Mexanese Mumbo Jumbo

I live in a corner suite that faces north/west, with a mountain & water view, that make the beautiful Vancouver sunsets in the summer picturesque. Though I have to occasionally deal with the noise from the drunken crazies stumbling out of the Beagle and Lola's on the weekend, I quite enjoy my locale, even if during the summer I get the afternoon sun for the better part of 8hrs. This creates a wonderful sauna effect in my humble abode, that when I get home after work, the thought of using the oven or stove is...well, less than appealing, shall we say. So in an attempt to find something for dinner that doesn't require heat, I had a moment of brilliance [cue lightbulb]. I was going to make Gazpacho, finally deciding to give the cold Andalucian soup a try.

I got the recipe from Streefy and headed out to get the remaining ingredients, thinking I had most of them already. I had also decided that I might as well get a blender of some sort since the soup calls for it. The fact that it is actually called for a food processor was just one of those "suggestions" that, in my mind, replacing with a blender would be just as good. I then had another moment of brilliance and decided I would make smoothies for breakfast as they are both, refreshing and healthy! [insert cheesy k-mart smile]

I returned home, blender, bread (who knew the soup included bread blended in?!) and a jalapeno in hand, only to realize that my onion had gone bad, it seems I don't cook with a lot of onion as often as I think I do. The green pepper I had envisioned in my fridge had actually be eaten during the day as an afternoon snack, and I returned sans fresh or frozen fruit for breakfast smoothies.

Realizing the effort required to see through my prior brilliance, laziness kicked in and I decided not to return to IGA for a second time in 15mins. Gazpacho will have to wait another night. But I have a blender!