My homage to summer.
Fresh salad of juicy tomatoes and crisp apples with herbal hints of lemon and anise…
Rockfish (striped bass) steams in a firey-hot oven — creating texture like cool, sweetcream butter…
Please add Verbena to your herb garden!
Ingredients: [‘water’, ‘tomato paste’, ‘lemon verbena’, ‘lemon zest’, ‘extra virgin olive oil’, ‘cucumber’, ‘apples’, ‘beefsteak tomato’, ‘cherry tomatoes’, ‘fresh parsley’, ‘fresh basil’, ‘salt and pepper’, ‘rockfish’]
Quantity of Ingredients: [“1/2 cup water”,”1/2 teaspoon tomato paste (I use the handy squeeze tubes now!)”,”4 small lemon verbena, sprigs “,”1/2 teaspoon lemon zest”,”1/8 cup extra virgin olive oil”,”1 cucumber (Seeds removed, very small dice)”,”2 apples (Braeburns are my favorite(peeled and very small dice-about 1/2 cup)”,”1 beefsteak tomato (peeled, seeds removed very small dice(try “Brandywine”” or “”Prudenu0027s purple”” varieties)””
Number of Servings: 2 teaspoons fresh parsley (chopped)””
Steps: 1 tablespoon fresh basil (chiffonade)””