105degrees, L2/W1/D6: tomato salad & chili
In order to graduate Level II before Christmas, we have to include two Saturdays in our schedule, and yesterday was one of them. Funny thing is, I didn’t mind going to “school” on a Saturday the way I would have back in college. I was perfectly happy to spend the afternoon and evening at 105degrees.
Haylee brewed us a couple pots of elemental coffee (I mean, it HAD been a 6-day week), and my classmate Tim made us some fresh carrot-lemon-ginger juice to sip on during lecture.
We compiled the multicolored heirloom tomatoes we’d marinated on Thursday.
So purty!
(And this isn’t even the real dish—just a plate of quickly- and randomly-arranged tomato slices.)
THIS is the “real” dish—marinated heirloom tomato salad with red wine-onion reduction and compressed cucumbers.
Fancy, huh?
I garnished it with black lava salt, oooh.
I saved this for Matt to eat for dinner. He enjoyed the sweet and salty flavors of the tomatoes, and he loved the red wine onions.
For dinner, we made a meal that I have made, and posted, before!
This is a version of Ani Phyo’s raw chili with taco nut meat.
We didn’t make the parade of accompaniments that I prepared when I made it, but I found that it didn’t even need anything besides the nut meat (and a sprinkle of leftover cheese crumbles from Thursday‘s Mexi-salad) to be a hearty, filling meal. A few minutes of warming in the dehydrator turned it into a truly perfect winter supper.
that Salad looks YUMMY!!! I LOVE LOVE salads!!! could eat one morning, noon and night. I hear alot of vegetarian places serve salad for lunch
You are lucky to like salad that much! Pass some of that on to me
Wow, that tomato salad looks almost too beautiful too eat!
Keyword *almost*
To eat, even
Hehe, happens to the best of us!
Oh, Matt’s visiting? Hurrah! Have fun you two kiddlywinks!
I’ve never had heirloom tomatos but they certainly are preeeetty! Somehow I’m not surprised that you don’t mind having your nut meat straight up…
I do like to let nuts’ full flavor shine through
Beautiful! Do you do the reductions in a dehydrator or simply on a stove?
Have a fun weekend – rest well your sole day off!
love
Ela
Dehydrator – 105degrees don’t have a single stove or oven.
Everything looks gorgeous as always. Now I have a craving for raw chili, mmm.
The chili really hit the spot for me that night.
The chili looks exactly like something I’d like to have for dinner tomorrow
And the marinated tomatoes remind me of summer–unfortunately I probably won’t be eating a tomato salad that good for another 5 months!
The tomato salad DOES seem summery. I bet it’d be quite refreshing during the hot weather months.
That chili looks exactly like SAD (hehe) meat chili. Wow. And those tomatoes, especially with the black lava salt, look incredible. I bet Matt enjoyed them! YUM!
Haha! It’s anything but ‘SAD’
Matt liked the tomatoes a lot!
all of your photos from your past few posts are amazing looking! yum. wish i could eat all that yummy stuff!
Thanks Rachel! I wish I had the opportunity to share it with people
I don’t usually “ooh and aah” over vegetables dishes (even though I love my veggies), but I really want those tomatoes.
Haha, I hear ya. Dessert photos are what usually do me in, but sometimes, colorful veggies can really “take the cake”