Spacho!

Okay...So you all have probably seen the commercial for the iphone with actor, Samuel L. Jackson in which the phone talks to him and he asks the phone to remind him to put the Gazspacho on ice.   The phone asks him why and he replies- "What? Do you want hot spacho?"

As my co-workers and friends on Facebook and Twitter will tell you...I have made several jokes about the commercial as well as the fact that nobody I know , even knew what Gazspacho was.

I googled it and found out that it is a soup...A soup usually served cold, but mind you...can be served warm..My smartphone did give me a list of several area establishments where it was served and I had the pleasure of partaking of some today!

I even found a recipe for 'spacho'....  Oh what did we do before the personal computer and the internet???

INGREDIENTS:

1 hothouse cucumber, halved and seeded, but not peeled

2 red bell peppers, cored and seeded

4 plum tomatoes

1 red onion

3 garlic cloves, minced

23 ounces tomato juice (3 cups)

1/4 cup white wine vinegar

1/4 cup good olive oil

1/2 tablespoon kosher salt

1 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper

DIRECTIONS:

Roughly chop the cucumbers, bell peppers, tomatoes, and red onions into 1-inch cubes. Put each vegetable separately into a food processor fitted with a steel blade and pulse until it is coarsely chopped. Do not overprocess!

After each vegetable is processed, combine them in a large bowl and add the garlic, tomato juice, vinegar, olive oil, salt, and pepper. Mix well and chill before serving. The longer gazpacho sits, the more the flavors develop.

Enjoy!