Simple, easy and elegant recipes that are always crowd pleasers: What are yours?
Three perfect, easy recipes… no more than five ingredients apiece. Tomato-Basil Couscous salad Buy one bag of cherry tomatoes, the kind that are still on the vine in the mesh bag. Also one small regular tomato. 1/4 cup of freshly torn basil 1 cup of plain, unflavored couscous 1 tablespoon of brown grain mustard (you can use grey poupon too if you prefer) 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil 2 teaspoons of balsamic vinegar Prepare the couscous as usual (bring water to boil, throw in couscous). Allow to cool. Cut all the cherry tomatoes in half and rinse out the seeds so they are like little cups. In a food processor or blender, pour in the mustard, oil, and vinegar, and cut up the one medium tomato into fourths. Puree contents; add salt and vinegar to taste. Pour dressing over couscous, throw in torn basil and cherry tomatoes, and stir until the cherry tomatoes are filled like little cups in the midst of the couscous. You can adjust this up or down to make more or less very easily.
