Tomato bruschetta is summer on a plate. If you grow your own tomatoes or buy them fresh off the vine at a farmers market, you won’t need to do much more than chop, salt, and spoon them over toasted slices of ciabatta, flavored with a little garlic and olive oil. A chiffonade of basil over…
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Peach Caprese Salad
Do you have access to two sweet, ripe peaches, grown by a farmer within your area code? Rinse, dry, and quarter them, and then array them like a first grader’s idea of the sun on a plate. Is basil still growing in a pot on your backyard deck? No? Has the sun fried it? Can…
Shrimp and Basil Pasta
I keep a couple of bags of shrimp in the freezer just so I can make this recipe on days I’m trying to avoid the grocery store, like senior citizen discount Tuesdays. I also make it because it’s so good. Now, to produce this on a whim requires just a little forethought, which takes some…
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