{"id":120,"date":"2007-09-12T21:15:44","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T01:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/12\/basil-mayo\/"},"modified":"2007-09-12T21:15:44","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T01:15:44","slug":"basil-mayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/12\/basil-mayo\/","title":{"rendered":"Basil Mayo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The women at work keep bringing in vegetables.  Everything from onions, basil, garlic, carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers and zucchini.  It&#8217;s been a veritable feast of veggies.<\/p>\n<p>One of the women brought in a loaf of bread, a jar of mayo, and these tomatoes that were just .. freaking amazing.  Over the last two weeks, she has brought this in about every 3 days or so, and I&#8217;ve been eating toast, mayo and tomato sandwiches every day.<\/p>\n<p>I brought a couple of tomatoes home from work on Monday, and tonight decided I had better eat the last one, as I&#8217;ll be away.  I do like mayo, but as I also brought home basil, I thought I would make something a bit different tonight.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m usually not one for flavored mayo, but flavoring it with basil.. well, you just can&#8217;t go wrong.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/basil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/basil-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"basil\" height=\"180\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Basil Mayo<\/h2>\n<p>1 cup mayo<br \/>\n10 to 15 basil leaves &#8212; chopped<br \/>\n1 teaspoons kosher salt<br \/>\n1 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice<br \/>\n1\/4 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper<\/p>\n<p>Whisk together the mayonnaise, basil, salt, pepper, lemon juice,<br \/>\nolive oil and garlic. Spread the mayonnaise mixture on the top of 2<br \/>\nslices of bread. Place the sliced tomato on top of one<br \/>\nbread slice. Place the remaining slice of bread, mayonnaise side<br \/>\ndown, on top of the tomato. Cut the sandwich in half and serve.<\/p>\n<p>Wash and chop the basil.  Mix with mayo well.  Add salt and lemon juice.<\/p>\n<p>Clean and slice your tomatoes.  Not too thick, not to thin slices.<\/p>\n<p>Spread the mayo mixture on toasted bread, add the tomato, sprinkle with pepper, and eat.  Repeat. ;)<\/p>\n<p><em>Another version of this recipe is:<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Basil Mayo with Garlic<\/h2>\n<p>1 cup mayo<br \/>\n10 to 15 basil leaves &#8212; chopped<br \/>\n1\/2 Small minced onion<br \/>\n1 clove garlic<br \/>\n1 tablespoon olive oil<br \/>\n1 teaspoon red wine vinegar, or even balsamic vinegar<\/p>\n<p>Wash and chop the basil.  Mix with mayo well.  Add onion, garlic, olive oil, and vinegar and whisk together well.<\/p>\n<h3>Notes:<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>The Basil Mayo keeps in the refrigerator for about a week.  But don&#8217;t store the Basil Mayo with Garlic any longer than 2-3 days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The women at work keep bringing in vegetables. Everything from onions, basil, garlic, carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers and zucchini. It&#8217;s been a veritable feast of veggies. One of the women brought in a loaf of bread, a jar of mayo, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/12\/basil-mayo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[53,232,333,24],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-basil","tag-mayo","tag-sauce","tag-sauces-dips-and-misc-recipes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}