For the summer: Cold Avocado Soup

[RushIsRot]

1 ripe avocado
1 1/2 cup chicken broth (14 oz can)
1 TBS lemon juice
1 cup half and half (I used 3/4 cup heavy cream plus 1/4 cup water)
1/2 tsp salt
white pepper, about 8 twists with MY grinder
dash cayenne

Combine avocado (I halved the avocado, then carefully quartered the meat inside the skin before scooping it out) , chicken broth and lemon juice in blender and mix until smooth. Pour into large bowl then whisk in cream, salt, pepper and cayenne. Chill and serve. May be garnished with chopped chives or dill weed.

There might be up to four servings.

I'm curious as to whether anyone else has tried making this. Next, I'm off to making cold cucumber soup. This all started as a result of making gazpacho for the first time and liking it a great deal.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. This sounds really good -

the summer's already started here (DC area), so cold soups are the order of the day. This one is so simple, it's got to be good.

Gazpacho is a constant staple in the refrigerator here during the summer. My recipe has eggs in it, and is cooked(!), but it's wonderful. Everyone loves it. I got it out of an old hippie cookbook, The Vegetarian Epicure, Book Two, and I love it just as much today as I did the first time I fixed it.

Those are two great cookbooks, by the way..............





Thanks for that recipe. I'll report back after I try it ..................

[RushIsRot]

2. I adapted my recipe from my favorite source: Cooks.com

I found several recipes for this soup there and chose one of the simplest which also matched the things I had on hand. My lady-friend is wild about avocados. I do not seem to have her same affinity for them, but with the added ingredients, the soup is pretty tasty.

Your two hippie cookbooks look like real treasures.

I have lived in the DC area and know how hot things can get there.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. This sounds wonderful and one I'm definitely going to try.

[hippywife]

4. Good to see you're eating

something good and healthy, N. You had us very worried. Glad you didn't lose your sense of humor during your prolonged stay. :hug:

[RushIsRot]

5. Every now and then I stumble and eat healthy, but I'll return to

my old self soon. It's wonderful to be back in my kitchen!

Thank you for your concern at any rate. I'll try not to cause any more worries for at least a couple of months.

[hippywife]

6. I'm glad you're back in your kitchen, too.

But, dude! How many warning shots do you really need? Don't make me come over there and beat you! Remember, I'm not that far away. LOL :hug:

[RushIsRot]

7. Carol lives just .6 of a mile away and she can't do a thing with me. I'm

incorrigible so don't incorrige me.

That was my fourth warning shot, and this time I got a stent and an angioplasty to go with my pacemaker. Perhaps they will help, but the last time I heard, nobody gets out of this world alive. :hug:

[hippywife]

8. Well...

one of us can hold you down while the other lets you have it. LOL

None of us do get out alive, tis true, but there ain't no sense in helping the process along. ;)

[RushIsRot]

11. Sure, gang up on this poor, fragile, old guy. That should hasten

my exit from this existence even better than I can alone. :evilgrin:

[hippywife]

12. I didn't say what we would let you have it with.

For all you know, these sessions would occur at meal times and we would stuff you with fruits and veggies until any thought of a trip to the tortilla chip tree would be obliterated. :rofl:

[RushIsRot]

13. But, but, but... Tacos are one of the major food groups, are they not?

I know I read that somewhere.
:evilgrin::evilgrin::evilgrin:

[The empressof all]

9. I'd twist this into Guac soup

I'd chop a large onion and cook 3/4 of it in the chicken broth with a hit of hot red pepper. When cooled I'd blend it with two avocado's the half and half, lime juice, salt and the white pepper. I'd garnish it with the rest of the chopped onion, some jalapeno and maybe a little more chopped avocado. I probably could be persuaded to add a dollop of creme freche and cilantro and some chopped tomatoes but YMMV


And if you don't use dairy...You could cook a cauliflower in veggie broth with the onion. Then puree it and build the soup from there.

[RushIsRot]

10. I come to this site to learn. That's a great suggestion about the

cauliflower.

My lady-friend doesn't care for really spicy foods, so I have to make things bland if I want her to try them. Your version sounds pretty tasty to me however.

[Hekate]

14. OMG you guys, what a mouth-watering thread. Today's guac was a simple mash with garlic, salt, lemon

Lumpy and soooo good with tortilla chips.

Your recipes, otoh, are decadent and I MUST try them.

Also, I must plant an avocado tree, I really must, definitely one of the new Little Cado (dwarf) varieties.

Lordy.

Hekate

[Tektonik]

15. Yeah, the regular trees become HUGE

My mom has a townhouse, which gets little sun, so the avocado she planted (started from a pit of an avocado which we ate) shot straight up like a giant beanstalk. It's pretty stable now (although we do have it harnessed), and it's two stories tall.