I made very successful gazpacho from that recipe (yay!) but I gotta say I think the recipe sucks.
She tells you to keep all the juice from the coarsely chopped tomatoes, and then never tells you what to do with it. The grammar is such that I thought I was blending half the tomatoes with the other veggies, and then leaving the others coarse, but it turns out I should have blended half of everything in one batch and the other half of everything in another batch. (And a food processor worked fine, even if a blender perhaps works better.)
I absolutely don't get squeezing out the "excess" liquid. You use the tomato water to get the texture right and then you squeeze out the liquid? I tried it, didn't like the results, and put the liquid right back in, along with the juice from the chopped tomatoes (and never used any tomato water) and it was just fine.
Things I did like: I like the chopped veggies as a garnish, and also the fresh cilantro and cherry tomatoes (though I used cherry-sized chunks of other tomato). I liked the flavor. I like the drizzle of good olive oil at the end. I'll save the recipe, but still ...
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regna
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Date: 2012-08-26 18:47 (UTC)She tells you to keep all the juice from the coarsely chopped tomatoes, and then never tells you what to do with it. The grammar is such that I thought I was blending half the tomatoes with the other veggies, and then leaving the others coarse, but it turns out I should have blended half of everything in one batch and the other half of everything in another batch. (And a food processor worked fine, even if a blender perhaps works better.)
I absolutely don't get squeezing out the "excess" liquid. You use the tomato water to get the texture right and then you squeeze out the liquid? I tried it, didn't like the results, and put the liquid right back in, along with the juice from the chopped tomatoes (and never used any tomato water) and it was just fine.
Things I did like: I like the chopped veggies as a garnish, and also the fresh cilantro and cherry tomatoes (though I used cherry-sized chunks of other tomato). I liked the flavor. I like the drizzle of good olive oil at the end. I'll save the recipe, but still ...