Brussels Sprouts are my favorite. I usually only saute them. Yesterday I tried something I had read about – shaved sprout salad. I tried an Asian-inspired dressing to change it up and it was great! Enjoy! #mpprecipe-container-10 .mpp-topleft { width: 100% !important; } #mpprecipe-container-10 .mpp-topright { display:none !important; } Shaved Brussels Sprout Salad with SesameRead More
Mid-westerners love layered salads
Whether it is a 7-layered one or jello, Mid-westerners love to layer a salad. I don’t know what it is but go to any potluck or family dinner and there is bound to be some sort of striated salad. Growing up we had said 7-layer salad every summer, and, every Thanksgiving, a lime jello withRead More
(fill in the blank)-free foods are no fun
A lot of the time food labelled “(fill in the blank)-free” aren’t that much fun. Fat-free. Sugar-free. Gluten-free. I’m not advocating a full-fat or all-sugar diets but there’s gotta be a balance somewhere. Gluten-free seems to be all the rage right now. And I understand there are certain illnesses that require one to have aRead More
Z is for Zucchini
With each summer comes plenty of zucchini whether it comes from our garden or what we find at the farmer’s market. It is abundant. I’m always amazed how much we get out of our plant or two each summer. Normally I fall back on old tried & trues like grilled zucchini & zucchini bread butRead More
Stick Something in Your Bowl
I will start by saying that I love putting things into other things. Food-wise, that means bowls, We’re talking soup, salad, cereal; anything that needs something to keep it together. Here we’re talking about a whole meal made of smaller parts but held together as one in a large container: the rice bowl. This is commonRead More
All Hail the Kale
Fresh.Local.Healthy. Maybe some buzz words of late but no less good ones to live by food-wise. With that said, the last few years we have grown a small garden in our small backyard. We didn’t exactly plan and plot it out. It is in what used to be a flower garden that got overran byRead More