One of my favorite childhood memories is creamy fruit salads made with various combinations of grapes, cherries, mandarin oranges, pineapple, or apples, sometimes with crunchy nuts mixed in. The creamy part also varied, often made with sour cream and cream cheese or whipped topping, but all were sweet and sometimes tasted more like dessert than [...]
Zucchini Soba Salad
August 28, 2009 By 9 Comments
My introduction to soba noodles was actually on a plane flying from Tokyo to Honolulu, admittedly not the best place to get good food. The flight attendants came around with breakfast and asked if I wanted the Japanese or the American breakfast, and I chose the Japanese because I could see the noodles that someone [...]
Swabian Potato Salad (Schwäbischer Kartoffelsalat)
July 1, 2009 By 6 Comments
We had traditional Swabian potato salad (Schwäbischer kartoffelsalat), a salad which has yellow potatoes and a very simple oil and vinegar dressing, a few times while in Stuttgart. It is often used as a base for salad greens such as arugula or lettuces, and in fact it was served beneath the green salad at every [...]
Cannellini Bean Salad with White Balsamic Vinaigrette
June 4, 2009 By 8 Comments
Bean salads are an essential part of any recipe file and are great for summer picnic salads since they are often dressed with dairy-free vinaigrettes. I like to mix up my own vinaigrettes, usually tasting and estimating until I get a flavor I like. In his new book, Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft [...]
Mediterranean Orzo Salad
August 14, 2008 By 9 Comments
Tabouleh (aka Tabbouleh, Tabouli)
July 21, 2008 By 9 Comments
Early today I returned home from 10 glorious days of vacation to find our garden in full production mode. All the tomato plants have green tomatoes, teasing, making me wait until they ripen. I could pick some of the green peppers to encourage more flowering, and I probably will as I find it difficult to [...]
Cilantro Slaw
June 26, 2008 By 6 Comments
We like to use herbs in our green salads for the extra splash of flavor, but we prefer to make the herbs a main part of the salad rather than just a garnish. Cilantro, parsley, and basils work very well as salad flavor boosters and they also provide antioxidants and essential vitamins. Fortunately our garden [...]
Red Potato Salad
May 21, 2008 By 6 Comments
Asian Cabbage Salad
September 13, 2007 By 7 Comments
I have to confess that I am sometimes impatient. (Michael will probably laugh his head off when he reads that statement.) Ok, maybe more often than that. When I make up my mind about something, it’s got to get done yesterday or no later than now. Right now I’m impatient with our container garden, which [...]
