teaspoons sherry vinegar, more to taste

Salt

½ cup extra-virgin olive oil

Got it all set aside? Great – let’s cook!

Chop all of the ingredients roughly and then combine the tomatoes, cucumber, onion and garlic in a bowl – so easy, here’s a look:

Put it all in a blender or like me, use a hand blender until they all combine in a very smooth liquid – blend for at least 2 minutes, pausing occasionally to scrape down the sides with a rubber spatula. With the motor running, add the vinegar and 2 teaspoons salt. Slowly drizzle in the olive oil. The mixture will turn bright orange or dark pink and become smooth and emulsified, like a salad dressing. Here is the entire process:

At this point, you can strain all of the small pieces of tomato and cucumber out, but I leave my with a hint of chunkiness!

Refrigerate for a few hours to get it nice and cold, and to let the flavors get to know each other!

Before serving, adjust the seasonings with salt and vinegar.

I served mine in a wine glass with a few drops of fresh lemon juice, plus a drizzle of olive oil and some finely diced cucumber and tomato!

Here’s how easy it is:

There you go! As the recipe pointed out, the use of olive oil really helps the gazpacho have a creamy, almost carrot soup quality, but the flavor is much much more than that!

You can see that olive oil glistening in the gazpacho, and when you add the diced cucumber and tomato, it really pops! Oh and a drizzle of lemon really brings it to life as well…

I really loved. this: so much that I made it again – with a few changes and I will be sharing that soon!

It’s all part of my “healthy summer soup” obsession’s its dishes like this:

See how similar the look is for my carrot ginger soup?

See that recipe here, plus 3 more healthy soups as well!

And did you see this recipe for “longevity stew?”

The Greeks live a long life and this stew is one reason! See the recipe here!

My wife and I loved visiting Greece: from the bustling metropolis of Athens to some of the Greek Islands, like Santorini, where we visited a vineyard:

While these vines look somewhat familiar…here is what they look like in a wide shot!

This is what a vineyard looks like on an island that doesn’t get rain!

Click here to see their unique process for growing grapes!

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