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Hey Jon! New Fruit/Cheese Salad; Spanish recipe
Topic Started: Jul 22 2008, 06:26 AM (94 Views)
Mikhailoh
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While I am working and surfing I have this PBS 'Jose - Made in Spain' food show on. This looked good.


3 parts olive oil to one part cider or sherry vinegar, salt and pepper to taset.

Take a Granny Smith apple, core, peel and slice thinly on a mandoline. Lay in a plate and cover with vinaigrette.

Sprinkle with Cablarese blue cheese crumbles.

Top with grated Marcona almonds.
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jon-nyc
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YUM! THat does sound good.
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Mikhailoh
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Would be really good with just about anything but beef.
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Red Rice
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Why not just eat the apple? The other salad ingredients are gilding the lily.
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Mikhailoh
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Jul 22 2008, 10:36 AM
Why not just eat the apple? The other salad ingredients are gilding the lily.

Follow that logic out and see where it leads for cuisine in general. No seasonings, no combinations of ingredients. Ugh.
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Red Rice
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I wouldn't apply that to food in general. But fresh fruit is so good on its own that other ingredients diminish the taste. And slicing an apple thin on a mandoline reduces something that was once crisp and crunchy into something limp and not nearly as satisfying.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

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Mikhailoh
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I agree that fruit on it's own is great. I eat a LOT of it daily. Just finished oatmeal with blueberries, a nectarine and a few almonds. For a snack later I will probably have cherries and a little bit of cheese.

But whole and crunchy is simply one way to enjoy a Granny Smith. Not the only way. My daughter makes an incredible apple pie with them as well. Apples and cheeses are a match made in heaven, greater than the sum of the parts.

That is like saying 'Buy a book? Why? I already have a book'.
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Hey, is that show any good, Mik? I saw a listing for it, but it's not on my local PBS station (yet?!)
I love a good cooking show; done right, it can be really inspiring.

edit: speaking of Spanish cooking shows, I saw this book title in a catalogue of pre-orders for the fall that I've been going through (file that under tough job but someone's got to do it) "Spain.....a culinary road trip" by Mario Batali with Gwyneth Paltrow.
"eating through Spain." based on a 13 part series this fall on PBS.
Spain, on the road again

I'll be checking that out. :cool:
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The content was very good. The host, Jose? Not so much. His voice is almost a carciature of a foreigner, with a little New Yawk thrown in. A little annoying and abrasive, despite his obvious knowledge of Spain and its cuisine and his enthusasm for it.
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