I don’t weed my lawn. I eat it. One of the earliest food crops in my yard is bittercress, a member of the Cruciferae family of green plants (think mustard). It’s a pretty invasive plant that enjoys cold and wet conditions such as those we typically experience at this time of year. Reviled as a [...]
Archive for the ‘Salad’ Category
How to Eat Your Lawn: A Salad of Bittercress and Violets
Posted in Flowers, Foraging, Greens, Salad, tagged bittercress, Eat your lawn, eating violets, edible weeds on March 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Lentils with Sour Cherries, Bacon and Blue Cheese
Posted in Beans and legumes, Preserving with Plagemann & Fisher, Salad, Stone fruits, tagged Ottolenghi lentil salad on February 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Bursting with sweet, sour, smoky and salty flavors, this salad is a riff on a delicious-sounding recipe from Yotam Ottolenghi (The Cookbook), I used my home-pickled sour cherries instead of his dried cherries, vinegar and sugar. A new crop of cherries is still months away, but I’m already plotting what to make with them based [...]
Spiced Seckel Pears
Posted in Pears, Preserving, Preserving with Plagemann & Fisher, Salad, tagged Pickled pears on January 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Another in a series in which I comment on M.F.K. Fisher’s 1986 annotations of Catherine Plagemann’s 1967 Fine Preserving, layering past and present, research, experimentation and outright opinion. This project is a blast. Slightly tipsy table talk over the holidays made a few tongue twisters of our pickled Seckels. You can just imagine. I [...]
Wild Rice “Salad”
Posted in Grains, Salad, Uncategorized, tagged Wild rice salad on December 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Feed a few, feed a lot. After a small family dinner of roast chicken and a medley of multi-colored and wild rice, I was inspired to make a wild rice salad for a family luncheon for 18 a few days later. Our local health food store sells beautiful wild rice – which is not rice [...]
Curried Turkey Waldorf Salad
Posted in Apple, Chicken, Salad, tagged Curry in Waldorf Salad on November 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Nearly a week after Thanksgiving, with a pile of turkey still left over, I am starting to disguise it so it doesn’t taste like we’re eating the same thing for days on end. No more potatoes, gravy, stuffing for us, preferring instead to lighten things up a bit. Not that this salad is all that [...]
Summer Salad: Watermelon and Tomatoes with Feta and Mint
Posted in Melon, Salad, Tomato on September 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is a refreshing and delicious salad for this season of plentiful fruit. The tang of the cheese and spark of the mint are great complements to the slices of melon and tomato. I sometimes cut the fruit into chunks as opposed to slices or slabs. I sprinkled the tomatoes with a little salt and [...]
Full of Beans: Three Energizing Seasonal Salads
Posted in Beans and legumes, Herbs, Salad, tagged Green bean summer salad on August 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Here are three of the many ways we’ve been enjoying beans over the last couple of weeks since they arrived in full force: tossed deliciously with dill pesto, combined simply with raw tomatoes and basil, and served lavishly with feta cheese, toasted walnuts, olive oil and mint. No recipes required, though I explain dill pesto [...]
Lentil Salad with Roasted Peppers and Mint
Posted in Salad, tagged Picnic lentil salad on August 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A sure crowd pleaser, this lentil salad is great picnic fare. I make it every year for a large picnic since it holds up well and can be spruced up at the last moment with the addition of a little sherry vinegar, fresh herbs and feta cheese. The recipe came from the brilliant Greens Cook [...]
Summer Salads with Whole Grains
Posted in Grains, Salad, tagged Summer whole grain salad on July 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Whole grains lightened up with raw or lightly cooked vegetables and chopped herbs make a great centerpiece to summer meals. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve made two, with very different results. The first was quinoa tossed with tiny cubes of raw yellow zucchini (you could lightly steam it instead). It was dressed with [...]
Cooking with Color: Tomato-Calendula Salad and Blue Potatoes with Beets
Posted in Beets, Flowers, Potatoes, Salad, Tomato, tagged Calendula salad, Edible flowers, Potato and beet salad on July 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, I admit that I play with my food. I love compositions and juxtapositions on multiple levels — color, taste, texture, size, cut and so on – with intuitive, spontaneous, of-the-moment combinations of ingredients on hand. Summer’s bounty provides a wide palette, a basketful of opportunities to compose. There are amazing chefs throughout the world [...]
