4 chilled spanish soup Recipes

chayotes, roughly diced, spanish onion, peeled and roughly chopped, leek, white part only, sliced to about 1/2 cup, chicken stock or vegetable stock, light cream, toasted ground fennel seed, cilantro, water, crema fresca or creme fraiche, salt and pepper

blanched peeled almonds, stale baguette or 6 slices white bread, crusts removed, peeled garlic cloves, water, cold, extra virgin spanish olive oil, spanish sherry wine vinegar, salt

raw almonds , without skins. (you can buy them ready ground), garlic (1 or two cloves. i suggest you start easy and add more as you go), olive oil, sherry wine vinegar, stale bread, crusts off, salt , to taste, cold water, grapes or cubes granny smith apples or melon or stoned cherries, to serve