Simplicity

5 days ago

I have been occupying my refrigerator with many jars of colorful purees for my fruit design experiments. There's plenty of good food, but not much room for cooked, so for myself, I've been making a lot of sandwiches. I mean more than normal. The kind that have all the food groups plus pickles. But I've been over busy, and there's no bread, today. Maybe tomorrow. This afternoon, I found a few brioche buns.

Pre-sundown snack (late small lunch?) became the simplest sandwich (other than just cheese) I've made in forever and it was SO GOOD! Just bun half, salted cultured butter and a pile of baby spinach. So delicious! So satisfying! Sometimes I forget to go simple. :) No pix. I ate it. :)

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agmss15

4 days ago

I am a month out of chemo. I had been avoiding (for the most part) raw vegetables and unpeeled fruits especially away from home. Now adding them back to daily meals.

So my current favorite simple meal is fresh mozzarella and local tomatoes with salt pepper and olive oil. Whatever berries I can pick with plain yogurt - currently blackberries, blueberries and a small number of late strawberries. Your butter and spinach sandwich has gotten me thinking of radish and butter sandwiches. Salad turnips are good too.

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hobbitmom
5 days ago
Sounds good! Every once in a while I will put a scoop of leftover salad on a mayo'ed bun. Or just mayo and a pefectly ripe tomato, salt/pepper on good bread. Also, I like one egg fried very hard, on mayo'ed bread. I was on an avocado toast kick for a while, but Im done with that. I agree. Simplicity can be very satisfying, indeed.
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orchidrain
5 days ago
Oh, I hear ya! My latest obsession is a slice of toasted Italian boule, smeared with butter and slices of home grown tomatoes, pinch of salt. Yum, I even have my sister loving it.
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Islay Corbel
4 days ago
Got me thinking. The French eat radishes and butter with bread and it's really good!
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chloebud
4 days ago
For simple, my lunch yesterday was cubed watermelon and feta...a lot of it!
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colleenoz
4 days ago
If we’re getting lunch from our local deli, I often go for a salad sandwich with hommous instead of mayo. Really yummy!
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laceyvail 6A, WV
3 days ago
I've had the most enormous cucumber harvest from just two plants, have given away and am still giving away gallons and gallons, and have gotten myself addicted to tzatziki. Oh my, it's good.
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NiCOZ5
3 days ago
:0) Sounds yummy!

I was craving pickles earlier today...I want salt! Maybe that should be a light snack...:0)
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chloebud
2 days ago
“…and have gotten myself addicted to tzatziki.”

YES…really good!
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plllog
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2 days ago
last modified: 2 days ago
As a palate cleanser, this is my favorite cucumber salad to make:

The smallest setting on the paddle mandolin, or the thinnest you can slice, best if the slices are translucent. Let weep using whatever method works for you--samll Persians or Armenians barely weep, but are delicious this way. Enflish seem not to weep, but sprinkle a little vinegar to mak sure.

Dressing, good olive oil to taste (i.e., EVOO but you can thin it with regular or lite olive oil if it's too intense) and sharp red wine vinegar (I use Pompeian--my "good" red wine vinegar is too mellow for this), herbs and seasoning to suit. I tend to just use Fines Herbs or Herbs de Province or a similar blend, but you can put in whatever you think goes well. I don't use garlic just so not everything is soaked in garlic, but it goes very well otherwise.

Use a bowl or container with a tight cover. Mix the cucumbers well with the dressing, but just enough dressing to spread the herbs around--the cucumbers will weep more when they're exposed to the vinegar. Let settle for about 10 minutes (i.e., while you clean the kitchen) then invert the lidded bowl, and refrigerate overnight or at least a couple of hours.