Category: Caprese Salad

The Colors of Italy are in a Caprese Salad

Recently I plucked my recipe for Grilled Pork and Potato Skewers from the ensemble collection of a six-course supper with an Italian Flare. The original ensemble offered two beautiful menus, and the Grilled Pork was part of the first collection of recipes.

Six-Course Italian Flair
Antipasto: Antipasto Platter
Primo: Simple Linguine with Garlic Butter
Secondo and Contorno: Vesuvio Grilled Pork and Potato Skewers with Pan-Seared Asparagus
Insalata: Caprese Salad (Today’s beautiful feature)
Formaggi e Frutta: Selection of Cheese and Fruits (can we talk?)
Dolce: Lemon Tiramisu (Coming soon all on its own – promise!) Continue reading “The Colors of Italy are in a Caprese Salad”

Ode to the Salad – A Great Start or End to a Beautiful Meal

The Salad – be it served as a starter to a multi-course meal (common in America’s restaurants), as an accompaniment to the meal itself (common in American homes) or at the conclusion of a spectacular meal (a European thing), the salad is an often understated and yet important part of the whole dining experience. The Salad could even be the meal itself. Taco salads, Fajita salads, Grilled Whatever Salads, and one of my favorite summertime meals, the Chef Salad.

Continue reading “Ode to the Salad – A Great Start or End to a Beautiful Meal”