Tag Archives: Salad
Steak salad with grilled cauliflower. 6/30/20
Tonight we used up part of the leftover flank steak from Sunday. I fixed a hearty greens salad and laid the strips of meat over it. I sliced up the one remaining roasted beet I had and dressed the plate … Continue reading
Shrimp Thai salad. 6/3/20
With temperatures in the upper 90’s I have thrown out my menu for the week and am looking to make dishes that involve minimal cooking. This Thai salad is a riff on the Spicy Pork Thai salad I made a … Continue reading
New! Spicy Thai Pork Tenderloin Salad. 5/27/20
This delicious salad comes from the NYTimes Cooking site. The site is not free but you can buy it separately from the newspaper. There are myriad recipes plus newsletters to subscribe to. You can upload recipes from other sites into … Continue reading
Mexican inspired salad. 5/1/20 #salad#chicken
I don’t know about you but I am not a fan of making salad. It always seems like so much work for a very slim reward. However, since we are in the throes of a week where the scale is … Continue reading
🐟 A pretty, perfect, lunch (or dinner) 2/29/20
This is my second go at a Nicoise Salad. It is so colorful and a delight to eat. I subbed in black beans for a green vegetables and used spinach instead of traditional salad greens. John and I ate our … Continue reading
🐟. Salade Niçoise. 2/21/20
Salade Nicoise is a main course salad. Mostly it is just an assembly of component parts. I used the same pot of boiling water to cook the egg, blanch the snow peas, and boil the potatoes. I have a salad … Continue reading
🍗 Rotisserie chicken and yummy sides. 9/24/19
Weatherunderground said that it hit 102F in my town yesterday. That is too hot to be turning on the oven or stove! So right before it was time for dinner John went to the grocery store and picked up a … Continue reading
Vichyssoise – a summer potato soup. 8/22/19
There are two components to tonight’s dinner, a Mediterranean salad and a French soup. There is some question as to whether vichyssoise is a French or American creation. Potato and leek soup served hot has been around in France since … Continue reading
Burger time! 8/15/19
It is in the 100s again today. Late August and September are the hottest months here in Northern California and it is the time of summer that no one looks forward to. We are not going to be heating up … Continue reading
Great tabbouleh and more! 8/14/19
I get a lot of accolades from the family when I make this parsley-forward tabbouleh based on a recipe for a Lebanese Tabbouleh from NYTimes Cooking. For tonight’s version, here is the recipe: Lemony Parsley Tabbouleh 1/2 cup bulgur wheat … Continue reading
