I think this set is for the heat of summer: the hottest, baking, most scorching Amalfi day you could imagine. A blue this strong would stand up to anything the Italian summer could dish out.
I think this dinner set hardly calls for a recipe to do it justice - it would be too hot to cook any sort of a recipe on a day this hot. You really could only manage to assemble some beautiful items of food on a day this hot, present them in as refreshing a way as possible.
Were I to use this dinner set I would buy the freshest local mozzarella, from high up in the 'Mountains of Milk,' first thing in the morning, before the heat would set in. I would trawl through the vegetable stalls and find an exquisite, glossy, fulsome San Marzano tomato, ripe and ready to pop. I would slice it carefully and fan it out, slice by slice, slowly, onto the plates.
With a bunch of fresh basil in my hand, I would pick only the biggest, best, and unbruised leaves - no more than three or so - and tuck them artfully under the tomato. Two or three pungent black olives would accentuate the dish.
I would carefully drizzle some of the finest extra virgin olive oil across my salad, patiently, measured, with relish. Maybe, just maybe, there might be a final flourish of salt and pepper.
The result would be blue, and white, and red, and green, and black, and so cool, calm, and refreshing. The scents in the heat would be tantalizing. I am so greedy I probably would have this for breakfast, before anyone else was up.
Now, on an altogether different note, I might just prepare a fresh display of pungent Sicilian blood oranges across these plates. Just picture the deepest scented pink against this blue! Alternatively, using the enormous lemons from the garden, next to the pool, I might just make a fresh punchy lemon sorbet for the little floral bowls.
Whatever your plans for this dining set, make it fresh, scented, and full of flavour, to celebrate the height of summer!
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