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5 Ingredient Friday: Tomato, Basil & Mozzarella Salad

August 5, 2011 by 3 Comments

This week’s 5 Ingredient Friday recipe is inspired by my CSA box! We’re on a Tomato and Basil overload this week, so I figured I’d make a delicious Tomato, Basil & Mozzarella Salad for dinner one night. We had both Red Grape Tomatoes and Yellow Grape Tomatoes on hand, as well as a few Heirloom Tomatoes. You can use whatever kind of Tomatoes you have on hand as long as they are delicious!  This is so simple to make, and it tastes so fresh! And it’s a bonus that everything is organic and local.


Ingredients

  • Tomatoes (I used Red Grape Tomatoes & Yellow Grape Tomatoes)
  • Fresh Basil
  • Fresh Mozzarella Cheese
  • Salt & Pepper (freebies!)
  • Olive Oil
  • Balsamic Vinegar Reduction

Instructions

Slice up the tomatoes and place them in a bowl. Slice the Mozzarella and then cut up into chunks. Place the cheese in the bowl around the tomatoes. Cut up the fresh Basil and sprinkle all over the Tomatoes and Mozzarella.  Drizzle some olive oil all over the salad. To finish it off, drizzle some of the Balsamic Vinegar Reduction all over. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.

This salad is so delicious and fresh tasting, it’s great for during the summer when you don’t want to turn on the stove or the oven.  We have so many tomatoes from our CSA that I didn’t know what to do with them all. But this was the perfect solution. And who doesn’t love an excuse to eat some fresh mozzarella?!

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Week 13: What’s in the Box?

August 3, 2011 by 2 Comments

Wow, is it really What’s in the Box Wednesday already? It almost doesn’t seem possible. It feels like I *just* wrote last week’s post about what we got in the CSA box, and here I am again!

I’m enjoying the CSA more now than I was before, because we’re getting better vegetables. But that doesn’t change my overall feeling of this experience. Yes, it’s been good to try some new vegetables, but 9 times out of 10 I don’t like them, lol. But this is something I can say I tried, even if I didn’t love it.

So anyway…this week we got a few staple vegetables such a Garlic, Green Beans, Green Bell Peppers, a few varieties of Tomatoes, and some Basil! I just need to get some Fresh Mozzarella from Reading Terminal Market and I can make a killer Tomato, Basil and Mozzarella Salad! We got a healthy amount of Basil so maybe I’ll make some pesto or something as well.

THE BOX:

1 Bag Garlic – Certified Organic – Coyote Run Organics

2 Lemon Cucumbers – Certified Organic – Liberty Acres *Put in Swap Box

1 Bag Green Beans – Certified Organic – Maple Arch Farm

3 to 4 Jalapeno Peppers – Certified Organic -Farmdale Organics *Put in Swap Box

2 Green Bell Peppers – Certified Organic – Maple Arch Farm

1 Pint Gold Grape Tomatoes – Certified Organic – Millwood Springs Organics

2 Yellow Straightneck Squash – Certified Organic – Outback Farm

1 Bulb Fennel – Certified Organic – Autumn Blend Organics

1 Bunch Aroma Basil – Certified Organic – Noble Herbs

1 Bag Heirloom Tomatoes – Certified Organic – Taste of Nature

FRUIT SHARE

1 Red Seedless Watermelon – Certified Organic – Misty Meadow Acres

1 Bag Peaches – IPM – Kauffman’s Fruit Farm

The Peaches over the last few weeks have been a hit (with me), but we’ll see how long it takes me to get sick of them! But they have been great for an afternoon snack or to cut up and put in a Smoothie. We got quite a few this week, so maybe I’ll make some kind of Peach Cobbler. I am super excited about the Watermelon. I cut into it and noticed there were seeds, so I was pretty bummed about that. So it took me quite a while to get all of the seeds out and cut it up.

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