Day 316 of 1000
Lorena’s thing lately is Caprese salad. It consists of fresh tomato slices topped with a thing slice of fresh mozarella cheese topped with a basil leaf all with olive oil and a little bit of salt and pepper. It is VERY good and probably pretty healthy. Saturday night, though, we went over to dinner at my old boss and friend, Igor’s house. For an appetizer, the served something that reminds me of the Caprese salad, but, at the expense of possibly offending Lorena, might have been even better.
They started with a sauteed slice of eggplant, topped with a slice of fresh tomato, a basil leaf, and Parmesan cheese. It was also had olive oil and some spices that included garlic. It was awesome. I know I ate way to much of it, but it was health, right? Now Lorena has decided that we need to start eating more sauteed eggplant. All of us are in complete agreement.
Sounds Excellent! At the risk of inciting an unfriendly raid by a SWAT team, we have a milk cow and Julie makes fresh Moz cheese from raw (gasp!) milk – it is awesome! she has also done the same salad with a mint leaf instead of the basil leaf – I will have to tell her about the eggplant – I’m very sure that the calories from the cheese are completely offset by the other ingredients. I think we also did balsamic vinegar. Yummy! Have a great day! 😎
The balsamic sounds especially good. Making your own cheese? You guys are WAY out of our league. I bet you grow your own bail and mint, too.