I know it’s August, but I still have a few salad recipes to post. It’s still summer and lots of people actually buy lettuce so they can enjoy it for more then the short growing season. For more ambitious gardeners, one can plant lettuce now to harvest in the cooler days of September. The salad lovers of the world can never have too many recipes / ideas. This Sausage, Potato … Continue reading →
No one (that I know of) has said that a crumble has to be sweet. Well, maybe Google….. The difference between a crumble and a crisp, according to Google, is that a crisp normally contains oats and a crumble doesn’t. It also says that both are a fruit dessert but I dare to be different. Why can’t they be a vegetable side dish? Besides, I’m bored with calling all things … Continue reading →
When I was growing up there were 2 kinds of salads served in summer as side dishes. My mother grew ‘Black-Seeded Simpson’, which is a leaf lettuce (rather than a head lettuce). She always served it with a dressing she made with cider vinegar, sugar and cream. She added a spoonful of minced onion and that was the salad. I hated it. When I visited my cousin ‘in the city’ … Continue reading →
One more green salad for summer. The lettuce isn’t looking quite as fresh in the markets these days and I think it’s time to switch to pasta salads. And rice and quinoa and barley and couscous…. So many choices; so little summer. I called the vinaigrette I used for this salad ‘French’ Dressing as it’s meant to be like the restaurant staple French Dressing of my youth. This is better … Continue reading →
A few weeks ago I mentioned that we had stocked up on some of our favorite foods in Spain, one of them being whole pimientos. Pimientos are heart-shaped red peppers that are very popular all over Spain: sliced and added to salads or bocadillos (sandwiches) or just eaten as a tapa or stuffed – our personal favorite. My mother always had a tiny jar of chopped pimientos in the fridge … Continue reading →
Our neighbor had to go to a wedding in Scotland. As they were going to be gone for a few weeks, the poor folks had to find a home for.some smoked salmon that wouldn’t keep. Being a good neighbor, I volunteered. It was what we aficionados refer to as ‘ends’. I buy the same thing. When one is presenting a plate of paper thin, sliced smoked salmon one buys paper … Continue reading →
After I made the Pasta with Goat Cheese the other day I had a bit of goat cheese left. We were in the middle of a heatwave and I was sadly lacking in imagination. I decided to do the same thing but with zucchini noodles rather than pasta. That was good, too and made a nice, quick and easy, first course. Again, I was too lazy to even get out … Continue reading →
