{"id":1012,"date":"2007-08-05T02:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-05T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:32:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:32:07","slug":"perfect-summer-supper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":"Perfect summer supper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/IMG_2845-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095014405873501986\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/IMG_2845-copy-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Fresh mozzarella, tomatoes fresh from the garden, and just picked sweet basil &#8211; can culinary perfection come any more simply?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve become totally spoiled by handmade fresh mozzarella in the last year. I&#8217;ve always loved mozzarella &#8211; the milkiness and nutty flavor of the fresh stuff is just so delicious! Growing up I remember how I loved to pilfer a few slices of the Polly-O brand my dad made lasanga with &#8211; I don&#8217;t think I could ever go back to eating that. For years I looked forward to the fresh mozzarella my Italian sister-in-law would have on holidays from her old neighborhood in Staten Island &#8211; even that can&#8217;t compare to this stuff!<\/p>\n<p>I like to cut it in large chunks and mix with quartered tomatoes and fresh basil with a sprinkle of balsamic and lots of black pepper. Roasted sweet peppers are a nice addition, I think, if you have them handy.<\/p>\n<p>My only complaint is that you really can&#8217;t refrigerate the stuff without the flavor being affected. My DH and I mix it up early and then *graze* throughout the day and night so that it&#8217;s gone before bed. Once decent tomatoes are available, we&#8217;ll have this treat most summer weekends. Yummmmm.<\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s your idea of the perfect summer supper?<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh mozzarella, tomatoes fresh from the garden, and just picked sweet basil &#8211; can culinary perfection come any more simply? I&#8217;ve become totally spoiled by handmade fresh mozzarella in the last year. I&#8217;ve always loved mozzarella &#8211; the milkiness and nutty flavor of the fresh stuff is just so delicious! Growing up I remember how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1012\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perfect summer supper<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}