Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Tomato, cucumber, and basil salad

It's finally tomato season in Michigan...last week at dinner, Sami brought a tomato salad (tomatoes, basil, and cucumbers from his garden with some fresh mozzarella in a balsamic vinegar dressing) and my sister made the same thing last night (except her version had marinated mozzarella....hmmm good stuff, wish I could get it out here).  This has always been a favorite of mine, so I decided to make my version for dinner with some additional lettuce...it's similar to the cucumber, tomato and avocado salad.


Ingredients:
  • 1 large tomato, diced
  • 10 basil leaves, cut into slices
  • 1/2 a cucumber, diced
  • 2 lettuce leaves, cut into slices
  • 2 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon of olive oil
  • salt, black pepper, thyme
  • 1/4 cup of almonds
  • 1/3 cup of diced mozzarella

I mixed up the olive and vinegar with a little salt, thyme, and black pepper and then tossed with the rest of the ingredients.  It's nice when something that tastes so good only takes like 2 minutes to make.

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