Today Post::Greek Soup for Dog Days (Cucumber)

First week of July. Dog days. My cooking follows the weather: northerners like chilled stuff then. I followed suit with the actions of another blogger and made Michael Van Straeten’s Greek soup.

I have Michael Van Straeten’s Salad book, and each recipe is a delight. Because I can’t immediately lay hands on the soup book firsthand, here’s a second hand culinary action.

The ingredients are easy, yet there is a bit of preparation to do. Having cold vegetable stock ready, that’s the grand secret. And making fresh tomato sauce (by juicing them with the extractor). If you can do that in the morning, blending everything on a hot day is all you want to do in the afternoon.

Greek Soup for Dog Days (Cucumber)

750 ml cold vegetable stock (from scratch, please)
25o ml tomato juice (from sun-clogged, very ripe tomatoes)
400 ml joghurt
1 cucumber, peeled, deseeded
1 clove of garlic
a lot of fresh mint (+ some for garnish)
1 tablespoon Worcester sauce

Combine everything. Blend.

Put this into the fridge till late dinner time. Until then, pass out.