It is beautiful in Philadelphia, sunny, breezy, early-summery and also sometimes hot and humid. The vegetables are overflowing the raised beds and tumbling out of the CSA box and my fridge is packed. And I’m loving every minute of it. But I need to eat a lot of vegetables to keep up, and lately I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘salad’
19 Aug
Summer Quinoa Salad
Lately I’ve been loving cold grain salads with fresh vegetables. For this salad I boiled some of the red Incan Quinoa that I like, and added to it fresh heirloom tomatoes, green pepper and corn cut right off the cob. Just a dash of olive oil and some fresh lime juice, and this became a [...]
11 Aug
Bulgar Salad with Baby Heirloom Tomatoes, Swiss Chard and Goat Cheese
Perhaps you’ve noticed that it’s too hot to cook. But I wasn’t going to let my beautiful swiss chard, soon to wilt, go to waste. I made this quick salad with bulgar (or cracked wheat) that is an easy-to-cook whole grain. Much like couscous, you just have to cover it with hot water and let [...]
22 Jul
Back in the East, eating salads
I’ve been a bad blogger, I know. I know. But I spent the last week eating from the YMCA of the Rockies cafeteria, and let me tell you, there was not a lot of exciting and photogenic vegetarian food to share with you. And I could of taken photos of the gas station dill pickle [...]
31 Mar
Roasted Red Pepper, Garbanzo and Chipotle Salad
I’ve been meaning to post this salad I made for a work lunch, but since I originally made it for 30 people, it took some motivation to decide to cut the recipe down. Michelle, the assistant to the director, says it tastes just like a Chipotle burrito, but without all the fat! Warning – it’s [...]
27 Feb
Roasted Pear Salad with mixed greens, arugula, goat cheese, and tarragon
I have to keep shaking the salads up for the lunch programs I make at work, otherwise our guests (and our staff, and me!) will get bored. This salad was made with baby greens, some arugula, pears roasted in the oven for 10 minutes with fresh tarragon and just a sprinkle of sugar, toasted walnuts [...]
15 Jan
Seaweed Salad, basic
“I’ll just pick up a seaweed salad at work,” Señor Lanky said. “No!” I said. “I have seaweed in the fridge!” And I did, hidden behind some soy milk and next to the stuffed olives. I purchased it long ago at H-Mart, and just never got around to using it. Luckily, seaweed lasts forever. This [...]
10 Jan
Korean-Style Cucumber Salad with Soy and Ginger, on Romaine
The secret to this cucumber salad from How to Cook Everything is to peel the cucumbers, scrape out the seeds inside before slicing them, and then let them drain, salted, in a colander before rinsing. I used the Korean-style variation, adding chili sesame oil. The recipe is for the dressed cucumbers alone, but I laid [...]
23 Nov
lunchtime salads
I prepare lunch buffets for work at least once a week, and try to keep them delicious, healthy, vegetarian-friendly, and budget conscious. Since I’m often eating these lunches, too, I also don’t want to feel bored, either preparing them or eating them, especially when I have multiple lunches to prepare in one week. I’ve started [...]
