tomato sculpture

I was brows­ing the web for recipes for cap­rese salad, the clas­sic salad of Capri using plum toma­toes, moz­zarella, basil, olive oil salt and pep­per. I didn’t encounter any rev­e­la­tions as far as ingre­di­ents or pro­por­tions, but I found sev­eral images of a pre­sen­ta­tion method where the tomato was sliced and then reassem­bled with slices of the cheese and basil interfiled.

Caprese salad tomato tower

Cap­rese salad tomato tower

Cool, I thought. But what if you use two toma­toes of dif­fer­ent col­ors? Here’s a first draft of this idea, using Mr. Stripey with the first fruit from Chero­kee Purple.

Before I add this to the menu at Spago, I’d try to be sure the toma­toes were more sim­i­lar in both size and shape. Also, cleaner, more uni­form cuts through the buf­falo moz­zarella would have made for a neater pre­sen­ta­tion.

July 28 2008 04:17 am | Categories: rambles | Tags: • • • • • •

2 Responses to “tomato sculpture”

  1. Mary Ann on 28 Jul 2008 at 4:41 am #

    Oh my. That looks sooo good.

  2. Greg on 02 Aug 2008 at 9:51 pm #

    I bet it was damn tasty, though.

Trackback URI | Comments RSS

Leave a Reply