Saturday, June 06, 2009

Insalata Caprese

The first heirloom tomatoes of the season showed up at Whole Foods, which prompted me to make a caprese salad as a first course the other night.

The tomato:


Slice it and throw on some fresh mozzarella, chopped basil, olive oil, salt and pepper, and you get this:


Steph, who would rather eat hot glass than any sort of a tomato, actually gave it a try:

Well, I thought it was delicious.

3 comments:

Stanfill said...

have her try the brandywine variety. when tiff came up, she actually loved them. try to find them at the farmers' market:)

cjaxon said...

Looks great to me. Oh well, she tried!

Tiffany said...

Yes, I did love them up in Michigan. The gnarlier and more purple they are, the better they taste!