As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve become the unofficial cold soup guru for our Thursday gatherings. For a couple of weeks now, I’ve wanted to create a recipe, completely from scratch. I decided this week would be the week. Ever since I started thinking about it, I’d had a difficult time deciding what to put in it. I kept thinking tropical; pineapple, coconut, call it pina colada soup, or some such. Then yesterday, inspiration hit.
Strawberries.
The plan (as it stands now) is to use apple sauce as the base (a whole bowl of pureed strawberries might be a little overpowering,) add a tub or two of pureed strawberries, some pureed pear to sweeten it up, probably some orange juice, and serve it with fresh whipped cream spiked with a little cream cheese. (I haven’t thought all the way through the physics of that. It might not work.) Trying to decide about seasoning. Mint doesn’t feel quite right, fresh cilantro sounds interesting to me. I’ll probably just riff and see what happens.
Results to follow…
How about fresh lemon grass?