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Friday Recipe Exchange: Cold Salads, Part Deux
It’s been over 100 degrees most of this week and when that happens, I want only two things: cold fruits and cold vegetables. Okay and maybe some ice cream, but we already did that post. So it seemed...
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Greek Salad
We needed to finish out the ground lamb we had thawed so gyros were in order. I looked for suggestions for a side and saw mentions of a Greek salad in several places. A search for “Greek salad”...
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Mmm… Gyros
The mint is starting to come back. I doubt we can eat enough gyros to eradicate it during the normal course. It’s wildly invasive and this patch has been sprouting anew for years now after more than...
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Summer Slaw
We swung by the supermarket deli to pick up some of their fried chicken and a couple of sides – we had been shopping garden centers and were getting hungry with nothing quick to eat in the fridge. We...
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Friday Recipe Exchange: Tidbits
JeffreyW uses the Tidbits title when he puts together a lot of different items in one post, so I thought I would co-opt it for this eclectic post. It’s been a busy week of cooking, surprisingly. When...
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Recipe Exchange: Best Served Cold
With July heat in full swing and the dog days of August coming up, I thought cold recipes would be a good idea for tonight’s recipe exchange. It made working in the kitchen much more appealing this...
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Tidbits
I’ve been on a fruit salad kick. Lots of fresh fruit at the market this time of year. Grapes are a mainstay, I use both red and green grapes and I like to cut them in half unless they are really...
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Friday Recipe Exchange: Mix It Up
I did quite a bit of cooking this week, but it’s been busy enough that I haven’t put together the recipes or taken a lot of photos. So tonight I’m highlighting some past favorites. Pictured above is...
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Tomatoes! So many! The weather has been playing havoc with the yields, it may have slowed but it hasn’t stopped them. Brings up the dilemma faced by most all tomato growers: What to do with them...
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Around here this cucumber and tomato salad with sweet onions is almost always in the fridge. I added some blanched broccoli to this batch as a change of pace. It’s in a simple vinaigrette of seasoned...
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