My mom use to make this zucchini dish when I was a child. I just remember how great the gooey goodness of vegetables with cheese was! This is an updated & lighter version. I tossed it with some pasta ….. light and easy for a hot summer night.
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Made a Fantastic Eggplant Parmesan – fantastic, really!!!! It had a slightly spicy tomato base sauce. I used some dry farmed tomatoes I had frozen from last winter – very very flavorable . Then we moved to a grilled Niman Ranch Chili Marinated Beef Bavette, which I found when I picked up the lamb sausage. This cut was incredibly tender & juicy with excellend flavor - one of our new summer time favorite cuts for the grill! Really tasty! We had a salad course next. Baby butter lettuce with some chopped up baby red onions and fennel. I made a balsamic goat cheese dressing & sprinkled the crazy black salt flakes, I found last week, over the top – yum! For dessert I whipped up some Vanilla Bean ice cream!
One of my favorite stand-by tomato sauces served with an assortment of pasta that I have left over and I tossed some little pearl size mozzarellas over it – I LOVED how they found their way into some of the orrichette pasta! Next we had a butter-leaf lettuce salad served with a simple vinaigrette and sprinkled with a black flake salt I found at Whole Foods and a loaf of bread. Dessert was a plum and apricot clafouti – I used this pear clafouti recipe by the wonderful Barefoot Contessa; but, I substituted 1/2 of the cream for half and half and instead of brandy I used some Portuguese Passion Fruit Liquor.
Made a green lentil salad with shallots, cherry tomatoes, fresh mint and feta cheese – tossed with a classic vinaigrette that I make. I served it with a baguette, first of the season figs, goat cheese and a very nice white Bordeaux.
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