Golden Gazpacho Asbo ala beat box style.

Thinkin’ on gazpacho

Putttin’ on my poncho

A little bit a’fatso

But singin’ intermezzo

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Partying tomorrow

Playin’ my piano

Make the soup in yellow

For ma local hero(s)

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The sky is gonna shadow

The days are gonna narrow

The plants are gonna go go

In ten degrees below oh

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For sure its gotta snow snow

Them balls we’re gonna throw

Santa’s gonna show show

He’ a groovy fellow

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The recipe below oh

Is simple as I show oh

No cookin’ here, you follow?

So enjoy it m’Amigo

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Fresh prints of Dull Hair – Smell check having predictive apoplexy again. Can’t imagine why?

I reveal how the devil indeed makes work for idle minds in my about page? This trite is the consequence of ‘check in 2 hours before you fly.’

Crossword swiftly nailed, ipaddy (a green cover) unable to get on to the net.  A buxom woman swathing her body in a poncho humming a gospel version of “Oh happy day” and three young lads practicing their echoing beat box routine inspired the above.  I feel it wins hands down over the embarrassment of Dad Dancing?

Before we left for Ireland I made a Fridge Raid Autumny Gazpacho, (it’s a FRAG man) which if we hadn’t devoured would have had been whizzed to a finer texture, a tablespoon or two of  liquid glucose added before finding itself in the freezer, to become a sensational savory sorbet. A genuinely moreish crowd pleaser, user-upper and diabetic lover too.

  

  

There are no rules with a fridge raid so I washed and halved golden baby plum tomatoes,  a few red too, just for good measure. Sliced some baby peppers, sliced scallions, a finely chopped shallot, finely chopped small stick of celery and fennel, elephant garlic, a skinned and deseeded cucumber, plenty of seasoning.

  

To do:

Prep veg/salad, combine in jug or bowl as shown and pour over a very decent glug of sherry or red wine vinegar, add the seasoning and I added about half a cup of respectable quality rapeseed oil. Combine and then leave to steep and macerate as you would if making a pickle or chutney. I popped a plate on top the jug shown and it sat in the fridge for 24 hours but over night is more typical.

Don’t drain away the liquid. Whizz the lot in a processor. I added more rapeseed oil for both taste, fluidity and stunning colour. This really turns up the volume on a cold soup.

  

Make garnishes with a Parisienne scoop and score stray bits of vegetation with a sharp knife, leave in iced water to morph into garnish.

  

Serve with parmesan and tomato crumb sticks. The end of a tomato loaf of bread whizzed to crumbs and combined with parmesan on flat sheet (medium oven) for 5-8 minutes.

  

A punchy, feel good, ‘do you good’ soup, and best of all a ‘no phaph’ soup that can become a seriously savory sorbet for a muse-bouche or starter.  Sprinkle with drips of icy cold Vodka just before serving for a real wow!

Sadly the essential revealing of ‘rear trouser cleavage’ would bring an abrupt halt to ones naturally unhinged rapper career, but on the plus side there is space for a row of geraniums in terracotta pots, innit?

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