Starting from pesto, we went to pasta and then a beautiful salad, and then a baguette was added as well.
Pesto Pasta
Ingredients:
1½ cups fresh basil
1 cup Italian parsley
4 garlic cloves, peeled
2 cups walnut pieces
1 teaspoon kosher salt
½ cup olive oil
1 cup Pecorino Romano, grated (we used Parmesan)
Directions:
Put the pasta of your choice on the stove to boil
Put all pesto ingredients except the cheese into a food processor and pulse until uniformly paste-like
In a large bowl, toss pesto and approximately half a cup of the cooked pasta water (to make it creamy, so you can use less or more water depending on how you like it)
Use additional pesto to spread on baguette and anything else that comes your way
Source: http://www.lidiasitaly.com/recipes/detail/280
Summer Salad
Ingredients:
1 (ripe) mango cubed
1 (ripe) avocado cubed
Quarter of a red onion (maybe even less) sliced thinly
Fresh blueberries (amount to your taste)
Fresh strawberries (amount to your taste, we recommend most of a quart of strawberries) chopped
1 cup crumbled feta
Baby spinach
Dressing:
2.5 tbsps vegetable oil (although the original calls for olive oil)
1.5 tbsps fresh lemon juice
2 tbsps apple cider vinegar (you can probably use something else but that's what we used and it was so good!)
2 tsps brown sugar
A little bit of salt (to taste)
Directions:
Throw the spinach, chopped mango, chopped avocado, strawberries, blueberries, onion, and feta together. Pour dressing on top and eat the entire bowl.
Inspired by: http://www.the36thavenue.com/2013/06/spinach-salad-recipe.html
Put the pasta of your choice on the stove to boil
Put all pesto ingredients except the cheese into a food processor and pulse until uniformly paste-like
In a large bowl, toss pesto and approximately half a cup of the cooked pasta water (to make it creamy, so you can use less or more water depending on how you like it)
Use additional pesto to spread on baguette and anything else that comes your way
Source: http://www.lidiasitaly.com/recipes/detail/280
Summer Salad
Ingredients:
1 (ripe) mango cubed
1 (ripe) avocado cubed
Quarter of a red onion (maybe even less) sliced thinly
Fresh blueberries (amount to your taste)
Fresh strawberries (amount to your taste, we recommend most of a quart of strawberries) chopped
1 cup crumbled feta
Baby spinach
Dressing:
2.5 tbsps vegetable oil (although the original calls for olive oil)
1.5 tbsps fresh lemon juice
2 tbsps apple cider vinegar (you can probably use something else but that's what we used and it was so good!)
2 tsps brown sugar
A little bit of salt (to taste)
Directions:
Throw the spinach, chopped mango, chopped avocado, strawberries, blueberries, onion, and feta together. Pour dressing on top and eat the entire bowl.
Inspired by: http://www.the36thavenue.com/2013/06/spinach-salad-recipe.html
