I didn’t actually make this; I’ve gotten so lazy that all I ever make is salads.  And when I say lazy, last time I just bought a bag of premixed salad and put olive oil and vinegar on it.  However, my industrious eaters came over early to make margaritas to reward the cook (geez thanks guys but if I’m not cooking, do I really deserve quite such a reward?) one of them raided my cucumber stash and made a cucumber soup that looked like this:

  • Some butter
  • A red onion
  • A little garlic
  • Two huge cucumbers
  • A quart of milk
  • Enough salt to call it soup
  • A large green bell pepper

The butter went into a soup pan, and at the bottom of the soup pan the garlic and onions were sauteed.  Then the garlic and onions went into a blender with the cucumbers, all blended up.  Then in the soup pan went a quart of milk, which was scalded.  After scalding, the blenderized contents went into the pan, salted to taste, and — almost instant cream of cucumber soup!  Hack up the bell pepper into tiny little chunks, and add more to give it some crunchiness and break up the flavor a little bit.  Served with salt and pepper; well, actually in my crowd we also had hot sauce on the side, but I just put ground black pepper on top, I say nothing about the taste buds of the rest of those freaks.

Tasty!  Extra thanks to my soup maker.  And thanks to my margarita maker too, though now the cap to my blender is broken.  But the margaritas are good!