It’s the 3rd week of salad. There was a grapefruit on the table for about 2 weeks now. I didn’t want it to go spoil so I decided to make a very simple salad with one of my favorite seafood, scallop.
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Day 13 Pesto Zucchini Salad
Genoa is known for many things and pesto is one of them. I’ve never found a place stateside that has made the same pesto sauce, creamy, light green, fresh basil taste. It always feels like old basil, dark and gloomy.
In Genoa, they use baby basil. That’s the key. Never use old basil to make pesto. And they love parmesan in the sauce.
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Day 12 Mushroom Mustard Salad
Many moons ago, for Memorial Day, my friends and I used to take a trip up to Bear Mountain to have a barbecue. We’d pack up food, drinks, and our dogs and take the hour long trek up away from the busy city life.
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Day 8 Meatball Salad
A new week of salad! The green market in Socrates Sculpture Park, Astoria returned this weekend for the summer. I went early in the morning on Saturday to see what fresh veggies I could snag. Of course, I think it would have been if I an idea of what recipes I would like to try to know what of the veggies to buy. There were just too many variety that I was unsure where to begin. I stuck to the basic and got arugula and mint.
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