Ingredients: Hearty Radish, Hydromelon, Voltfruit, Fresh Milk
Description: "Enjoying this sweet soup with another person will bring you both close together."
Curious one, this. I'm choosing to take it quite literally though. We've got radishes, "hydro" melon, frozen dragonfruit/pitaya for the voltfruit, fresh cream... and then some green grapes and sugar syrup to round out the recipe. What could go wrong?
Yes, radishes. The vegetable. I don't think i want them hard and crunchy, so im going to nip the stem and roots off and boil them in a bit of hot water.
I don't know how much waters in the other fruits yet so ill be stingy with the hot water.
Now, to remember how the juicer attachment for my blender works... Perhaps i should have let this frozen dragon fruit thaw, but... I don't know, will it turn brown if i do that? im just going to add a splash of hot water and blend it, see what happens.
Ok, not as much liquid as I expected. Its turned into a nice looking smooth slush in the middle, maybe ill just dump the whole thing in after all? The seeds will be good for me.
Yeah this looks fine. Boiling the radishes ironically turns them white, but theres plenty of pink to go around.
I was really struggling with if we should add any kind of herbs or spices, but I dunno. Lets make like a fruit cocktail and add loads of sugar instead!
Handful of grapes... gotta boil those grapes. (what am i doing)
Once its nearly ready i add in the cream... uhoh... I didn't think about it possibly of it curdling. Is this something a bit of heat and a good whisking can fix?
Whoa, it kinda helped! It smells kinda bad though. It smells like cream thats been in my fridge a bit too long, and dragonfruit thats been in my freezer way too long... Im starting to feel queasy.
I also wanted to get a whole melon to cut a big heart with it, but they were all out (its mid spring as i write this!) so I got these slices... still, this will do for making a heart shape right?
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Somehow, its not as bad as I expected. It feels a lot like consuming a soup for some sort of weird ritual. The radishes are crisply boiled. The hot grapes... are nothing. Grapes are not better hot. It's sweet and creamy, and probably full of fiber. Would I make this again? Absolutely not. It's pointless. But... the experience brought us together?
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