Vinegar Buzz

On Satuday we made a quick trip to the Italian Store in Arlington, and purchased goodies including a Star brand jarred sauce with grape tomatoes and their wonderful homemade pizza dough. We used the recipe from Williams-Sonoma Florence and added the paper thin onion and the rocket. Wonderful!

Even better was the salad. Yes, another combination of field greens, lusty extra virgin olive oil, a good vinegar, sea salt, fresh ground pepper and one crushed garlic clove. I think I need to start keeping a list of the best oil-and-vinegar combinations.

This time we were evaluating Goccia Umbra's Aceto Balsamico de Modena, which came packaged together with an olive oil. I chose to combine it with Gourmet Sardinia Fruttato Extra Virgin Olive Oil. The combination was entrancing....award-winning....enough so that I may have to create a chart of the best oil-vinegar-and-greens combination for Olio2go. Perhaps I'll even create the all-salad-diet because I could live on these combinations.

The local middle school has been performing High School Musical this weekend and we saw it last night. It takes guts to do a big show like that while the original is still popular. The kids and their directors are to be commended!

Here's something crazy: I'm supposed to "coach" field hockey this afternoon. I'm the designated parent for our group, and the coach is in Arizona, so the responsibility falls to me. I sure hope those girls all know what they are doing. Most of the parents know that I can usually be found knitting on the sidelines.