Soup
Tomato Gazpacho
A cold soup of ripe tomatoes and cucumber that needs no stove at all.
- 20 min
- Serves 4
- tomatoes
- cucumbers
- bell peppers
Summer plate · A hot afternoon outdoors
Porch Lunch
Cold soup, crisp fritters and a cool cucumber salad: very little time at the stove.
In what order
Blend the soup in the morning and chill it, make the salad, and fry the fritters just before eating.
The dishes
Main
Zucchini Corn Fritters
Crisp little cakes of grated zucchini and sweet corn, with cool yogurt on the side.
- 35 min
- Serves 4
- zucchini
- corn
Salad
Cucumber Dill Yogurt Salad
Cold, tangy and fresh, good on its own or next to anything off the grill.
- 15 min
- Serves 4
- cucumbers
- dill
One list for the lot
Shopping list for 4
Every dish scaled to 4 servings and merged by aisle. Salt, pepper and oil you probably have already.
Produce
- 1bell pepper
- 2corn
- 4cucumbers
- 1 bunchfresh dill
- 2 clovesgarlic
- 1lemon
- 1/2red onion
- 1 bunchscallions
- 3 lbtomatoes
- 3zucchini
Dairy and eggs
- 2eggs
- 1/2 cupparmesan
- 1 1/2 cupsplain yogurt
Bakery
- 2sourdough bread
Pantry
- 3/4 cupall-purpose flour
- 1 tspbaking powder
- 8 tbspolive oil
- 2 tbspred wine vinegar
Spices
- 2 1/2 tspsalt
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