Salad

I’m all alone in my household of four. No one else enjoys cucumbers.  Or cherry tomatoes. No one, but me. Sniff. Sometimes, I just have to celebrate my cucumber-and-cherry-tomato-loving-ways.  And sneak in things like this Cherry Tomato and Cucumber Salad. Even if I’m the only one who eats it, it’s still darn tasty. So there. [...]

If you had told me a year ago that I’d be posting an Edamame, Corn and Quinoa Salad on my blog, I would have said you were crazy. In fact, I probably would have asked, “What’s quinoa?” Now, if you would have told me that I would have had a hard time putting my fork [...]

I spend quite a lot of time on this blog.  I plan out the recipes I want to share, what ingredients I want to use, how I want to write about them, how I want the finished product to look in the photos, etc. I take the time to think about what might be good [...]

Recipe Title Alternatives: Baby Beet Salad, Fresh Beet Salad, Feta and Beet Salad with Shallot and Orange Vinaigrette, Feta and Beet Salad… I think you get the point.  “Beet Salad” just kinda sums it up. For four weeks straight, our CSA included a (deceptively) small brown bag full of baby beets.  Did I mention this [...]

For last week’s Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), we got some beautiful heirloom tomatoes and fresh sweet basil.  Now, I don’t know about you, but my mind goes two ways with these two fresh ingredients sitting on my counter: (1) Bruschetta or (2) Caprese Salad.  Since I also got some tasty organic grape tomatoes I could [...]

This Spinach Salad with Warm Bacon Dressing from Alton Brown is a recipe I’ve made many, many times.  As I’ve mentioned before, Alton has some wonderful recipes and this one is no exception. I really enjoy this salad because it combines vibrant flavors with different textures.  Well, that and because it’s super yummy.  There’s crumbled [...]

After coming back from our mini vacation to Arkansas and eating all that food, Dustin and I have been feeling a little “heavier” than we’d like.  So, we both agreed it was time to incorporate some more salads into our weekly dinners and maybe some more exercise.  I tried this Caesar Salad Dressing recipe from [...]

**Warning:** after reading this post and trying out this recipe, you will likely never go back to buying store-bought croutons again.  In fact, you will probably find it hard to believe you ever spent money on store-bought croutons in the first place. Inevitably, if I have guests over and I make a salad, I get [...]

In my family, meals usually revolve around a meat of some sort.  Even our salads have chicken, shrimp or steak.  However, I have recently realized I need to add some good vegetarian entrees to my repertoire.  To my dismay, the burning question arises each time I think this: Will Dustin eat it?  And, even if [...]