Family favourites (old and new)
Ingredients corn kernels from two ears of roasted corn* 1 cup chopped tomatoes 1 cup chopped bell pepper (orange or red) 1 cup minced red onion 1 Tbsp or more chopped fresh parsley (would also be good with cilantro and basil) 1/2 lime, juiced 3 …
Fantastic and flavourful, this salad is a feast for the eyes and the taste buds. It’s from Feasting At Home’s, Carrot Raisin Salad. The recipe provides different options but this is what we did and it was delicious. Ingredients 4-5 cups carrots, grated Zest of …
I needed a side dish for beef shanks with gremolata and I had bought some organic French lentils (aka puy lentils) so I decided to make a warm French lentil salad. This recipe is based on this Green Lentil and Bacon Salad I found on …
My Mother’s Day dinner of choice was a Salade Niçoise with seared Ahi tuna. We are a family who cooks and a dinner out is the exception not the norm so my son, who is home from Uni for the summer (yay!) helped me prepare …
My dear friend Paula, gifted me her brand spanking new fancy, schmancy Cuisinart (think the Binford 3000 of Cuisinarts) because she felt guilty about not using it enough. I have promised to use it enough for the both of us…starting now. I had a massive …
So, I have a bad habit of buying rice stick noodles (the wide ones, not the angel hair type) and never getting around to cooking them because in the past I’ve always messed them up (usually the ones I buy don’t have any English cooking …
Quinoa and kale are great combined. Add in aromatic toasted almonds for crunch and dried cranberries for a hit of sweet to offset the kale and WHAM…yummy salad (even if the photo is a bit blurry…I was shaking from hunger). Ingredients: 1 bunch kale washed …
Wild rice salad is a great power packed lunch. It is gluten free and you can add whatever ingredients you have on hand to jazz it up. I saw one recipe that called for seedless green grapes and toasted pecans instead of almonds. Really you …
The Lost + Found Cafe makes a delicious quinoa and spinach salad and this is my attempt to replicate it at home. Ingredients: 1 bunch baby spinach washed and spun 1 c. quinoa cooked and cooled* 1 can chickpeas rinsed and drained 1 can lentils …
My son the carnivore is heading off to boarding school on Tuesday so I thought this warm steak salad would be a good way to feed him a steak and get some extra veggies into him…also since my daughter “the mostly vegetarian” had already eaten …