Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Side Salads – vegetable or green salads are the perfect accompaniment to summer cooking.
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 … 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 … 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. … 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 … 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 … 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 … Continue reading…
Another recipe that I have been making since the beginning of time, this is based on one from the Time Life “Foods of the World” series. The first time I had a similar salad was in Germany. We were having a simple lunch of wurst und salat. I had expected the typical Midwestern version of … Continue reading…