It’s been so hot this month that cooking has been a real sacrifice. I try to wait until it cools down enough and to find recipes that are quick and easy or something I can stick in the oven or stove top and walk away. Since losing all work when Covid broke out, I was inspired to create a Patreon account. It is a membership page where I post weekly recipes with a PDF and a video. It is a really inexpensive way to follow me and “take classes” online. Then I began live online zoom classes, which are fun, but hard to find the right time to teach, I have students in both hemispheres. an answer to that was to use the prerecorded idea and create Summer School online. I taped multiple recipes weekly. It has been a blast! While doing that, I also put the videos onto a Recipes On Demand library where you can pick and choose which classes you want to see. Looks like travel is coming back, slowly but surely. I don’t know about you, but cooking has saved me! I adore doing the research and then shopping and cooking. My husband cleans up for me so that is a blessing!
This week for my Patreon recipe, I was inspired by past trips to Puglia.
They also had record breaking heat, Over 100!!! I remembered a fabulous salad I have had several places. The first time I heard of it, was teaching in Florence. A client came for a weeklong session and asked if we could make a recipe her mom made but she never got the recipe for. Her mom was from Puglia, the heel of Italy. I did my research and found the recipe! Acquasal or Acqua Sale. Water and Salt! Years later I also had another version in Sicily called Insalata di Acqua, Water Salad.
The first version I made, with my student, we had it like her mom served her, in a small glass bowl with ice. Yesterday I did a nice glass version instead.
But I made a large salad for dinner. For the glass version, I simple cut the vegetables smaller.
Is it a salad or a soup? I like to use a spoon as the liquid is exquisite! Sort of a gazpacho? Watch the video and get the PDF on my Patreon page!
If you join the page, you get access now to all the past videos as well! Since I travel alot, I do recipes from many different regions of Italy, but always fun and easy!
Love to have feedback on the recipe!
That salad looks so refreshing! I will try it. Thanks, Judy!
Marilyn
let me know when you make it! I adore the “broth” if forms!