Grilled Vegetables

It’s the taste of another perfect summer meal: grilled veggies. They’re so easy, it’d be silly not to at least try them. Of course grilling keeps the heat out of the kitchen, but the real appeal of these vegetables is their incredible flavor.

It’s very easy. You start with fresh vegetables, cut them to the appropriate [...]

Greek Salad

I’m bringing this post out of semi-retirement. This recipe is just too good not to share again.
My mother-in-law gave me this recipe years ago and it’s still one of our favorite summer salads. I made it a couple of nights ago and then spent the next few days fighting off the grazers in my home [...]

The little things that make all the difference

I was discussing with my son Michael (who is also passionate about cooking good food)  the LITTLE things that make all the difference between good food and GREAT food. As we were chatting, I realized that most of the little things that make such a difference are really easy things to incorporate into a kitchen [...]

Leah’s Pasta Salad

My friend Leah Facebooked me today to tell me she had made my Secret Weapon Vinaigrette and used it on a pasta salad using leftover bowtie pasta– demonstrating nicely what we are all about here at My Sister’s Kitchen:  cooking “by ear”, experimenting with new and wonderful combinations, using what you have to create food [...]

Herbed Chicken Wheatberry Salad

In the quest to use up last week’s CSA veggies, I started this evening’s dinner prep this afternoon by cooking a pot of wheatberries. Then I started pulling things out of the fridge, and this salad began to take shape.  It is a salad that can be modified to use whatever you happen to have–so [...]

Laura’s Secret Weapon Vinaigrette

I’m guessing that there are plenty of people out there who have made a vinaigrette much like this several thousand times, so it’s not actually a secret.  (But I thought it made a punchy title, so there ya go.)  I made this up tonight to dress a salad I’ll post in a separate recipe.  The [...]

Happy Independence Day!

To those of our readers who are Americans, we wish you a Happy (and safe) Independence Day.  (And to those of you outside the USA, thanks for reading–you’re welcome to try out our recipes as well, even if you’re not celebrating the Fourth.)
We thought we’d draw your attention to a few of our past posts, [...]