Recipe: Cilantro Lime Dressing
Harvesting the last of this year’s cilantro from the garden, we made a double batch of this wonderful dressing, which is healthy and light with a yogurt base, while jazzy with garlic.
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Recent Food Around Here
You’ll find the following recipes on the blog for these recent menus around here. Enjoy the photos as well.
Book Review: Fifty Shades of Kale
I’m not terribly keen on kale, but this beautiful cookbook is doing its best to change that.
Nigel Slater’s Tender Vegetable Tips
This book is a tome, with over 400 recipes and extensive gardening tips for growing vegetables, it has 624 pages of dense, but insightful, easy-to-read information.
Recipe: Fresh Basil Dressing
This is delicious and tastes like summer. It would be great to make when the basil is lushly bursting out in the garden, but sometimes it is good to have a taste of sunshine in the winter as well. 1 (15 oz) package of organic soft silken tofu, drained 3 or 4 cloves of garlic, … Read more
Recent Food Around Here
We’ve gotten further and further away from anything packaged. Above depicts a typical grocery haul for us. In the photos here you can see we’re still eating some favorites that have already been posted on this blog (click on the links below) but we are trying new things as well. Two of the photos below … Read more
Recent Food Around Here
A lot of what you see here already has these recipe links on the blog: Red Lentil and Vegetable Soup Salmon Cakes Crustless Seafood Pie with Celeriac Mash Baked Eggs Over Power Greens A Better Banana Bread Baked Winter Squash Soup Watercress, Pear and Walnut Salad Roasted Asparagus Roasted Carrots Roasted Strawberries Vegetable Soup with … Read more
Recipe: Great Homemade Dressing for a Terrific Apple Salad
This is destined to become a favorite! For the Dressing: 1/4 teaspoon fine grain sea salt 12 fresh rosemary leaves (the spiky needles), minced 1 medium garlic clove, peeled 1 teaspoon sugar 1/2 cup organic sour cream 2 1/2 teaspoons white wine vinegar freshly ground black pepper to taste For the Salad: 3 large … Read more
Recipe: Chickpea, Avocado & Arugula Salad
Except for hummus, I’m not much of a chickpea eater so I’m venturing on some new ground here… This serves two as a main meal or four as a side dish. Chickpea and Avocado Salad 1 can chickpeas, drained and rinsed 3 celery stalks, diced 1 small head of broccoli tops, blanched 3 handfuls … Read more
Photos of Our Recent Salads
It’s been a while since I’ve shared food photos from around here and I’ve divided it between two posts. The obvious break-out category in our life is salad;
Recipe: Blueberry Corn Saladita
I am glad I follow Molly Katzen on Twitter because recipe gems like this one surface. This couldn’t be easier and couldn’t taste better!
Recipe for a Fabulous Arugula Salad
For a long time I was at a loss for a truly enjoyable way to eat arugula, but after a lot of trial and error I’ve got it figured out. The right dressing and the right ingredients make all the difference. All these ingredients are optional, I usually use most but not all in varying … Read more
Recipe: Watercress, Pear and Walnut Salad
In the winter a watercress salad is a real treat. I like it with ripe pear and toasted walnuts…
Recipe: Beet and Goat Cheese Salad
This is what I had for lunch today. It was wildly wonderful… stunningly delicious. I got the recipe out of a cookbook I’m enjoying from the library that has photos of every step in a recipe. It is perfect for visual learners like me when a picture is worth a thousand words. It is … Read more
Recipe: Jicama Slaw
This is a delicious summer side dish. In the years past, I used to make it with a store bought cole slaw dressing, before I got committed to no high fructose corn syrup and no unpronounceable ingredients. So here is my improved version with a dressing from Julia Child… Jicama Slaw Recipe 1/2 jicama, … Read more
Recipe: Warm Tomato, Olive & Arugula Salad
Both arugula and green beans are in season in the garden right now, so this delicious salad is a good way to pair them. This could be a side salad or used as a main dish. You could also consider adding roasted pine nuts or tuna to make this a heartier salad, but it … Read more
Recipe: Crab Salad
This is delicious, perfect for a romantic lunch with your sweetheart on a sultry hot day. It’s the first recipe I’ve actually made out of my new cookbook (see here). Best Crab Salad recipe 1/3 cup mayonnaise 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard 1 teaspoon lemon zest 2 teaspoons lemon juice 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon … Read more