I love basil! It's good with sooo many things! I can't tell you how many caprese salads I had on my honeymoon! I couldn't help it! They were different variations of a caprese so I didn't feel too bad about eating the same thing over and over! One of them had figs! It was delicious!
I also had a strawberry basil martini at a restaurant that we went to! It was soooo good!
I just recently planted my new basil plant that I bought and I decided I needed to go ahead and prune it so that it will (hopefully) get even bigger and bushier! I've been trying to eat less processed foods which really hasn't been too difficult. I've been eating a lot of fruits and vegetables lately and I just happened to buy the largest container of strawberries ever! I thought why don't I try a kind of strawberry caprese salad? How delicious would that be!?
Totally delicious! I halved about 10 strawberries and tore about 6 leaves of basil into pieces. Then I drizzled a balsamic reduction and honey mixture over top and sprinkled with bleu cheese. Now, even though I didn't have any more fresh mozzarella (because I ate it all!) I totally would have used that instead of the bleu cheese even though the bleu cheese was still super yummy. It would have been good with feta cheese as well! Not to mention some candied pecans or something!
Needless to say Basil+Strawberries=Total Deliciousness!
By the way! Don't you just love the app from the girls over at A Beautiful Mess?
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