Caprese
118 recipes
Caprese Tortellini Salad
This satisfying pasta salad uses cheese-filled tortellini combined with Caprese flavors, because you can never have too much cheese!
Avocado, Tomato, Mozzarella and Basil Pasta Salad with Pine Nuts
A Caprese salad with even more...add avocado, pine nuts and some bowtie pasta...a perfect side dish.
Caprese Stuffed Baked Potatoes
For a special side, try these Caprese Stuffed Baked Potatoes with Basil, Sun-dried Tomatoes and Fresh Basil; they make anything less look boring!
Caprese Salad
Caprese Salad It's a quick and classical Italian dish, which I make often in a summer after work. I'm the biggest fan of mozzarella an...
Mini Caprese Zucchini
These make a fun first course in the summer - or side dish. The sauce cooks with the squash. Use any color squash you like.
Caprese Pasta Salad with Salami
This is almost a no-cook pasta salad.... You could make the pasta ahead and just toss with a tbs of olive oil until ready to assemble.
Turkey Pesto Rolls
These are easy to make with thinly sliced turkey cutlets. (sliced turkey breast meat). We had the other 1/2 of the avocado with a Caprese Salad to start.
Caprese Lettuce Salad with Ham
This is the perfect hot weather salad. I buy a thick slice of ham at the deli counter. I used mini-mozzarella, but a regular one, cut or torn into chunks would work as well.
Caprese Burgers; meanderings
Caprese Burgers, with tomato, fresh mozzarella and basil tucked between two beef burgers
Warm Caprese Salad
Warm Caprese Salad, using the last of the season's tomatoes, slightly warmed over fresh mozzarella
Caprese Mini Frittatas; the best sunset
Caprese Mini Frittatas - Everything is mini: cherry tomatoes, mozzarella balls, Greek olives. These are great for breakfast or snacks or nibbles
Zucchini Caprese Boats, meanderings
Zucchini Caprese Boats, filled with Prosciutto, tomatoes and mozzarella, with red pesto sauce
Fried Tomatoes alla Romano; tomato addiction lives on
Fried green tomatoes meets Caprese salad with a stop off at Vitello Romano. Or something like that…. Okay, so it's not an Italian recipe – but it would be if they'd thought of it…. Supermarket tomatoes work well for this. Nice, juicy vine-ripened tomatoes (sigh…) really aren't the thing for frying. Fried Tomatoes alla ... Continue reading...
Caprese Salad with Gnocchi; eating packaged foods
A long time ago, in a place far, far away, in another life, I went to a restaurant show. Not the kind of restaurant show for the general public; the kind of restaurant show for people whose business was restaurants: People who sold to, bought for, managed or owned restaurants. The one fact that I ... Continue reading...
Barley with Tomatoes and Mozzarella; puppy update
We all know I love barley. And that I’m rather fond of Caprese Salad. Well, why not? Barley with Tomatoes and Mozzarella 1/2 cup quick-cooking barley 1 cup (250ml) chicken stock 1/2 cup cherry tomatoes, quartered 1/2 cup mozzarella balls, cut in half 2 tbs fresh, snipped chives 2 tbs fresh, snipped basil 2 tbs ... Continue reading...
Caprese Cocktail; Freezing Tomatoes
In addition to my 3 cherry tomato plants I have a few regular-size tomatoes: 2 yellow, 3 orange (1 was mis-labeled) 1 black, (should have had 2 – see orange) 2 red, 2 beefsteak and 3 Roma. All the tomatoes have been ripening steadily this week so I have been busy freezing them. The easiest ... Continue reading...
Fried Tomatoes with Mozzarella and the Weekly Menu Planner
This is the antithesis of the Caprese Salad. And it's not 'Fried Green Tomatoes', either. It's everything that one does not, normally, want. But, I'm not getting a decent spring, now, either, am I? Fried Tomatoes with Fresh Mozzarella You want rather hard, supermarket tomatoes for this, not nice, fresh garden ones and cow's milk ... Continue reading...