Dessert in a jar! Here’s a clever way of bringing individual little cheesecakes to a picnic or BBQ: bake them in Mason or Weck jars, screw on the lids and voila! Portable! I took these along on a picnic and they worked out great. If strawberries aren’t your thing, top with any other fruit (blueberry or mango might be good options) or even chocolate or caramel sauce. A totally decadent idea!
Here is a riff on both pasta salad and caprese, the tomato-mozzarella-basil salad that I eat normally when the local tomatoes come into season. I used mini-everything for this recipe: cherry tomatoes, perlini mozzarella and orecchiette pasta. Orecchiette meand “earlobe” which I think is just funny and somewhat appropriate.
Normally, I stick to a very specific type of potato salad, which is the southern German (Swabian or Bavarian) styles. That for me is the definition of potato salad and yes, we ate it a lot growing up. That said, every once in a while, I will branch out and when I saw a similar recipe to the one that I created here, I thought I would go for it. Who can go wrong with bacon?!? Quite yummy, but definitely remember to serve this one at room temperature as cold bacon fat (which is part of the dressing) isn’t very appetizing.