A transcendent summer tomato salad |
| Published: July 8, 2008, 1:05 pm |
| Tags: cucumber, featured, onion basil, panzanella, tomato, tomato salad, tomatosalad |
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Filed under: Recipes, Soups/Salads, SummerOne of the dishes I look forward to making when summer rolls around is the tomato salad you see above. It's nothing particularly special, just some chopped tomato (I use whatever I have on hand that is ripe, this time it was a bunch of sweet grape tomatoes) tossed with some roughly minced onion (I like red, but you can use whatever you have around) and some shredded basil. It gets dressed with salt, pepper and a glug of olive oil. And that's it. The thing is that when you let this salad stand around for half an hour or so before serving, it becomes something far greater than just a collection of modest ingredients. The salt draws the liquid out of the tomatoes, which blends with the oil, creating a heavenly dressing. The basil softens and releases fragrant oils, which gently permeates the other ingredients. I can not possibly begin to describe how good it tastes. Another nice thing about this salad, is that while it is wonderfully simple, it [ Full article ] |
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