Cucumber Soup, Excellent for Warm Days

A GREAT soup for warm weather and easy to make .... The chopped radish gives it a little crunch. 

Ingredients:

2 seedless cucumbers, chopped
16 ounces plain low fat yogurt
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
3 cloves garlic, chopped
2 green onions with as much of the green as possible, chopped 
1/4 cup fresh parsley
1/4 cup fresh dill
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup olive oil + more for garnish
3 or 4 radishes, chopped

Since the ingredients will be blended, they do not need some kind of uniform chopping. Blend ingredients, except for radishes, until smooth. Chill soup for several hours. Garnish each serving with some chopped radish and a drizzle of olive oil.

WORD HISTORY:
Yogurt-This word's ultimate origin is unknown, but it goes back Turkic ^ "jogurt," which had the meaning, "thickened or condensed milk." This later gave Turkish, "yoghurt," meaning, "milk fermented by addition of certain bacteria," which was borrowed into English in the early 1600s. 

 ^ Turkic is a language family just like Indo European (Indo European is the ancient ancestor of English). Linguists generally use a "family tree" setup in classifying languages, and Turkic has several branches, as does Indo European, with English belonging to the Germanic branch. Turkic also has languages in northeastern Asia. The Turkic-speaking Bulgars were a group that entered southeastern Europe, mixed with other people and became the modern Bulgarians, but a form of Slavic gradually replaced their own Bulgar language by about 1400. Bulgar is now extinct, as is Hunnic, the language of the famous Huns, which were also a Turkic speaking people. "Turkish," should not be confused with "Turkic," as "Turkish" is the language of the people of Turkey, and it is one of many "Turkic" languages.