I love simple ingredients and simple preparation, things you can just throw together with barely any preparation. One of my favorite snacks is a quintessential Italian salad known as caprese, which is sliced tomato, fresh mozzarella, fresh basil, and some salt and pepper. Cut them up, layer them, done. Nothing tastes fresher than basil straight out of the garden, and my mom grows basil in our back yard so it's always a special treat when I go home. Lately I've been trying to eat better, but it's difficult when I have less than ten minutes between each class, and then at the end of the day I have ten minutes to get to the gym so the only option is fast food, making the two hours of hell I'm about to endure completely pointless. So tonight I used three of my favorite ingredients to make a pasta salad based on one by Ina Garten, aka the Barefoot Contessa. It has spiral pasta, diced tomatoes, cubed fresh mozzarella, chopped basil, black olives, and sun-dried tomatoes, then a dressing of olive oil, red wine vinegar, garlic, salt, and pepper (I added some Italian seasoning too - you can never go wrong with that stuff). Not only is it delicious, but hopefully it will stop me from resorting to McDonald's or Cheetos to get me through the day.
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