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Ingredients 4 medium potatoes
Directions o Boil potatoes.
Notes This potato and tomato salad (or side dish) can be seasoned with fresh basil or (dried) oregano. Of course, some home cooks use both fresh basil and oregnao. Personally, I prefer the dish seasoned just with oregano, but as they say -- to each his own.... In any case, both versions of this famous Molisana dish were done in the 1930s. Obviously, back then this dish was only done when both tomatoes and potatoes were in season as nothing was imported from other areas of the world. In fact, very little was brought in to Molise from other regions of Italy (the one exception seems to be Northern Italy's famous miniature "torrone" bars which most Southerners couldn't get enough of). It wasn't until the early 1950s that food products from Northern Italy (e.g. mortatella) began to be sold in the South. At the turn of the last century most foods consumed were locally produced -- generally within a 30 mile radius.... Photo: Mary Melfi. P.S. The photo does not include fresh basil (an oversight). |