I often find myself drowning in recipes from Bon Appétit, and Gourmet, looking for the most challenging and exotic. My mouth waters with the delicious list of ingredients and my head aches with the 3 hour estimated preparation time.
Let’s face it, most people don’t have that kind of time or the resources to find red curry paste. Often, the best recipes are the simplest. With the combination of fresh and local ingredients, you can have a healthy meal in seconds… sans the truffle oil.
The following recipe tastes like summer: sliced tomatoes drizzled with extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar, with fresh chopped garlic. It’s a caprese salad in its simplest form, you don’t even need mozzarella. Have an herb garden? Toss in fresh basil.
2 ripe tomatoes thinly sliced
2 cloves of garlic finely chopped
Tbls. of extra virgin olive oil
Tbls. of aged balsamic vinegar
salt & vinegar to taste
*basil (optional)
Noelle dEstries
Noelle d'Estries, an early GO employee who took on the varied roles of Community Manager, green celebrity blogger, and more. She currently runs worstcookever.com GO entered Noelle's life in February 2007 while she was burning tires in her backyard. A phone call from the green gods at GO, burnt out the fires. Now, Noelle happily wears her GO sweatshirt while eating organic veggies and asking for paper, not plastic. A regular at the local farmer's market, Noelle shuns raking leaves and lawn maintenance, while making gourmet foods constantly. When not staring at her computer screen, she spends time with her equally attractive dog, Tessa, cat, Tim and lover Paul. She currently holds all three point records at RIT and could eat avocados and drink wine for the rest of her life.
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I love pictures of vegetables. Is that weird? I kept taking pictures of the heirloom tomatoes at the farmer’s market this past weekend. Haven’t quite decided what to do with them yet, but I do love this idea of keeping it simple.
I want to squeeze those tomatoes. So. BAD.
Definitely one to save for summer when ripe tomatoes are available at the farmers market.