Telly Savalas
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Tue Jul-12-05 03:25 PM
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It's waaaay too hot to cook in the kitchen, so I'm looking to fix some sort of tomato based veggie salad for dinner. Caprese salad with a baguette sounds like a pretty good summer meal, but it'd be nice to jazz it up a bit. Anyone got any ideas?
(I'm gonna be away for a little while, and will be pissed if I come back here to find a flame war, so everybody behave. :) )
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Tue Jul-12-05 03:27 PM
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fresh tomato fresh carrot slices fresh pea pods fresh broccoli
boil some pasta..add some oil...toss....
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Tue Jul-12-05 03:27 PM
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2. Beefsteak tomatoes sliced |
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with thinly sliced purple onion, topped with gorgonzola cheese, and a few dashes of balsamic vinegar! YUMMM!
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Tue Jul-12-05 03:30 PM
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5. We do that, but add thinly sliced cucumbers, too... |
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It is great in the summer.
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Tue Jul-12-05 03:28 PM
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3. No recipe, but ha ha ha! |
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Tue Jul-12-05 03:28 PM
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4. add some nice milky feta |
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Tue Jul-12-05 03:31 PM
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Boil 5-6 roma tomatoes, cored, for 10 minutes or until skin becomes loose.
Remove skin, let cool.
Once cool, slice in half, lengthwise, and cut the skin of the toamto off from the "meat." Take the skin and cut it into strips, then dice into small cubes 1/8th of an inch in length.
Place in large mixing bowl.
Mince 2 cloves garlic, 2 shallots, 1 tbsp parsley, 1 tbsp tarragon (fresh) and 1 tsp mint (fresh).
Add these to the tomato cubes.
Season with salt and pepper, and ad to any bed of greens you got handy.
VOYLAH!
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Tue Jul-12-05 03:33 PM
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Sliced tomatoes, sliced mozzarella, chopped basil leaves, slat, cracked pepper, vinaigrette. It's cliche, but exquisite.
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Tue Jul-12-05 03:38 PM
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8. must be ~fresh~ mozzarella |
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and I like to add a drizzle of honey enhanced with passionfruit over the salad.
Alternately, - gazpacho is pretty tastey in hot weather, too.
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Tue Jul-12-05 03:44 PM
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11. indeed, preferably buffalo mozz |
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Edited on Tue Jul-12-05 03:45 PM by fertilizeonarbusto
And I love gazpacho (green, red or white) but my recipe is a family secret...
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Tue Jul-12-05 03:40 PM
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9. I like it with extra virgin olive oil |
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Tue Jul-12-05 03:40 PM
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Better with day old Italian bread, but it works OK with fresh
Bread, crust removed and diced into 1/2 to 1 " cubes (4 cups) Tomatoes, cored, and diced to same size as bread cubes (2 cups)* 1/2 cup diced red onion 3 tabls olive oil 1.5 tabls red wine vinegar Fresh basil or arugula leaves, shredded. Salt and pepper
Whisk the oil,vinegar, salt and pepper together, mix in the red onion, then the bread, thoroughly mixing, and finally fold in the tomatoes and basil/arugula. Let stand 15 minutes.
* if the tomatoes are really soft, seed them.
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Tue Jul-12-05 03:50 PM
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Toast several small CHUNKS of baguette in toaster oven or oven for 15 minutes to make real croutons. Cut up pieces of tomato in about 1/2 inch pieces. add slivers of parmesan rip pieces of basil into salad coat all ingredients with olive oil
then crush or chop 2 cloves of garlic into salad and drizzle with balsamic vinegar. let chill for 3o minutes so that garlic permeates the salad
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Telly Savalas
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Tue Jul-12-05 06:37 PM
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15. Oh, whoah. Put slivers of parmesan in it... |
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and now I can't stop eating it.
Yummmm.
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Tue Jul-12-05 07:20 PM
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I think I will make some for Misunderestimator tonight :D
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Tue Jul-12-05 04:08 PM
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13. Dont forget the cucumbers |
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tomatos cucumbers red onion some light olive oil red wine vinegar and fresh basil
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Telly Savalas
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Tue Jul-12-05 04:17 PM
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14. Great ideas, everybody. Thanks! |
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We'll probably be looking at a hybrid of them. Cheers! :toast:
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