Salads

Cucumber Egg Salad

August 19, 2010

Sigh. Sometimes the light in our kitchen is just right, and taking photos is nearly effortless. The light in these came out perfectly, why can’t it be like this all the time? We’ve been slowly widdling down the veggie and fruit onslaught, and after a particularly rigorous workout Saturday morning decided we needed protein like [...]

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Sweet and Tangy Strawberry Salad

August 6, 2010

So if you checked in yesterday you probably saw that we’ve been avoiding the kitchen quite a bit this week. With the insane summer heat and just off a week-long trip in Montana, we’ve been kind of taking it easy with our kitchen adventures and reverting back to some easy favorites. This Sweet and Tangy [...]

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Simple meals are tasty too! Easy Taco Salad

June 18, 2010

As our cooking skills progress we’re always looking to attempt the new, more complex and challenging recipes. But often times going back to simple dishes are not only a nice relief from the more finicky ones, but they are very very tasty. For example, The Taco Salad. Yeah its just tortilla chips, lettuce, black beans, [...]

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Fresh Garden Salad with Fried Tofu

June 4, 2010

Yup, our first salad from our garden-harvested lettuce. We channeled our best Alice Waters and made a Spicy Asian Salad with Fried Tofu. It ended up being more of a kitchen-sink salad though as we also tossed in some artichokes, dried cherries and Kalamata Olives. In any sense, pure joy!

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Healthy Potato Salad with Yogurt, Chard and Dill

June 2, 2010

If you’re like me, one of your favorite staple summer barbecue foods is potato salad. At more than one party I’ve attended, it’s been the only veggie option available. The pitfall is that it can be the most unhealthy offering, high in both calories and fat. I’ve also never much enjoyed the huge amounts of [...]

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Tilapia-Noodle Slaw and Some Family History

April 8, 2010

Definitely one of my more unique concoctions, I derived it from a vaguely-remembered family picnic in the ’80s. I’m from a HUGE German-Catholic family on my mother’s side. Both my Grandma (now deceased) and Grandpa have lived in the same 10-mile radius their whole lives, and their families have resided in the county since the [...]

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Recipe Recommendation: Spring Strawberry Spinach Salad

June 1, 2008

We’ve used this recipe twice now. Last weekend hanging out with Anja and Steve, we made this for an accompaniment to the burgers which was extremely complimentary. And since we had leftover materials we made it again on Tuesday and added some chicken we bbq’d on the grill. It’s light, filled with citrus flavor, and [...]

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