panzanella and tomatillo gazpacho

Hey beh-beh's!  We're at the beach together for our traditional family trip that we try to do once a year (although it hasn't happened in six- so we're beyond PUMPED that we are finally at the beach together!).  This year, we're in charge of cooking!  We knew we wanted at least one of our dishes to be something out there that we wouldn't normally try. Somehow we conjured up the idea of tomatillo gazpacho (actually Kate thought of this because she's a culinary genius and I nodded my head).  We didn't so much take step by step pictures (our sweet sisters were a little ADD and wouldn't focus long enough to take step by step pics while Kate and I bustled about the kitchen) but we definitely captured the end product.  First of all, look at all of the beautiful produce we have here with us:

ok, I'll admit, this is more of a picture gallery of us cooking rather than the recipes- let's face it, my recipes (when I type them) are a mile long, so we are going to tell you the links and give you the changes.


Click here for the tomatillo gazpacho recipe.

Changes that we made:
-We doubled the recipe (we're feeding 8 people here!)
-Nixed the olives... 'cause that flavor combo just sounds wrong.
-We added a jalapeno (If you're not a spice fan, take out the seeds and the "ribs". Kate left them in because Bobby Flay told her to. Consequently we almost scalded off the roof of everyone's mouth with the heat. Shame on you, Bobby Flay.)
-For extra creaminess, and to try to curb the jalapeno, we added a couple of dollops of plain yogurt. (An extra avocado or two would also be lovely! Make this your own.)

We roasted some shrimp to go on top (lemon juice, olive oil, S&P) and here you have our gazpacho that was so delightfully delicious on a beachy night:

tomatillo gazpacho with a dollop of yogurt, roasted corn, and shrimp.

an unflattering action shot of us deveining our shrimp.

kate is loving it

 

chopping away

thanks for indulging us.  you want that panzanella recipe now, don't you? ok, HERE IT IS. 

and just to get you to click on that link and make it, here's how good it looked:

this was such a lovely, light dinner combination that we encourage all of you to try!  

m and k