1 hour ago, Kim Shook said:@liamsaunt – that burrata salad looks gorgeous. One of my favorite foods.
@kayb – we did the Olive Garden thing a few weeks back (gift card from a sweet, non-food person) and had the same reaction. My town is big enough that we have quite a few medium range Italian restaurants with good food. And yet every time you drive past the OG lot is FULL. I have an otherwise lovely niece who was stationed in Germany and every time she came home she couldn’t wait to go to OG
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@Shelby - I keep meaning to ask you. I know that you peel your tomatoes. I was raised by a grandmother who thought that women who didn't peel their tomatoes were slatterns.
I detest the texture of a tomato skin - especially in a sandwich. But I am terrible at peeling them. If I'm going to cook with them, I just do the boiling water trick, but don't like that with raw tomatoes. What knife/tool do you use to get them peeled so nicely?
Jessica was over for a “Good-bye to summer dinner”. We started off with pimento cheese & pork rinds and Fritos & clam dip:
BLT’s:
With some marinated cukes and awful tomatoes:
Good corn:
Dessert:
And Alexa playing the Beach Boys.
Your mother and I must be related 
( the word slattern does not get used enough in every day talk. I must remedy that.)
I learned a trick from my mom, I'm sure she learned it from her mom etc. Hold the tomato in one hand and lightly run the back edge of your knife from the crown to the bottom with your other hand. Repeat until you get all the way around the tomato. This loosens the skin from the flesh. Then, I poke the bottom of the tomato to get under the skin and peel it all off.
Ronnie thought I had drank too much wine and I was using the wrong side of the knife the first time he saw me do that lol.
Try it, it works--UNLESS the 'maters are really hard....like the store bought kind sometimes are.
I haven't eaten at Olive Garden for many years, but I did used to like their salad. Maybe it's changed now.
