Marinated Mixed Vegetable Salad makes 4 generous servings of barely cooked, marinated vegetables for a fresh spring taste. Make it the night before for a quick salad to serve with home made Chicken Wings, barbecued meats or poultry or even … Continue reading
About ten years ago, Portabello mushrooms seemed to be the fashionable ingredient of the day. Portabello mushrooms are just grown up cremini mushrooms and cremini mushrooms are the original parent of today’s white mushroom. Mushrooms are commonly classified with vegetables, … Continue reading
This Fresh Mushroom Salad features a tarragon dressing which is used to marinate the mushrooms and dress the greens and cherry tomatoes. This has been a brutal winter for fresh greens. The places to south of us, who normally supply … Continue reading
Why not enjoy a salad every day? Spinach Salad with Pears, Brie and Raspberries, has a raspberry vinaigrette and is a perfect complement to grilled meats. As an added benefit, spinach is a potassium all-star. According to an article in … Continue reading
I love making this dish in the summer, when the Farmers’ Market is filled with red ripe tomatoes and multi-coloured Heritage tomatoes are plentiful. That being said, it is a real treat to serve this dish in March, when summer … Continue reading
I know what you are thinking, that March is not strawberry season in Canada and you are correct. I truly support our Farmer’s Markets all season long, but right now the snow is preventing them from producing much for sale! … Continue reading
Since I started making this Layered Salad about fifteen years ago, I have varied the layers depending on what I have on hand, but I always start with lettuce and top with the cheese and tomatoes. If I use sliced … Continue reading
I truly believe the key to all good salads are crisp greens. Too often Spinach salad presents as a wilted salad with stringy stems….yuck! The technique described below of thoroughly washing, then spinning dry, then wrapping in a clean tea … Continue reading
This salad which seems to be making a comeback, brings me back many years, when it seemed to be one of the only choices for a green salad in the winter and fresh lettuce was restricted to the iceburg variety. … Continue reading
We first experienced a really good Greek Salad on our first trip to Greece (what a surprise!) The actual surprise was that we ordered a Village Salad and that was all the ingredients listed below except for the lettuce. I … Continue reading