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Don't miss Cookie and Kate's latest recipe! [View this email in your browser]( [Go to cookieandkate.com]( [ALL RECIPES]( [BREAKFAST]( [SALAD]( [DINNER]( [DESSERT]( [DRINKS]( [COOKBOOK]( [The Ultimate Gazpacho.]( Jun 30, 2017 06:48 am [Read the full post at cookieandkate.com]( [This gazpacho recipe is the best! It's a refreshing summertime soup, perfect for your garden tomatoes and cucumber. Vegan and gluten free. cookieandkate.com] This post is brought to you by the Vidalia Onion Committee. Gazpacho! The chilled, raw tomato and vegetable soup from Andalusia, Spain. Ever had it? Love it? Hate it? I can’t say I’ve always loved it, but if you get it right, gazpacho can be so good. At its best, gazpacho is super refreshing and bursting with fresh-from-the-garden summer flavors. At its worst, gazpacho tastes like chunky cold salsa or thin tomato juice, neither of which do I particularly enjoy. I wanted a texture somewhere in between the two, and far superior flavor. The trick, I discovered, is to blend half of ingredients into creamy oblivion. Then, add the other half and blitz until they break into tiny pieces. You’ll end up with a delicious, rich base, with tiny pieces of tomatoes, cucumber and pepper adding intrigue. [Vidalia onion and tomatoes] I used a Vidalia onion to kick the flavor up by a few more notches. Vidalias aren’t grown in Spain; they’re grown exclusively within 20 designated counties in South Georgia. The mild winters and low sulphur soil produce a distinctively mellow, sweet flavor that works well in recipes ranging from onion dip to dessert. Yes, dessert! Vidalia onions are available only in the spring and summer (from April to August), so they seemed perfectly suited for gazpacho. Gazpacho is a raw soup, and other varieties of raw onion are too pungent to let the other flavors shine through. Combined with red, ripe, juicy summer tomatoes, this is the gazpacho that dreams are made of. [Continue to the recipe...]( The post [The Ultimate Gazpacho.]( appeared first on [Cookie and Kate](. [View, print or pin this recipe!]( [Buy Cookie and Kate's new cookbook, Love Real Food!]( Recently on Cookie and Kate: [How to Make Chimichurri]( [Spice Giveaway & Vegan Mac and Cheese]( [Pink Drink]( [12 Delicious Pesto Recipes]( [How to Make Basil Pesto]( [View Cookie and Kate's recipes]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Pinterest]( [Instagram]( [Google+]( Thank you for subscribing to Cookie and Kate's emails! ♥ Copyright © 2017 Cookie and Kate, All rights reserved. You are receiving these emails because you subscribed to requested to receive new posts by email on our website, cookieandkate.com. Our mailing address is: Cookie and Kate 4741 Central St, #358Kansas City, MO 64112 [Add us to your address book]( [Receive fewer emails]( or [change your email address]( or [unsubscribe altogether]( [MailChimp Email Marketing](