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I drove to SLO today and decided to drive the scenic route through the Nipomo Mesa, wind my way along the coast through Arroyo Grande and then through the Edna Valley. The drive is beautiful and peaceful and one always encounters roadside produce vendors.
My tomatoes aren’t quite ripe yet so I purchased a couple of pounds of delicious, vine ripened and sweet tomatoes along Los Berros. I love to visit this little stand in the small, warm valley below the mesa where juicy, ripe, tomatoes are piled in baskets for one to choose and pay on the “honor system”.
Caprese is a remarkably easy to prepare salad and should be made of only the very freshest ingredients! Vine ripened tomatoes, Mozzarella Bufala, fragrant Basil Leaves and copious amounts of the best olive oil are the foundation for one of the tastiest salads available!
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Thai flavors are tantalizing, crisp and fresh. Thai food depends mainly upon the very freshest ingredients and balancing the flavors hot, sour, sweet, salty, and bitter in each meal if not dish. The tongue is alive with freshness, the taste buds are opened with heat and caressed with sweet and salty. Each dish, if properly prepared, will entice you to experience another. Simple or complex, the flavors of a Thai influenced dish are delicious. [...]
 Greek Salad – yum! Nothing but the freshest ingredients comprise a Greek Salad. Tomatoes, ripe and fresh, red onions, cucumber, kalamata olives, feta cheese, olive oil and fresh herbs. Fresh and fabulous flavors that make you feel great just looking at the salad.
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Tabouli is a wonderful salad which is organic and satisfying Levantine dish of Lebanese origin. Like most dishes the recipe will vary with the cook and by region. Tabouli, also spelled Tabbouleh, is sometimes a salad entirely of shredded parsley, green onions, mint and dressing with a bit of bulgur; other variations are a bulgur based dish flavored with fresh parsley, green onions, mint and dressing. [...]
My Fresh Cucumber & Mint Yogurt Raita is a perfect contrast to a hot sweet potato curry. A fresh chapati dipped into the cool mint yogurt soothes the tongue from the fierce, heavy curry. [...]
Black Bean and Corn Quesadilla
I love Quesadillas! I love all types of Quesadillas, I like the traditional Mexican corn tortilla and queso and I like the American version of flour tortilla and cheese. I like the idea of anything that is easy to prepare, quick to the table and something which can dress up or [...]
This year I visited Cal Poly’s Tomato Mania and purchased several very well established tomatoes for my garden. I was ½ hour late so did not get some that I had planned on getting but I left satisfied with my purchase. One of the tomatoes I recognized, as I had grown them in the past, was [...]
Asian Inspired Noodle Salad
Mia and I love salads! When Summer arrives we tend to eat salads of some type nearly every day. Leafy, green salads accompany each meal and when the mercury reaches a 100° it’s almost a requirement to make a hearty salad the best part of your day. Combine the tantalizing tastes of [...]
I am definitely seasonally oriented to food. I would never think of making soup, pumpkin pie, snickerdoodles and baked ham in the Summer and I can’t even consider most salads in the winter.My family does not agree with my culinary cubby holes, but then they don’t cook so are delighted to wait until the weather changes.
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