i make 2 different cucumber salads, why not 2 different summer squash salads? Blame it on boredom or desperation, your choice. The other Summer Squash Salad is made with fresh lemon and fresh herbs and no salting. This one is made like my mother’s Old-Fashioned Cucumber Salad…. which is also the reason I made it. I was hungry for cucumber salad and had no plans on going to the market … Continue reading →
I grew up in a small town, population 288. In a small town everyone knows everything about everybody. They all knew I liked candy bars, fresh green beans, and dogs; and I hated chocolate covered cherries. I had the paper route so they probably knew more about me than the other 5 kids that lived in town. Every year someone would give me a box of chocolate covered cherries for … Continue reading →
This is my favorite cabbage salad. It’s light, crisp, crunchy and keeps well so I can make a big batch and enjoy it for a few days (if I hide some of it in the back of the fridge). I posted this a few years ago – but, it’s summer, the temperatures are rising and we can all use more salads. For those of you not familiar with U.S. measurements: … Continue reading →
Not all potato salads need a creamy dressing. Sometimes, a simple vinaigrette is best. There is a French potato salad that we love using fresh tarragon and a tarragon wine vinegar. It’s light and fresh and particularly good with the early tarragon in May. Balsamic vinegar gives a slightly more assertive flavor to the potatoes. My mother would be appalled. She didn’t even approve of the ‘cooked’ potato salad dressings … Continue reading →
This is a very simple salad using small squashes. You do know you should pick them when they are small, right? I was running out of ideas, it was hot, I had an abundance of herbs and a forgotten lemon in the firdge. Thus a recipe is born. We liked it as a salad. Mon mari liked it even better the next day when he added it to his sandwich … Continue reading →
As children we are influenced by what our parents like and dislike. I remember my mother carefully peeling a perfectly ripe tomato that a neighbor had given her. She sliced it, put a slice on her plate and added salt, pepper, sugar, and bottled French Dressing. She looked at me, watching her, and explained that as a child she had not liked tomatoes but she had ‘learned’ to like them. … Continue reading →
I seem to be breaking all of my self-imposed, arbitrary rules lately. In this case I’m posting multiple recipes at the same time. I could drag it out, do six separate posts with photos, but that would be excruciatingly boring for everyone. Besides, photos of salad dressings are bland at best. And I wanted to do this before salad season is over and we’re on to soup. I did take … Continue reading →
