{"id":5465,"date":"2014-08-25T18:11:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T00:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=5465"},"modified":"2015-10-24T18:24:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T00:24:16","slug":"summer-salads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=5465","title":{"rendered":"Summer Salads"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"rss\"<\/a>

Hello, how are you?\u00a0 I hope that\u00a0your summer has been spectacular.\u00a0 In a little less than one month from today, summer will officially be over.\u00a0 Keith & I have been celebrating the fine weather by\u00a0travelling, kayaking, drinking mojitos, making s’mores, gardening,\u00a0taking Ollie dog on extra walks (or carrying him back home because he’s too hot), hanging out with\u00a0friends, and basically\u00a0doing what the Italians call dolce far niente.\u00a0 <\/em>The sweetness of doing nothing.\u00a0 Since it has been pretty hot lately, I’d like to share the three salads that have been on rotation at the Button Hill:\u00a0 cantaloupe-cucumber-feta, watermelon-lime-feta, and tomato salad.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Cantaloupe-Cucumber-Feta<\/em><\/p>\n

\"tomatomelonsalad\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I usually make a vinaigrette dressing for this salad.\u00a0 3 parts oil to 1 part vinegar.\u00a0 Add minced garlic, salt, pepper, and oregano.\u00a0 Sometimes, I use basil instead of oregano.\u00a0 It goes really well with the melon.<\/p>\n

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Watermelon-Feta-Lime Salad<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"watermelonsalad\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is one of my favorite combinations.\u00a0 The lime juice intensifies the flavor of the watermelon.\u00a0 A sprinkling of feta cheese mellows down the acid from the\u00a0lime juice\u00a0and balances the sweetness of the watermelon.<\/p>\n

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Caprese Salad<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"caprese\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The caprese is our favorite salad.\u00a0 Sometimes we leave out the balsamic vinegar to savor the flavor of our favorite olive oil.\u00a0 Other times, we turn it into panzanella.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Just add\u00a0torn up pieces of bread, garlic, and red onions.\u00a0 Cheers!<\/p>\n

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Hello, how are you?\u00a0 I hope that\u00a0your summer has been spectacular.\u00a0 In a little less than one month from today, summer will officially be over.\u00a0 Keith & I have been celebrating the fine weather by\u00a0travelling, kayaking, drinking mojitos, making s’mores, gardening,\u00a0taking Ollie dog on extra walks (or carrying him back home because he’s too hot), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[681,680,200,26,679],"class_list":["post-5465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-cooking","tag-cantaloupe","tag-feta-cheese","tag-salad","tag-tomatoes","tag-watermelon","has-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5465"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5770,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions\/5770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}