Late summer. Long hot days. Cool evenings.
We ate outside at our little table under the trees.
A simple pasta dish. We used pappardelle, those broad strips of egg pasta that don't need much in the way of a sauce as they are delicious - you can eat them with a coating of olive oil.
Tossed them in the last of the latest batch of home-made pesto (basil from the garden - eat, eat, eat, there's lots more! - pinenuts from the Turkish foodstore, garlic, olive oil), and then placed tomato and thin slices of kasseri, the piquant Greek cheese over the top.
The tomato salad: simple but fragrant and delicious. Dice some fresh, red tomatoes and a salad onion (any onion is OK). Toss them together with a handful of finely chopped parsley and, if you have it, some coriander or mint or both.
Squeeze a lemon over it.
It's perfect with grills but we ate it as a side salad with our pasta. Oops, tomato in both dishes, dinner party error!
And a glass of cold white wine.
We ate outside at our little table under the trees.
A simple pasta dish. We used pappardelle, those broad strips of egg pasta that don't need much in the way of a sauce as they are delicious - you can eat them with a coating of olive oil.
Tossed them in the last of the latest batch of home-made pesto (basil from the garden - eat, eat, eat, there's lots more! - pinenuts from the Turkish foodstore, garlic, olive oil), and then placed tomato and thin slices of kasseri, the piquant Greek cheese over the top.
The tomato salad: simple but fragrant and delicious. Dice some fresh, red tomatoes and a salad onion (any onion is OK). Toss them together with a handful of finely chopped parsley and, if you have it, some coriander or mint or both.
Squeeze a lemon over it.
It's perfect with grills but we ate it as a side salad with our pasta. Oops, tomato in both dishes, dinner party error!
And a glass of cold white wine.
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