Thursday

Bow ties with tomatoes, feta and grapes (recipe in the comments)
Steamed fresh green beans and wax beans

Hot tea
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We're, once again, adding to our repertoire of summer entree salad. I am always a fan of mixing grapes or other sweet fruit into more savory dishes and so this was an automatic recipe for us to try. While you do cook the pasta, everything else is chopped fresh or whisked together and just combined for an easy and relatively heat free cooking process. Since it's actually gotten relatively warm here this past week, that's very nice. The outcome was good, but not perfect. We both thought it was better without the feta cheese, which was too pungent. I might try a mild goat or even some shredded Monterrey Jack. Otherwise, very yummy and we'll be working on perfecting it :) Our initial ideas for changes are in the posted recipe.

Prep Notes
Difficulty: Easy
Chopping: Tomatoes, grapes, basil
Time: 30 minutes
Make ahead: I think this would save fine.

Reaction
J: "Yummy, but a bit too many flavors."
M: "Summery."