If you’re not sure about this, start small. Try a spinach salad tossed with nuts like walnuts or pecans and sliced strawberries and a sweet balsamic with a little grated romano. Seriously, give it a go, it’s healthy and tastes amazing.
Remember, tomato is a fruit, it’s just not sweet. But we then add heaps of sugar to tomato sauce to make it sweet. Fruit like strawberry is already sweetened, it makes perfect sense on paper.
What’s throwing everyone is that our first experiences with sweet fruit flavors is always candy or pastries and we have a hard time shaking that association as strictly appropriate.
If you’re not sure about this, start small. Try a spinach salad tossed with nuts like walnuts or pecans and sliced strawberries and a sweet balsamic with a little grated romano. Seriously, give it a go, it’s healthy and tastes amazing.
Remember, tomato is a fruit, it’s just not sweet. But we then add heaps of sugar to tomato sauce to make it sweet. Fruit like strawberry is already sweetened, it makes perfect sense on paper.
What’s throwing everyone is that our first experiences with sweet fruit flavors is always candy or pastries and we have a hard time shaking that association as strictly appropriate.
Shitty supermarket tomatoes aren’t sweet. Homegrown tomatoes can be very sweet and very delicious.
I absolutely do not use heaps of sugar to make my tomato sauce.
Good, but it is normal so I was speaking broadly.
The Italian version linked above is a dessert/ sweet breakfast treat:
(Translated to English by Google)
Ingredients: Strawberry Pasta
200g farfalle (pasta)
125g strawberries
100g goat cheese
2 tablespoons milk
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/2 lemon zest
2 tablespoons cooking cream (preferably UHT)
2 sprigs of mint
[add seven cups of high fructose corn syrup if serving to Americans]
Aside from the Americanized version, that sounds wonderful, I love the inclusion of mint.
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