Hot in the City? Have some cold soup...

We haven't quite embraced the "chilled soup" here in Blighty as our cousins on the continent have probably because it's quite often bloody cold here (my housemate has broken the tights out today - MID August!) and we need a warming bowl of broth to keep us warm us up! but what about on those rare summers evening when they idea of standing over a hot stove/ hob/ microwave is less appealing that John Prescott in a hot tub?

Well relax - I have found the perfect recipe for a gazpacho (chilled tomato based soup) that is guaranteed to refresh and revive you on a  sticky summers evening!

You will need:

100g old stale bread soaked in water
1kg of ripe tomatoes, diced, you can keep the skin and seeds on (get fondling the goods- they need to be soft and almost ready to split!)
1 red pepper - diced
1 green pepper - diced
a cucumber - peeled and diced
1 peeled clove of garlic
4-5 tbsp of olive oil
salt and pepper
1 tbsp Vinegar - Sherry, white wine or even balsamic work well with the flavours

1) |After soaking your bread in water for 20mins, squeeze the water out and pop the soggy bread in your blender
2) add to that the tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, garlic, olive oil and sherry and blitz it up! If it is sticking use a ladle or two of the bread water to help it come together
3) pour and push it through a sieve
4) chill in the fridge for 1hour
5) serve in bowls with croutons and chopped spring onions as a garnish

Enjoy my little senors and senoritas!