So I'm cooking for 1 since Ro is traveling - and didn't have much time to cook tonight, so I used some ingredients I had on hand and made up noodles and a caprese salad.
We usually don't have "real" mozzarella on hand, but I made a quick run to the grocery store yesterday so just picked up a small package. (You have to go "real" here folks - it tastes so much better!)
I used fresh basil leaves -- you could probably put pesto on top instead, but I wanted to have "healthy lettuce" for salads this week! Just throw it in a salad spinner to keep it fresh all week long :)
Ingredients:
4 ripe medium tomatoes
4 ripe medium tomatoes
Salt and pepper (to taste)
Mozzarella cheese (tube like form – Costco)
Fresh basil leaves
4 Tbsp EVOO
4 Tbsp balsamic vinegar
Quarter tomatoes and thinly slice. Divide tomato slices evenly among four salad plates. Sprinkle tomato slices with salt and pepper.
Slice mozzarella into 8 slices. Top each plate of tomatoes slices with a slice of cheese.
Roll basil leaves into a tight cylinder and slice crosswise into thin strips to make about ½ cup. Sprinkle basil evenly atop each salad. Then drizzle 1 tablespoon of olive oil and 1 tablespoon of vinegar over each salad. Then top salad with salt and pepper again – and you are ready to eat!
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