Basil & Tomato Salad
Roger’s vegetable garden on the south side of the house, just up the hill from the Beverly Design Center, and down the hill from the Sunset Strip, had a grape vine, fresh tomatoes, Serrano chili pepper, red chili peppers, basil, rosemary and mint. Below the vegetables were rose bushes and day lily’s. It was private yet just feet from Santa Monica and The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. On one of the many days I stayed there when he and his husband were in Fiji, Puerto Rico, Brazil or some other tropical destination, I would make dinner from the garden.
Ingredients:
4-6 Vine Ripe Tomatoes
Olive Oil
Sea Salt
Balsamic Vinegar
1/3 cup Fresh Basil chopped
Directions:
Chop the tomatoes into relatively small chunks. Add the basil. Drizzle 2-3 tablespoons of olive oil over mixture and then sea salt to taste. I also like black pepper although I sometimes added minced fresh pepper from the garden, even some mint.
Or for a Caprese Salad, slice them and layer with circle slices of soft mozzarella cheese and whole basil leaves. Drizzle with Balslmaic vinaigrette. Roger always had some really good expensive Balslmaic. Lucky Me.
Images from Google Images except for Roger.
very nice still life shots!!! Cheers Nonoy Manga
Thank you friend.
ooooohhhhh yummy!!!!!!
Yes yummy, fresh and healthy. I feel like I hit the lottery, thanks for commenting thrice.
Loving it, I made something out of it and here is what I cam up!
1 1/2 cups kale, bite sized pieces
1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 chopped tomato
1 snap peas(handfull one)
3 Tbsp fresh basil grinded but not firmly
2 fresh parley and chopped it
Mixed it together and marinate for 20 mins then serve!
I didn’t cook it at all and make it perfectly for side dishes, and to reserve the benefits I can get from those herbs like basil because I’ve read from an article at http://organicindia.mercola.com/tulsi-tea.aspx that those herbs a re goo if it is freshly consumed!
Oh yes, thank you. No cooking required, just a great fresh salad. Your salad looks tasty too! Thanks for taking the time to share it with me.
Yummy!Great post.
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Cheers!
You are welcome.
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Thank you for the Reblog. My dearest departed friend loved his garden. So did the butterflies, dragon flies, birds and nature elementals.
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My kind of food, yum!
I would like to have some now. I had some great tasting homegrown tomatoes this year sadly not from Roger’s garden.
Due to their high nutritional value and being poor of calories, tomatoes should be eaten every day.
They are only good if homegrown. Farm grown doesn’t have the same flavor. Do you grow them?