I am having company for dinner tonight.. & could not decide what to make as a side dish with the chicken… so I decided to look through my own blog for a recipe that I might have forgotten about! & I found this! I love it..
Continue reading “Quinoa Pilaf with Dried Fruits ( first posted in January 2017)”
I am re-posting this salad …. I really need something green for dinner!! We are in a snow fall warning today in Edmonton….ha so green on our plates tonight!!!
Continue reading “Chopped Broccoli Salad ( originally posted Jan/18)”
This recipe is adapted from one my mother-in-law makes. I have cut down the sugar & some of the spices… My MIL always had coleslaw in the fridge whenever we went there to visit! Everyone ate coleslaw at least once a day!!
Continue reading “Simple Coleslaw”
An old favourite salad recipe that I forget about! With all of the new recipes I look at everyday & the new ‘trendy’ way to eat vegetables…kale, shaved brussels sprouts… it is nice to turn back & re-visit some past favs
Continue reading “Asian Coleslaw with Ichiban Noodles”
Fresh corn cut off the cob, fresh crisp tomatoes, mint & feta! This corn salad is delicious with just olive oil & salt & pepper to dress it. A perfect accompaniment to anything really.
Continue reading “Fresh Corn Salad with Tomatoes”
I don’t know if you have ever eaten Halloumi cheese but I love it. This cheese is having ‘a day’, showing up on menus in restaurants & it is available in most major grocery stores….in my city of Edmonton anyway.
Continue reading “Arugula Salad with Grilled Halloumi”
This spinach salad with fruit is an old favourite & one of my daughter’s all time fav! It comes to me from my friend Nora probably over 25 years ago….
Continue reading “Spinach Salad with Strawberries & Blackberries”
This is the quinoa salad that I made to use the Miso – Turmeric dressing from Bon Appetit with. Here is the link to that recipe from a previous post.
Continue reading “Quinoa Salad….with Miso-Turmeric dressing (or use any grain)”
We are invited out tonight & I am bringing this broccoli salad! It is crunchy, colourful & slightly sweet… Broccoli, purple cabbage, grated carrot …. and a few other ingredients. This salad is quick to put together & a good accompianment to any meal!
Here is the link to the original post !
Brussel Sprouts are not my favourite vegetable by any means. Sometimes if they are roasted & seasoned with maple syrup….haha….I can eat them! But I do like them raw in this salad. Paired with Kale, this is so healthy & fresh.
Continue reading “Brussel Sprout & Kale Slaw”
I love this salad dressing. It is adapted from a recipe on the Canadian Living Magazine website. This is one of my ‘go-to’ salad dressings. The salad that I have put it on tonight has roasted sweet potatoes & roasted yellow pepper. lettuce, tomatoes,cucumber & sliced almonds. I like this dressing on a salad with a grain added to it. I use it a lot on quinoa salads … Kale salad would be good… the uses for this is endless I think!! There is a difference from this to a tahini sauce. Tahini sauce does not have vignette which is added in this recipe .
I made only 1 change to the recipe on the website, so my recipe is an inspired recipe that I adapted from the Canadian Living Magazine website!
Here is the recipe
Tahini Salad Dressing
Ingredients
1/4 cup olive oil
3 tbsp red wine vinegar
1 tbsp maple syrup
2 tbsp tahini
salt & pepper to taste
Method
The salad I made tonight
Roast 1 peeled sweet potato … I cut it into chunks, drizzled it with oil, wrapped it in foil & baked it until soft. Let cool This can take a long time, so I roasted this early in the day & put it in the fridge….
Roast 1 thinly sliced yellow pepper … put the pepper slices on a lined baking sheet, drizzle with oil & sprinkle some coarse salt on, put into a 400f oven & roast until soft..watch because the time depends on how big you have cut your pepper
6 cups of salad greens
2 cocktail tomatoes, sliced
1 mini cucumber, thinly sliced
sliced almonds, I just sprinkled some on the salad
Pour some of the dressing on the salad & toss! You will have leftover salad dressing. It will keep n the fridge for several days!
Enjoy!
I love pasta salad, but the problem is sometimes I find that the pasta is quite tasteless & worse for me is if it is undercooked…or overcooked I suppose! I realize I don’t love the vegetables in there either…I am not being critical of other peoples pasta salads…I just wanted to make mine a bit different & see how it turned out.
Continue reading “Greek Pasta Salad”
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