RECIPE: Chilled Blueberry Banana Soup

Our recent article on chilled soup featured a recipe for Chilled Cucumber Yogurt Soup. It’s a great starter. But chilled fruit soups are great summer desserts, and they couldn’t be easier to make. Just toss the ingredients into a blender or food processor, whirl, and it’s ready to serve. RECIPE: CHILLED BLUEBERRY BANANA SOUP Ingredients…
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RECIPE: Pineapple Gazpacho

[1] Pineapple gazpacho, spicy and refreshing (photo courtesy Urban Accents). [2] A fresh pineapple makes this summer soup taste terrific (photo courtesy Whole Foods Markets).   Yesterday we featured a spicy Grilled Pineapple Cocktail, but only the garnish was grilled. Today, The pineapple is marinated in spices and lime juice, then grilled to provide this…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Dinner In A Broth Bowl

An elegant broth bowl, with duck breast and foie gras. Photo courtesy Duet Brasserie.   Are bowl bowls trending? Last month we wrote about layered salad bowls. Today it’s broth bowls—a dish that dates back to prehistory*, as soon as vessels were made to hold soup. Homo sapiens (us modern humans) emerged about 200,000 years…
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FOOD FUN: BLT Gazpacho

Bright red tomato gazpacho shows off the BLT topping. Photo courtesy Munchery.com.   Like BLTs? Turn the concept into a soup, as Munchery.com did with this tomato gazpacho. There are as many recipes for gazpacho as there are people who make them. Each region of Spain has its own preferred style, dating back hundreds of…
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