Comments on: Insalata Caprese (or, Caprese Salad).

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:47:53 +0000

Candy, I won’t tell about your using a knife if you don’t tell anyone I made up the word “moosh”. ;)

I figure any method of getting fresh mozzarella on the dinner plate is a good method!

By: Candy

Candy — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:23:26 +0000

Amy – Thanks for the comment! Better late than never, haha! Thanks for the great tip too, I’ll have to look for one of those butter slicers sometime. I actually just made a caprese salad tonight, but in the laziest way possible – I tried slicing off mozzerella with a steak knife because I didn’t feel like using the cheese slicer. But hey, nobody saw it…

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:20:54 +0000

Sorry for such a delayed comment — I just recently stumbled upon your website (via Closet Cooking), so have been digging through the older posts. Love your blog!

Just wanted to offer another mozzarella tip: use a butter slicer (approx. 5-inch long metal contraption featuring several parallel metal wires). It’s essentially a mega-cheese slicer (for soft cheeses, at least). Just lay out your log of mozzarella, place the butter slicer on top, push down, and the entire log of cheese gets sliced at one time. (There might be a little moosh on each end, if you don’t trim it in advance, but there won’t be much.)

Keep up the great work — thanks for taking us along on your adventures!

By: You say tomato.. « Snap Happy Girl

You say tomato.. « Snap Happy Girl — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:16:26 +0000

[...] a new one that is ripe and ready to pick. I also planted basil in hopes that I would be making Caprese Salad when August rolled around. The basil is ready and fresh mozzarella has been bought. Feast your [...]

By: Candy

Candy — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:44:18 +0000

Thank you Kevin and Natasha!

By: Natasha - 5 Star Foodie

Natasha - 5 Star Foodie — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:31:17 +0000

Gorgeous tomatoes and the caprese salad looks excellent! It’s always my favorite!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:16:39 +0000

Great looking caprese salad!

By: Candy

Candy — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:07:19 +0000

Hi Jackie! Thanks for the comments. Yours looks fantastic too!

By: Jackie @ PhamFatale.com

Jackie @ PhamFatale.com — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:59:29 +0000

I love Caprese Salad and it’s so easy to make. Your tomatoes look out this world. I’m getting the seeds at TomatoGrowerSupply and gettting prepared to plant Ugly ripe next year. Check my “simple” version at http://www.phamfatale.com/id_320/title_How-to-make-an-Italian-Insalata-Caprese/

By: Candy

Candy — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:57:52 +0000

Irish Pirate – 50 varieties eh? Wegmans sells a bunch but I don’t know how many kinds, I bought 3 of the same kind for some strange reason. I was just drawn to the weird bulbous folds, haha!

By: Candy

Candy — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:56:24 +0000

Cookin Canuck – I’m jealous, you have your own garden! :) Ahh the tribulations of apartment living :P

Beth – Oh i hope you enjoy it!

SuperStud – Thanks for the compliment!

Liesl – Caprese salad is just really photogenic with all those colors. It’s hard not to get a good picture of it :)

Hummingbird – I ate one for dinner, then for my lunch the next day. I just don’t get tired of it…

By: Hummingbird Appetite

Hummingbird Appetite — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:49:31 +0000

Caprese is one of my favorite salads. I could it any day for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

By: Liesl

Liesl — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:43:20 +0000

I love caprese salad! And you make it look so good with your photos!!!! I love heirloom tomatoes too!! Yours are so pretty!

By: SuperStud

SuperStud — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:33:45 +0000

Now I’m hungry!! This looks great, excellent pictures too by the way. The first display is awesome!

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:40:13 +0000

I just found some uglyripe heirlooms at my local Krogers! I picked one up to try out.

By: IrishPirate

IrishPirate — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:06:59 +0000

We used to sell tons of different kinds of heirloom tomatoes when I worked at a garden center. Who knew there were probably almost 50 different kinds of tomatoes??

By: Cookin' Canuck

Cookin' Canuck — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:46:35 +0000

Those tomatoes are gorgeous! This is my favorite thing to make with tomatoes and basil from my garden. There’s nothing like the sweetness of a tomato still warm from the sun.

By: Candy

Candy — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:38:49 +0000

I’ve always made it with regular tomatoes in the past too. Enjoy! :)

By: smallangie

smallangie — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:27:51 +0000

Looks delicious! Although I don’t have heirlooms, I am going to try making it with regular tomatoes. Thanks.

By: Candy

Candy — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:18:00 +0000

Chiara – I was trying to have Peaches and Monkey get married so they aren’t just ‘living in sin’ together. But my husband says I can’t marry the cats against their will! Hehehe….

Chris – Thank you! I love simple too.

Jen – I love it too! I ate that entire plate by myself, btw :)