Basil, grape tomato amuse bouche; date, caper and sundried tomato salad; yellow tomato pomodoro e cipolini served with matzoh crackers
Dinner 26 April 2007.
An homage to the tomato, featuring an amuse bouche of grape tomatoes wrapped in basil leaf with evoo, sea salt, wine vinegar and nutritional yeast, a salad of minced dates, caper and sundried tomatoes dressed with lemon, evoo, and sea salt and a yellow tomato pomodoro e cipolini salad dressed with fresh basil, evoo, wine vinegar, black pepper and sea salt.
The wine was Botter's Nero d'Avola.
13 comments:
I can go for some tomatoes right now. I can't wait ill summer when we get the real thing and not imported ones that sit on a plane or truck..
Thanks, and thanks for the heads-up on the brochettes -- I can't believe they're not vegan. WTF?! This was the first time I've used them and since it was Yves and not their prima stuff, I don't even think to check the label. Anyhow, yeah, seasonal/regional produce is always the best. We have a local tomato grower up here and they're already on shelves (not the yellow ones I ate tonight, though, unfortunately).
you always do such a fabulous job with colors! i love capers, too! i hope the brochettes didn't throw your stomach off!
Oy vey, matzoh crackers! :o) Appealing to the Jewess in me. But all the food looks so great... and i'm not Italian in the least bit.
P.S. Likin' the new photo there of you. Handsome!!
Thanks, stonielove. I was fine. I have a cast iron stomach. It was just really annoying and disheartening since Yve's used to be entirely vegan, but now they're making all kinds of products that aren't.
I love tomatoes....
I like matzoh cracker! They're sort of like a little melba toast. I was also too lazy to make crostini, which really would have been the appropriate accompaniment.
I love tomatoes, too. I don't think I could ever eat a macrobiotic diet (no tomatoes, no eggplant, no peppers).
Yeah, gotta love the nightshade family. I can't wait for farmer's market tomatoes! We won't be planting a really big garden this year, since we'll be travelling, but those local farmers better watch out!
this is so amuse bouche.
That's awesome. I wish I could plant my own garden. I don't have enough room, soil, sunlight or talent, though.
It is! I was super amuse-bouched last night.
plants require very little room really, you can grow tomatoes in planter boxes, I like matzoh too and I am impressed enough with the vegan - macrobiotic would be too much
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