I hate wasting food so I’m always looking for ways to use up bits of this or that in our day to day meals. I made a caprese salad inspired pizza yesterday that was reeeallly good and still had half the heirloom tomato, some basil, and some of the mozzarella left from that meal.
I had an open face breakfast sandwich with mozzarella and tomato grilled on half a thin sandwich bun. It was a lovely fresh start to the day and surprisingly filling and satisfying. The rest of the tomato, along with another regular tomato, and some of the mozzarella were used to make this twist on a traditional caprese salad.
So easy! Because of the shape of the heirloom and the fact that I had it and a more traditional tomato to use, instead of slicing I chopped everything in to small bite size pieces. Dressed it lightly with some fine ribbons of basil, salt and pepper, good EVOO and balsamic vinegar and we had a delicious “left-over” salad to go with a meal.
I know you have been creative using left over ingredients-what was your most ingenious creation?
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