I love Caprese salads. Especially in summer when you can get perfectly ripe tomatoes and mounds of basil. I’m also mad for fresh mozzarella.

Well, when a friend wrote about a recipe for a Caprese style salad using Burrata I knew I had to try it. Burrata is a buttery mozzarella filled with cream. I had never even heard of it until I read about it in Lisa’s post here.

Having just made this, I have to say that I think I prefer my mozzarella without cream inside. But my husband loved the Burrata. So I strongly suggest giving it a try. Burrata has a lot of fans out there.

Burrata Mozzarella Salad with Tomatoes and Fresh Thyme

Ingredients:

3 ripe tomatoes
2 balls of Burrata mozzarella
Several sprigs fresh thyme
Extra virgin olive oil
Coarse sea salt and freshly ground pepper

Directions:

1. Slice the tomatoes and Burrata mozzarella into generous rounds and alternate on a plate.

2. Drizzle olive oil over tomato and cheese. Sprinkle with fresh thyme leaves, salt and pepper. Mound basil in center.

Serves six.

Recipe slightly adapted from A Fork On The Road

The music today is in honor of Father’s Day.

I am incredibly blessed to still have my Dad alive and well. My children are also blessed to have a father who is every bit the wonderful dad that I dreamed he would be. We’re so lucky.

One of the most beautiful songs about a father has to be My Father.

“My father always promised me
That we would live in France
We’d go boating on the Seine
And I would learn to dance

We lived in Ohio then
He worked in the mines
On his dreams like boats
We knew we would sail in time

My sisters on the road, and ran away
To Denver and Cheyenne
Marrying their own grownup dreams
The lilacs and the man

I stand behind the young girls dreams
Only danced alone
Hoping, hoping that my fathers dreams
would take me home.

I live in Paris now
My children dance and dream
Hearing the ways of a miner’s life
In words they’ve never seen

I sail my memories of home
Like boats across the Seine
And watch my fathers eyes
Watching the setting sun
Set in my fathers eyes again”
This Mortal Coil-My Father

I hate to say it, since so much of This Mortal Coil’s music is incredibly lovely, but I wish Alison Limerick’s vocals were worthy of the lyrics. Maybe Adrienne Barbeau did it better. (Remember her??). I don’t know, I never heard her version.

But, I do know Judy Collins’ version. Gorgeous. She wrote the song and it really is hard to imagine improving upon it. Makes me want to hug my father right now.
Judy Collins-My Father

Cheers and Happy Fathers Day!