Broccoli Salad
In our house we always are trying new recipes. Sometimes they fail miserably, sometimes they simply exist, and sometimes they are huge winners. Last night I tried three new recipes, and all three were hits. It was kind of like a hat trick for me. Granted, two of the recipes were courtesy of cookbooks and online searches, but the third was all mine. So, it was quite pleasing to have such good results.
As the other two dishes were ribs and french fries, I wanted to have a healthy veggie dish to round out the meal. Broccoli is always popular in…
Grilled Pineapple Salad
Warm weather arrives in New England, and we become excited to cook outdoors. Of course, there is the typical fare of hamburgers and hot dogs to please the palate, but a little variety makes grilling so much more enjoyable.
This past Saturday we decided to try our hands at more interesting grilled food. Instead of hamburgers, we made buffalo chicken burgers with blue cheese sauce. In place of coleslaw or pasta salad, we opted to give a grilled salad a try. Like most salads, it is best made early and allowed to sit in the refrigerator to chill and allow flavors…
Beet & Orange Salad
Summer, the season of salads. We tend to make many salads at our house, both as main and side dishes in this season. Some have a base of greens; others are a combination of fruits, vegetables, or both. Although we have our go-to salads, such as Caesar, we tend to be creative with our salads. (I guess that’s not too surprising when both adults are foodies, and the kids seem to be following suit.)
Last week, I had created a main dish of lamb and wanted a cool side dish to accompany it. Of course, the obvious answer was salad. However,…
Pear Vinaigrette
I am a foodie. I love trying new flavors, textures, cooking methods, etc. I also am a little bit finicky about how my food is prepared. I don’t like fried food; I prefer not to have a lot of fatty ingredients, such as cream, oil, or butter, in my foods on a regular basis. Sure, I like to indulge occasionally, but for the most part I prefer healthier foods.
Because of this obsession with healthy foods, I prefer not to put salad dressing on my salad. Yep, I am that annoying restaurant customer who orders her salad, “With dressing on the…
Cranberry Balsamic Dressing
I love to use a sprinkling of vinegar as dressing quite often. We usually have an assortment of vinegars: champagne, cider, orange muscat, red wine, balsamic. Using only vinegar on a salad produces a light topping with a bit of a bite.
Last week I decided to make salad a main course dish for my husband and me. With fall’s arrival, I began to think of seasonal foods that would be available. One of the fall ingredients that I love to use is cranberries. However, I hadn’t seen any fresh cranberries in our grocery store yet, so I settled with cranberry…
Asian Slaw
Although I tend to be a planner, sometimes spontaneity can be quite nice. Late Friday afternoon, we went to the grocery store with no plan for our dinner. The only plan we had was to peruse our options at the butcher and base our meal around our meat choice.
After talking with the butcher, we decided to do a surf and turf combination of teriyaki steak tips and scallops. For a side dish, we wanted something that would compliment these items but that wouldn’t take long to prepare. Being summertime and (finally) warm, a salad sort of dish seemed perfect.
I knew…
Review: Pangaea, North Bennington, Vermont
After a rainy, work-filled June, my husband and I decided to start July on a relaxing note. Although technically we started July with a 12-hour workday, we did get to the relaxation part on the second day. Not sure of weather and plans for the holiday weekend, we made reservations for lodging and dinner for our trip at 1:00 (the day of our trip!) and were traveling west by 2:00. With reservations at the Eddington House Inn that included a 5-course wine tasting dinner at Pangaea,…
Lemon Vinaigrette
As both my husband and I are foodies, our children are exposed to a variety of food experiences. New recipes and ingredients are regular parts of our meals. Interesting restaurants (meaning places that don’t offer chicken tenders on its menu) are visited. Television shows that have cooking, restaurant reviews, or food travel are watched often.
So, last Saturday morning after an hour of mindless children’s cartoons, we switched to a cooking show, a real cooking show in which the chef made everything from scratch. Our 11 year old daughter was watching with us, and upon seeing homemade salad dressing announced, “I…
Taste of Hawaii Chicken Salad
Winter continues in New Hampshire. As I write this post, I am watching both snowflakes and temperature drop. With multiple snowstorms and ice storms already occurring, winter feels long this year.
I know, I live in New Hampshire; we are supposed to have cold temperatures and snow-covered yards. If I were to live somewhere tropical, I would miss watching snowflakes glide to the ground and seeing light shimmering on an icicle. However, sometimes it is nice to visualize a warmer climate for a little while.
Last week I decided to bring a tropical feel to our house via dinner. Having bought a…
Broccoli Salad
Most days I make some sort of salad or veggie wrap for my lunch. Typically I stirfry broccoli, peppers, and whatever other vegetables are available. However, last week as I looked in the veggie bin in our refrigerator, a stirfry didn’t seem appealing.
Of course, I didn’t realize that I wouldn’t be in a stirfry mood when I went grocery shopping, so I already had a few bunches of broccoli waiting to be used. Trying to keep my lunch healthy, I wondered how I could use this broccoli in my lunch in an alternate way. I decided to give broccoli salad…
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