I've had good results with freezing things like gazpacho. One idea - if you freeze in in single serving containers, then you can take it out of the freezer in the morning and by lunchtime it's all slushy and delicious.

that sounds yummy brenda....

You can do fruit soups that way too - they're fabulous on a hot day.

What beth said, Teppy. Blenderize it when it's thawed and then throw in some freshly diced up tomatoes, cucumbers, onions and green peppers. For very authentic gazpacho, cube some dense white bread up, too and chuck that in. I loved the way they served it when I was in Spain.

Gazpacho's acidic enough that it keeps for longer than you'd expect in the fridge, too.

Hmm. That might work, then. I'll make less than an assload, but enough to have a few servings in the fridge.

Though the freezing in single servings and getting a slush-like consistency by lunch, frankly, sounds YUM. Because it's really fucking humid here.

That does sound good, Steph. Now I want gazpacho.

(Makes note to look up recipe for the stuff)

I think I will have to make gazpacho this week.

Copy-cats!

I use Joy of Cooking's gazpacho recipe, but substitute Spicy V8 for the tomato juice. It's nummy.

all the cool people are copying Steph. soon we want umfriends too.