Red, White, Blue – It’s a Festive Foodie Friday!
Salut! Happy Friday and happy 4th weekend! I always think of food first for the holidays and July 4th is no exception being the best summer holiday. Even though I’m going to try and be healthy, this weekend is going to do nothing good for my waistline. Oh well, I’m living la vie en Rose! No, seriously, I’ve got two bottles of nice Rosé waiting for me this weekend. Red, white, blue – it’s a festive foodie Friday!
Red
The strawberries looked beautiful at the grocery, and the raspberries too. What about a tomato salad for a beautiful red dish? Keep it simple and let the tomatoes shine. Use a variety, hopefully that you find at the farmers market. A perfect summer salad. We’ll have this with our burgers and potatoes for dinner on the 4th.
Tomato Salad
Ingredients
- 3 cups tomatoes, a variety sliced, quartered, cut into bite size pieces
- ½ cup red pepper chopped
- ¼ cup red onion chopped
- 2 tbsp fresh herbs your choice
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- salt & pepper to taste
Instructions
- Place tomatoes, red pepper and red onion in a bowl. Add herbs, olive oil and vinegar, toss to combine. Salt and pepper to taste.
Notes
White
In Wednesdays post I mentioned a Rosemary Rhubarb cake. Dusted with powdered sugar, it would be a perfect white recipe. Pretty little white meringues would be a great addition too. Using a star tip to pipe them out they kinda look like stars too! You could always put them along side some blueberries and raspberries for something red, white and blue. And for some extra pop! I added some white pepper, why not?
White Pepper Meringues
Ingredients
- 4 large egg whites room temp
- ¼ tsp cream of tartar
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp white pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 225 F and line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Combine egg whites, cream of tartar and salt in the bowl of your stand mixer. Whisk on low speed, increase speed to high. Gradually add sugar, a teaspoon at a time, until sugar is dissolved. Beat until mixture has stiff peaks. Stir in vanilla extract and white pepper.
- Add meringue mixture to piping bag with large star tip. Pipe onto cookie sheets into 2 inch rounds (or stars).. Bake for 1 hour. Turn off oven and allow to cool in oven for 1 hour more.
- Enjoy! Store extras in airtight container at room temperature.
Blue
I am going to make the Blueberry Pie I wrote about for sure. I wanted to add another blue recipe though, that didn’t involve blueberries. Blue nachos sounded awesome. I think they would go great with the dogs/brats and baked beans we’ll make for lunch on the 4th.
Blue Nachos
Ingredients
- 4 large handfuls blue corn tortilla chips
- ½ cup crumbled blue cheese
- ¼ cup chopped red onion
- cilantro garnish
- pickled jalapenos garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Arrange tortilla chips on foil covered baking sheet. Sprinkle with blue cheese and onion. Bake for 5 minutes or until cheese is melted.
- Transfer to a plate and dd cilantro and pickled jalapenos to taste. Serve immediately.
Ok – so happy Red, White, Blue – It’s a Festive Foodie Friday! I hope you have a happy, healthy and safe 4th. Break out the sparklers and the Rosé! Make sure to count your blessings here in our beautiful country. God bless! À bientôt!
Hope it was a Happy 4th! I want to try the blueberry rye pie too! that sounds awesome!
Not my favorite time o the year here on the weessttssidee…Non, certainement pas! but a jumbo btl of rescue remedy on hand helped the furries and mua!
It was awesome – the pie – I had two big slices, Mark had the rest 😜