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For the first day of my vegetarian experiment, I actually made a raw food dish for lunch. Not intentionally – it’s a family recipe that comes up whenever the heat makes you unwilling to eat a hot meal, yet you need something filling.

It’s called Fruchtsuppe (Fruit soup) or Kaltschale (Cold bowl) and it’s quite easy to make and easy to vary.

You need:
* 250g of fresh strawberries
* 1 nectarine or peach
* 1 apple
* some other fruit, I used blueberries today
* 100ml of refrigerated milk
* 100ml of refrigerated orange-mango juice (plain orange juice also works)
* 6-8 tablespoons of fruit sorbet (ice-cream also works)
* some ice

1. Clean and cut up all fruit.
2. Blend half the strawberries with an equal volume of nectarine/peach pieces and an equal volume of any other fruit except apples, plus all of the juice. Pour the blend into a pot.
3. Add the milk, fruit sorbet and ice to cool down the mix.
4. You may want to add some vanilla, sugar, lemon juice or cinnamon at this point; I didn’t today. If the taste of the soup base is too strong, add milk.
5. Add the rest of the cut-up strawberries, nectarine/peach and other fruit, especially the apple pieces, which will be a nice refreshing ingredient in the soup. If you have tasty blueberries, I find that those are good in the blend but not so good as pieces in the soup.
6. Serve it cold, as soon as all the ice / sorbet is molten. If you have more time, you can also refrigerate this. On a hot day, eating this soup at an almost-freezing temperature is heaven.