Lemony romaine and avocado salad that's a perfect side dish or foundation to build a meal. Here are some ideas! When it's hot outside, you need a perfect little salad you can either use as a side salad, or build on to turn into a meal. This lemony romaine and avocado salad is mine, and it's like my little black dress I keep on hand for a wide range of occasions. You can find this salad in my new cookbook along with over 20 other recipes that don't require you to turn on the ...
Vegan Asparagus Salad with Potatoes and Lentils in a Lemon Vinaigrette
A spring vegan asparagus salad, hearty enough for a meal, loaded with asparagus, potatoes, lentils, radishes, sugar snap peas, and mint - all dressed with a bright lemon vinaigrette. Spring wakes slowly here in the mountains. After relishing the explosion of spring for decades outside San Francisco, I'm adjusting to a more tentative, gentle springing forth. Full confession: it's painful. I see four fuzzy buds one day on a bush when walking Paprika, and the next day another two gather up ...
Weekly Vegetarian Menu #1
Ok, you guys. Here we go with my first Weekly Vegetarian Menu of the year, leaving you plenty of time to pick up groceries and plan over the weekend. As many of you might remember, I was part of a group with some friends last year where we jointly provided weekly menu plans for you. I offered up vegetarian spins on meat and fish dishes, but I got a lot of pushback from readers who preferred to see vegetarian dinner ideas. I totally get it - you want dishes that were originally created to be ...
My Twelve Most Popular Recipes of 2017
I like to look back over the year to see which recipes called you into the kitchen. I never know what I'll find, and there are always surprises. As you can imagine, the results are always a little skewed by the length of time they've been around. A post from last January has had more time to get around then something I might have posted last week. Breads were the overall favorite with Easy Buttermilk Cornbread and Sweet Potato Bread with Honey taking the first two slots, and ...
Pear Vinaigrette
I would argue that you can have all the makings for a stellar salad, worthy of a James Beard award or something equally lofty, but if you dress it with some mediocre dressing you threw together at the last minute, the salad will quickly become forgettable at best, and jarring at worst. Case in point: I recently had a lentil salad at a restaurant that could have been amazing, but missed the mark due to a tart lemon dressing that overwhelmed the flavors of the salad. It needed the rounded depth of ...
Cauliflower and Crispy Chickpeas with Sun-Dried Tomatoes, Olives and Miso Dressing
Warm salad of roasted cauliflower and crispy chickpeas sautéed with sun-dried tomatoes and Kalamata olives, all tossed with a miso dressing. Do you have certain ingredients you always go to? The Italians, IMHO, have this nailed. Tomatoes, pasta, garlic, basil, and Parmesan. Those five ingredients can make several days of meals for me. Nothing against this winning combination, but I have my own favorites I often go to year-round. Cauliflower. Sun-dried tomatoes. Kalamata olives. ...
Grilled Fattoush Salad | #ProgressiveEats
Grilled fattoush salad with grilled peppers and zucchini, tossed with tomatoes, cucumbers, green onions, and chickpeas dressed in buttermilk-yogurt dressing. I attended The Yoga Expo this past weekend in Santa Clara. It's a big yoga and meditation day traveling around the country, with a stop scheduled for Vancouver, BC as well. There are also exhibitors for everything from crystals to homeopathy and juices in a pill form. If you decide to go to one of them, and I do recommend it, here's ...
Italian Peach Panzanella Bread Salad | #SundaySupper
This Italian peach panzanella is a bread salad with peaches, tomatoes, red onions, basil, mint, burrata, and garlicky ciabatta for a quick summer salad. So many simple dishes bursting with flavor come out of Italy. Panzanella bread salads are native to the Tuscan countryside and likely originated with farmers harvesting what was fresh in the fields - tomatoes, cucumbers, and basil - and tossing it with leftover bread. Nothing was wasted at that time. The bread is moistened by both the ...
Vegan Mango – Melon Slaw with Ginger and Lime
My husband has always warned me that better is the enemy of good. Meaning, if you've got something that works, but try to make it better, it doesn't work at all. For example, say you're frosting a cake and you see some piping that's off kilter just a little. Maybe you're the only one who would even see it, but suddenly it's ALL you can see. In a rash, way-over-confident moment, you decide to adjust it just a bit with say, your pinkie. You know the risks, but you're going to be so careful, it ...
Crunchy Kale and Apple Salad with Thai Peanut Butter Dressing
Crunchy winter salad of kale, Napa cabbage, apples, and honey roasted peanuts all dressed in a fabulous Thai peanut butter dressing. This post is part of The Food Network's #ComfortFoodFeast series on their blog, FNDish........ Some salads are all about the salad, and the dressing is just along for the ride. But sometimes, the salad is all about the dressing. This is one of those. The unassuming sauce you see in the jar is a peanut butter dressing, and may look a little drab, but trust ...
Fig Basted Roast Butternut Squash with Quinoa, Apple, and Fig Stuffing
We should have more than one day set aside each year to give thanks. Some might declare we should give thanks every day, and I don’t disagree, but I’m actually stating we should have Thanksgiving once a month. Not with all the commercial hoopla of people rising before dawn the day after so they can shiver in dark parking lots to be in line for some amazing-never-to-be-offered-again deal on a big screen TV, thank you very much. I’m talking about quietly setting aside one day a month on ...
Butternut Squash Panzanella Salad with Apples and Kale
Make an autumn version of a traditional Italian salad with this butternut squash panzanella salad tossed with apples and kale, dressed with an apple vinaigrette. I spent much of September in Italy attending an Italian language school in Treviso, a smallish town outside Venice. For 2 1/2 weeks I ate a ton of pasta, pizza, risotto, and tiramisu (a dessert created by a restaurant in Treviso). The trip was about language, food, and people -- meeting local Italians and making new friends with ...
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