Our April book of the month is definitely a modern classic (or rather a classic series). We’re cooking A Series of Unfortunate Events! I DEVOURED those books as a kid. In fact, when I first started the series, I went to the library three times in three days, because that’s how fast I was whipping through it.
Even though it’s been years since I first read A Series of Unfortunate Events, I still remember the Baudelaires’ Aunt Josephine and her chronic fear of pretty much everything. She was too afraid to even turn her stove, resulting in her penchant for cold cucumber soup.
This particular soup is a light, delicious recipe originally developed by Whole Foods. I specifically sought out a cucumber mint soup, since the author mentions that such soup has “a delicious, minty taste.” I’d never made cucumber soup before now, but this recipe is easy and refreshing, not to mention healthy. Not bad for not using a stove! 🙂
Chilled Cucumber Soup
“As you probably know, chilled cucumber soup is a delicacy that is best enjoyed on a very hot day. I myself once enjoyed it in Egypt while visiting a friend of mine who works as a snake charmer. When it is well prepared, chilled cucumber soup has a delicious, minty taste, cool and refreshing as if you are drinking something as well as eating it.”
— A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window
INGREDIENTS:
- 4 baby cucumbers or 2 English/greenhouse cucumbers
- 3 green onions, trimmed
- 1 small clove garlic
- 1 1/2 cup nonfat plain Greek yogurt
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/4 cup flat leaf parsley leaves
- 1/3 cup mint leaves (I have my own plant now! It’s majorly useful at times like this.)
- 1/8 tsp sea salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- Cucumber disks and mint leaves, for garnish (optional)
Makes 4-6 servings
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Coarsely chop your cucumbers, green onions, and garlic.
- Combine all your ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. You may need to stop once or twice to stir things around a little bit with a spatula, to help the ingredients at the top reach the bottom.
- Put the lid on your blender pitcher and chill for 15 minutes or until ready to serve.
- Pour into small bowls and serve to three unfortunate children in a hilltop house overlooking Lachyrmose Lake.
Not sure how I feel about cucumber soup, to be honest. But it sure is pretty!!!
It’s definitely got a refreshing, savory smoothie thing going on, but I think Snicket was right when he said that it’s not something you’d drink on a cold, dreary day. I had to make this for my post on an awful, cold, rainy day, and I had trouble finishing it. All the flavors were there, but my poor chilly body was NOT happy about more cold stuff! 🙂
But it made for a good blog post – and it’s really pretty!:-)
Awww! Thanks! ^.^
I need to read A Series of Unfortunate Events. I saw the movie as a kid, but never got around to reading the books. This sounds really interesting! I’ve never had a cold soup before, but I’d like to try it. ^ ^
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I think you’ll definitely love the books. They’re so cleverly written! I haven’t seen the movie, but I heard it wasn’t very good. What did you think of it? I’m SUPER excited for the Netflix miniseries coming out in November. I heard Snicket is one of the producers, and it’s usually a good sign when the author is on the production team. 🙂
I remember it frightened me as a kid. XD I’ve heard the Netflix series will be great. ^ ^ That’s usually how it is, and in turn the movies/shows do better as a whole. I wonder when directors will consistently catch on to that. XD
Haha! No kidding, right?
I loved this series! I’ve watched the movies too and it was good but left a lot out form the book. That was pretty understandable as the series consisted of 13 books!
I remember laughing at this scene as I saw the look of disappointment written all over Violet’s face as she was told it was ‘Chilled’! 🙂
This cucumber soup looks fantastic! This was an amazing post!
Thank you! ^.^ I was relieved the soup turned out to be so photogenic—I was afraid the green would be too pale to show up in the picture!
I feel like leaving-stuff-out-from-the-book is an inevitable problem with every book to film adaption. I loved that there were 13 books in the series though…and that every book had 13 chapters!
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