{"id":1712,"date":"2010-03-22T08:14:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marialiberati.com\/2010\/03\/22\/a-warm-feta-salad\/"},"modified":"2010-03-22T08:14:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:14:25","slug":"a-warm-feta-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/2010\/03\/22\/a-warm-feta-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"A Warm Feta Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/warmfetasalad.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"warm feta salad\" border=\"0\" alt=\"warm feta salad\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/warmfetasalad_thumb.jpg?resize=233%2C233&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"233\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>copyright 2010, Maria Liberati<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite restaurants in the South of Italy-near my country house- makes this incredibly memorable, but yet so simple &#8211; salad. Everything&#160; there is&#160; made&#160;&#160; with a touch of Greek influence using&#160; local ingredients..and the resulting dishes served there&#160; are ..well\u2026magnifico!   <\/p>\n<p>The&#160; dish..is a warm feta salad..that includes lots of local ingredients including San Marzano tomatoes.. <\/p>\n<p>And when I am far away from the country house.. I still enjoy making this ..sometimes for an after dinner salad (Italians eat their salads after their main course) or for a light dinner or lunch, an antipasto or even a topping for a pasta dish (rigatoni pasta is perfect).. Anytime you eat it..is perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately the restaurant was closed for \u2018ferie\u2019 or vacation during my last trip..but with a visit to a local produce or farm market you can make it yourself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Warm Feta Salad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(from award winning book <a href=\"http:\/\/marialiberati.theopenskyproject.com\/books-music-video.html\">The Basic Art of Italian Cooking: Holidays &amp; Special Occasions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(serves 4)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*1\/4 lb of feta<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*4 fresh, ripe tomatoes-San Marzano or Roma&#160; tomatoes are&#160; best or locally grown red, ripe tomatoes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*1 red onion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*1 tsp of fresh or dried oregano<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*4 tablespoons of extra virgin, cold pressed olive oil<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*Pinch of salt and pepper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Oil a casserole dish. Layer the ingredients. First a layer of thinly sliced red onion, top onions with crumbled feta cheese, then top with thinly sliced tomatoes. Drizzle olive oil and sprinkle oregano pepper and salt on each layer before topping. Top the final layer with olive oil, pepper, salt and oregano also.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bake in oven preheated to 350 degrees for 10 minutes or just until feta begins to melt,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Appearnces:     <br \/>April 14th-Free Library of Philadelphia-6:30 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>May 8th-Borders Books-Warrington, Pa-2PM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>May 25th, 11 AM-BookExpo America , NY,NY-Pre-release Book signing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Marialiberati\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/Marialiberati<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit me at <a href=\"http:\/\/marialiberati.theopenskyproject.com\/books-music-video.html\">OpenSky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>copyright 2010, Maria Liberati One of my favorite restaurants in the South of Italy-near my country house- makes this incredibly memorable, but yet so simple &#8211; salad. Everything&#160; there is&#160;&hellip;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}