oh salad of arugula, pancetta, roasted grapes, fried capers and parmigiano chips… oh how i love thee. with a smattering of great olive oil, finely chopped garlic and guerande salt with a few twists of freshly ground black pepper… you were a dream dinner for me. nothing flash. just an absolutely delectable melange of flavors led by a cast of undeniable characters.
where to begin? the pancetta was sliced into inch strips and put in a pan to brown and render some of the fat. then i added the capers until they were slightly browned as well. the seedless red grapes were removed from their stems, placed on a baking sheet and lightly sprayed with olive oil, barely salted and peppered then popped into an oven at 425 for about 15 minutes. while the grapes were doing their thing, i grated some parmigiano and heated my grill plate and placed little piles of cheese to melt, brown, flip, brown – remove.
oh btw – note the green onions. i almost forgot…
next time i will throw the garlic in with the capers for just 30 seconds or so to take the edge off. burping garlic at midnight is not fun.
no matter how much you like it…
13 responses so far ↓
1 ponyboat // Jan 29, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Wow if I could get more salads like this, I would eat more salads. Nicely done!
2 Lauren // Jan 29, 2008 at 7:55 pm
right now i’m craving the walnut oil salad so bad i can’t stand it, so this one is hard pressed to compete. nevertheless, it looks incredible- and despite the fact that i made carbonara for dinner, i feel fairly confident that i could still eat a huge bowl of the above salad.
3 Mary Coleman // Jan 29, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Roasted grapes. What will you think of next!
4 Rosa // Jan 30, 2008 at 2:31 am
Wow, that’s a gorgeous salad! Very tempting and tasty!
Cheers,
Rosa
5 Donald // Jan 30, 2008 at 5:38 am
I just stabbed my monitor with a fork!!!!!!
Roasted grapes? Hmmmm.
6 cookiecrumb // Jan 30, 2008 at 11:59 am
That’s the good thing about having great food items in the house.
Oh, and a vivid imagination. That helps.
7 Butta Buns // Jan 30, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Roasted grapes? That’s a neat idea, will have to give it a try. I’m drooling over the parmesan crisps, they’d be the first things to go if I had a bowl in front of me.
8 FireDog // Jan 30, 2008 at 6:52 pm
I dropped off the earth for a little while and have missed your cooking show.
This… is a salad I could stick my fork into!
Really beautiful.
9 lucy // Jan 31, 2008 at 10:16 am
I need more salads in my life. More salads like this. And more parmigiano chips too. yummmmm
10 Jennifer Hess // Jan 31, 2008 at 1:57 pm
This is exactly what I want to eat right now.
11 claudia // Jan 31, 2008 at 2:04 pm
jennifer – coming from you, that is huge
lucy – the chips are to die for. so simple and really, really fabbo. perfect for salads or like anything…
firedog – hey man, glad you’re back!
butta – the roasted grapes were a good find for me. i am loving them bigtime.
the chips – well, what can you say except: MORE.
cookie – my pantry scares me. it is out of control. but stocked? oh yeah…
donald – that made me wince and smile all at once!
rosa – love your blog. thanks for stopping by. tempted to make gravlox now.
mary – stay tuned… lol
lauren – STOP MAKING THAT CARBONARA. REPEAT. STOP MAKING THAT CARBONARA.
pony – well, i guess it’s a salad – it’s more like an entree in a bowl.
12 fluffernutter // Feb 14, 2008 at 8:46 am
LesleyEats said the roasted grapes were phenomenal. I’m trying this on Big Fella.
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