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This year I decided that I would nix the beefsteak tomatoes that I normally plant in my garden and focus solely on growing cherry and grape tomatoes. I love a big, hearty tomato as much as the next gal, but we seem to eat them a lot less frequently than the smaller varieties, and I knew I wasn't going to be up for canning any this season because my work load is triple compared to this time last year. But lo and behold, to my surprise, I ended up with large tomatoes in the garden anyway. They must have been improperly marked at the nursery when I bought them in the spring, but it's one of those things where you just have to roll with it. Kind of like when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. When the garden gods give you big fat tomatoes, you make White Bean, Tomato and Blue Cheese Salad, a colorful and flavorful recipe that you can find right on Golden Blossom Honey's website.
As many of us are experiencing record high temperatures, we're turning to lighter, easy to prepare dishes like this one. Normally I am not one to eat onions raw in any form, but oddly enough, I found them very satisfying to chomp on in this salad. This is a recipe that you can have on the table from start to finish in about 10 minutes, and best of all, there's hardly any stove top time involved in the prep process. And with the heat waves rippling across the globe, this is a recipe we can all get behind until Mother Nature gives us a little cooling relief!
Ingredients
Dressing
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 large clove of garlic, minced
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
2 tablespoons GOLDEN BLOSSOM HONEY
salt and pepper to taste
Salad
2 (16 ounce) cans cannellini or great northern beans, rinsed and drained
2 cups plum tomatoes, diced
1/4 cup red onion, finely chopped
1/2 cup blue cheese, crumbled
1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped
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Have you ever had an unexpected growth in your garden?
Well sometimes surprises are the way, or like you say, just have to deal with them. Triple the work load triple the dough haha
ReplyDeleteThat's a positive way to look at it LOL
DeleteIt is so lovely that you have them in your garden! Back when I was little we would sometimes find yellow tomatoes growing next to our red ones, and it was always a lovely surprise. It is crazy hot here as well, we are currently under a heat wave called Lucifer for appropriate reasons, it is well over 40 degrees Celsius outside, everything is dead or dying. Even my kittens just lie around refusing to move.
ReplyDeletePoor kitties! Did I tell you we got 2 new kitties? Emily is pissed!
DeleteWe had a tomato plant start to grow in the mulch under our office window in the front of our house. At that time, we had only ever grown tomatoes in pots on the deck in the back. I’ve also had marigolds turn up in unexpected places.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if it was the byproduct of a squirrel pooping out tomato seeds and that's where they decided to pop up?
DeleteI like that it's fast to make. No one wants to be standing around in the kitchen in this heat! Of course, my opinion is skewed because my a/c is waiting for a repair person to come fix it (every July or August it goes on the fritz, I guess the heat is too much for it, but hello, that's your job a/c). ;) That's funny about the tomatoes. Life's garden surprises. :) Have a wonderful weekend!!
ReplyDeleteUgh! How can they not prepare for the influx of broken AC units every summer? How crummy you have to suffer through the heat and be at their whim on fixing it every year :(
DeleteGracias por la receta. Te mando un beso.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome! Enjoy :)
DeleteI greatly dislike blue cheese but the other ingredients sound good.
ReplyDeleteI don't think there's middle ground on blue cheese. It's one either you love or despise.
DeleteThat looks really good. It'd be a great dish to take to a cookout or potluck.
ReplyDeleteIndeed it would!
DeleteSending Positive Colorado Vibes
ReplyDeleteCheers
Thanks, Padre!
DeleteIt looks yummy! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteThis looks delicious, but I'd have to swap the blue cheese for something else. Maybe a goat cheese? We've had surprise tomato plants too! One year, when we moved into our old house, we were surprised by onion plants that happen to pop up in the Spring.
ReplyDeleteGotta love free food surprises! Goat cheese would definitely work here. Feta, too. I think any strong cheese would be a great substitute.
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