My one job: Simple is, as Simple does the extraordinarily simple vinaigrette.

The chef: slice and plate the plum, tomato, buffalo mozzarella, and basil.

The two of us, the perfect team: in hog heaven, all this week, for lunch.

No telling when the brewing storm will hit.

With shallots and balsamic vinegar,

this recipe, my wife tells me,

is positively fool-proof.

Having fixed it to perfection,

I suppose I’ve been told

What that makes me.

After the busy morning, grocery shopping, and a late lunch

The native call for a respite of sleep hit like a sucker punch.

Then returning to our separate journal & blog, scraps & pen,

We finish up the afternoon as the shadows and clouds move in.

To the pork-chop special that we picked up at the supermercato,

Simplicity adds caramelized shallots and a balsamic glaze.  Perfetto?

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Never been much in the way of a vegetarian.

But I could live on a diet of Castelluccian lentils,

With a side order of melone (wrapped in prosciutto).

Truth be told, as I said, not a real vegetarian after all.

Try the steak and arugula (with potatoes and onions, a little olive oil, roasted in aluminum foil), you may like it.  We sure did.  For simplest recipe, click here.

Backwards translation of an old Italian favorite–shredded beef with arugula–straight from the kitchen down the hall.

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