Chilled Honeydew Soup with Lime Spice Cookies Recipe
SUMMER DELICIOUSNESS
Never underestimate the medicinal properties of chilled melon soup.
Despite what I thought were solid precautions, I have caught a little cold. Not Covid — I got tested just in case. So yeah, I have a cold but I’m sure glad that’s all it is.
Nothing much you can do for a cold with a sore, scratchy throat but take zinc and vitamins and wait it out. But if you can make yourself a soothing melon soup, that would also be a very good thing.
Honeydew has always taken a back seat to cantaloupe with me, but this recipe for Minted Honeydew Melon Soup in the cookbook “Soups + Sides” by Catherine Walthers (published by Lake Isle Press) caught my eye. Actually, the accompanying recipe for Lime Spice Cookies was what first got my attention; since the recipes were paired together, I made them both.
I baked the cookies first and just loved them. They are lightly flavorful with a nice crumbly shortbread texture. And they’re versatile. Great for a picnic or barbecue, but because they’re not too sweet they could just as easily be served at a cocktail party or a tea. And while I normally love a chewy cookie, a nice light shortbread does the trick on a hot summer day.
The surprise here for me was the soup. I chose to add a dollop of raspberry sorbet, and while neither honeydew nor raspberry is a favorite of mine, the flavors complement each other beautifully--for me, they’re better together than on their own.
And it was such a salve to my beleaguered throat; a little bath of tasty, silky coolness. Plus, it’s basically just natural ingredients — fruit and mint — (except the small scoop of sorbet) for an extra dose of goodness.
It’s a simple pairing of two recipes that can stand on their own, but take on new dimensions when served together; each responding to the flavors and textures of the other. Just the right touch when you want to finish off a summer meal with a light and easy dessert. Good for what ails you, and just plain good.
Minted Honeydew Melon Soup with Sorbet
With a pretty lime-green color and specks of mint, this chilled soup makes an easy, light dessert on a hot summer…