Fruits and Veggies of Summer
Today's column includes more recipes featuring fruit and vegetables that are now readily available. If your herb crop is doing well, this is also the perfect opportunity to use some dill and basil. The cold soup is a favorite at our house, and turned up as part of an article in the mid-1970's that included several recipes using a food processor. This was one of the first times a Cuisinart was highlighted in a national cooking magazine and it immediately caught our attention. Over the years, our original Cuisinart, still in perfect condition, has been joined on the kitchen counter by a number of its smaller "cousins" - and all of them are used frequently. Early on, we painfully discovered (since reading detailed appliance instructions has never high on our list) that potatoes and food processors don't always play well together. A dinner party including potatoes ended up with a mass in the food processor that very closely resembled wallpaper paste. A second trip to the store and another round of prepping the potatoes made that lesson stick. It is interesting to note that the Cuisinart has gone from being a novelty when it was introduced in 1975, to a household word, including its frequent use as a verb.
