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Summertime and the Gazpacho is Eaaaassssy
About 11 years ago my dear friend Melisse brought me back this Gazpacho dish from her visit to Spain. She was near the end of her trip and the shop she bought it from didn’t offer shipping so she lugged it through the rest of her travels to fly home with it as a carry on. One of the coolest, most thoughtful gifts I’ve ever received. The girl must have totally understood my obsession with Gazpacho. Every summer I make Gazpacho and put it in this special dish and I call or text her to thank her.
So I thought I’d share my favorite easy Gazpacho recipe. I’ve tried many different versions and this is super simple and doesn’t rely on store bought tomato juice.
Serve with quickly seared shrimp skewers for a full meal. Oh, and if one of your diners thinks they don’t like cold soup, put out some tortilla chips and watch them dig in!
Whole Foods Market Newport Beach: A Shopping Wonderland
Jen and I just spent an entire morning perusing the new Whole Foods Market Newport Beach wonderland (the word market just doesn’t seem to do it justice) and WHOLEY MOLY, if it weren’t for a looming preschool pick-up, both of us could have spent the whole day there!
Upon entering the store we were greeted by an inviting rainbow of colorful, perfectly ripened produce, stands and stands of it. This might sound silly but it felt like happy food: Heirloom tomatoes, Bartlett pears, Honeycrisp apples, golden beets, turnips, endive, swiss chard, cabbage.
The care they put into their produce was subliminally saying: Eat these beautiful whole foods and you will feel happy.
It was a little bit of sensory overload because we wanted to take it all in and enjoy but we weren’t sure where to begin (in a good way).
We worked our way through the produce and noticed some…
Toasted Israeli Couscous Salad with Grilled Vegetables
By now you all probably know I hate to cook, so it really was a match made in heaven when I found out my new amazing Sales and Marketing Director, Susanne, went to culinary school and used to work as a personal chef!
You can read more about Susanne here on our new About page. In the meantime, I asked her to send me one of her favorite summer recipes to post in case any of you are planning menus for a Labor Day BBQ. This is the perfect dish to take to a potluck. Here is her oh-so-yummy dish…
My Fave Trader Joe’s Products
Someone-I-know-knows-someone who’s job it was to just travel around the world to amazing destinations looking for new products to grace the shelves and freezers of Trader Joe’s~ can you say DREAM JOB!?!?
In some cases there are probably equivalent products in a regular grocery store but for some reason doesn’t just feels a little healthier & taste a little bit better from Trader Joe’s?
I thought it would be fun to start a conversation with all of you reading this post right now~ please comment below with your favorite TJs products so we can all relish in their convenient amazingness together!
My (Susanne’s) favorites in no particular order: