Posted on 09/03/2019 6:16:33 AM PDT by NOBO2012
I know its nice to have warning in order to prepare, but for our friends in Florida, Georgia, South and now North Carolina, along with their anxious relatives elsewhere, in must seem as if theyve been waiting on Dorian for a month now. Being caught in a real life Groundhog Day is exhausting. To all who find themselves in the path of the storm, Im certain your fellow MOTI will keep you in their prayers.
So for todays diversion Im just going to assemble my panzanella salad for you. I made this last Friday, when the weather was perfect and deck dining at its peak. Im glad I didnt wait for Labor Day as it began to rain at precisely the time we fired up the grill. Wouldnt be a holiday weekend without rain, and the rest of it had been beautiful so we were due.
Anyway, heres my panzanella: very simple, all you have to do is procure fresh, preferably homegrown ingredients and get your chopping board out. I dont have a recipe, just a list of ingredients.
Start with tomatoes; I used pear, cherry and half of a beefsteak, left over from lunch:
Slivered red onions:
cucumbers:
basil:
which is growing with reckless abandon on my deck right now.
Then the key ingredient, day old, really good bread, torn or cubed, as you may remember from my Ann Arbor rant last week, this is Zingermans Paesano:
Next, I just drizzle it with a bit of vinegar and toss of bit. Red wine vinegar is traditional but I use Fini balsamic, which I forgot to get a picture of, but you can see it there in the shadows if you squint and look carefully. You dont need much, but bring the bottle to the table in case somebody wants more. Ditto the olive oil.
Now add extra virgin olive oil, salt, pepper to taste and toss again.
If you want, add a handful of arugula,
its good, not withstanding Barry.
Serve immediately, here with corn fresh off the cob and grilled gravlax ala Raj (lightly cured salmon, just warmed through on the grill).
Panzanella - its not the prettiest salad - that would be my Nicoise
- but its definitely one of the tastiest youll ever have. And very forgiving. Some people add bell peppers, make a vinaigrette, even toast the bread, none of that is necessary in my humble opinion. Keep it simple, stupid. The world would be a much better place if people just remembered that simple axiom from early IT code writing days.
Of course even the programmers quickly abandoned the principle and thats why we have Windows 10 today.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
I just had breakfast, but suddenly Im hungry.
Annnnnnd tracking.
Simple code, with pre-production security review, and QC that includes backward/sideward/frontward compatibility.....definitely NOT windows 10.
Operating system as a service, the holy grail of OS marketing.
KYPD
We don’t buy an OS, we just rent them............
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