Posts Tagged ‘Fresh herbs’
Herbed Veal Milanese
It is the fresh season, isn’t it? Herbs bursting into flower, tomatoes ripening, more zucchini, more cucumbers. It’s a challenge to use everything in different ways, at least for me. I love tomato salads, but everything in moderation, ok?
Veal Milanese is a flattened and breaded fillet, usually served on a bed of greens with chopped tomatoes. But, with all these herbs crying to be used, why not incorporate herbal flavors into the bread crumbs?
Summer Broiled Shrimp and Fresh Herbs
In the spring, a livelier palate changes on the burnish’d hearth
In the spring, a young cook’s fancy, lightly turns to to thoughts of grill.
Apologies to Alfred Lloyd Tennyson, but as soon as the warm weather comes I want to eat things light and barely cooked. I want to eat things from the sea, I want to eat grilled shrimp, and linguine with clam sauce, and those little crabs that come from the Veneto. And I obsessivley go online to find a cheap place to stay at the beach. So I guess spring has sprung into summer here in Montone and it’s about freakin’ time.
This is how we celebrated the arrival of warm sunshine with a dish that could be a light meal of its own, or served as a finger licking starter: Summer Broiled Shrimp and Fresh Herbs. Easy livin’.
Monday, Montone Weather Report: Taboulleh Salad
As part of my ongoing public service weather announcements, I declare it taboulleh season. There are more recipes for taboulleh than there are stars in the sky and just about as many ways to spell it. Here's my recipe for a most refreshing, clean, and maybe even healthy summer salad. Soak some bulghar wheat (yeah,…
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