My son Michael narrowed his eyes and scowled with concentration. He was standing in front of the open refrigerator, trying to help me figure out dinner on the hottest day of June. “Mom, is there any reason we couldn’t put those leftover red potatoes in a pasta salad?”
I thought for a moment and couldn’t come [...]
This comes from the grandmother of my friend Jeri, and appears in their family cookbook. It’s a basic cheese-ball, good for party hors-d’oevres, football nights, and Christmas brunch:
As Laura mentioned in the post on “lightening up” Thanksgiving dinner, I’m not terribly attached to the traditional green bean casserole. I AM, however, committed to having a green vegetable on the table tomorrow along with the turkey and dressing and potatoes. This salad is festive, special, and delicious…all while still being a lite variation [...]
A couple of my boys are just miserable with allergies right now. It’s THAT time of year here, I guess. Michael, our “baby” has been experimenting with eliminating dairy from his diet. So far, the results have been mixed….probably because it’s really hard to completely eliminate dairy in my kitchen. There’s also the problem with [...]
Tomatoes, lovely tomatoes. I could rhapsodize for hours on the joys of perfectly ripe tomatoes. THESE are the tomatoes that I dream of all winter when the only tomatoes I can buy are pale, juiceless shadows of the real thing.
I needed something really QUICK to serve with BBQ beef sandwiches tonight. My family liked this salad so much that I think it will become a regular at our table!
Some summer evenings are just too warm for a hot meal and today was one of those days. We eat most of our meals out on our front porch at this time of year. Tonight my goal was to create dinner out of the contents of my fridge and NOT use my oven or stove. [...]
I made taco salad for dinner last night, and I thought I should post it because it was easy and delicious. Some of you will be blinking at the idea that anybody might need an actual recipe for taco salad, but sometimes the recipes that are simple and obvious to me are new and exciting [...]
We had a very enjoyable evening tonight with three other families, our first outdoor dinner event of the summer. We gathered at my friend Amy’s house, and each family brought meat to grill, plus something to share. As is usual with these kinds of affairs, we had a LOT of yummy food! [...]
We were blessed to share a meal with our friends, Darren and Sita, on Saturday. Sita served an amazing salad that simply DEMANDED to be eaten in vast quantities. The flavors were delicious and the vegetables were cold and fresh. This is definitely going to go on my list of favorite summer salads. I’d take [...]
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