The Southern Yankee Kitchen

As we wind our way to summer's inevitable end, here's a great way to to enjoy the fresh flavors of the farmstand in a chilled soup with a crazy name. Gazpacho is a traditional soup in Spain and Portugal that features raw summer fruits and vegetables that is served chilled. Vine ripened tomatoes and seeded cucumbers are always part of a gazpacho, but watermelon adds a delightful twist. I like to whiz up my ingredients in a blender, like a thick veggie smoothie. If you want to

If you have even the smallest of backyard gardens, you’ve probably had this happen to you. Friday afternoon you go out to check on your veggies and you see a zucchini that has grown to a decent size, but would be just perfect if it were a little bigger. You will pick it tomorrow. Tomorrow comes and goes and you have spent the day running errands and taking kids to ballgames and birthday parties, maybe getting together with friends at a local patio hangout, forgetting all abou