Blenders, Raw food and Emeril

I have tried many different recipes from many different chefs and stay at home moms, but today I am truly impressed. My cucumber plants are producing more cucumbers than I knew what to do with, so I looked up some cucumber soup recipes. I decided on one from Emeril from the Food Network (which btw it is rare for me to select a Food Network recipe since every single recipe I have ever tried that was a "flop" was from that site)

The ingredients seemed sound which are pictured above- minus the yogurt, sour cream and "essence". Lots of creaminess and fresh herbs with cucumber as the main ingredient sounded pretty good to me. I plunged into the recipe and followed the ingredients almost perfectly. I was unaware I had run out of fresh garlic, and I kept the seeds in the jalepeno peppers but other than that, exact. And... WOW. I mean, wow.  Simple, refreshing, sweet, tart, subtle, with a zingy aftertaste. Perfection. It helped that I have an amazing Blender, I think. It was so easy.

Cold Cucumber Soup.

I am so incredibly impressed, I plan on trying many many more of Emeril's recipes. Who knew cucumber soup could be so filling?
It was only after I made the entire thing, that I realized that this meal was all completely raw. No heat of any kind was used. Which means.... not a single nutrient was lost!!  And without going into too much boring detail, I achieved the same results accidentally that I was researching all day yesterday with juicing. Why does food make me so happy?