salad

Sadly this is not a pink-themed Hallmark Holiday recipe, but you might still enjoy this Brussels Sprouts and Navel Orange Salad recipe if you are planning on making dinner for your special someone this upcoming Valentine’s Day. As discussed before in this other brussels sprouts post, I have become quite…

Anyone else victim of the post-Thanksgiving I-never-want-to-eat-again syndrome? (I had these type of thoughts for approximately 5 minutes before starting to fantasize about food again..) But in the following weeks before we sit down again for a family binge-eating session (Christmas), we might want to consider eating a little lighter…

I’m trying to cope with the fact that it’s no longer the weekend.  We got back last night from an amazing weekend trip to Santa Barbara with friends and I am definitely not ready to be awake or working at the present time. (Pillow in my office, can haz?) For…

Summer is officially here!  Let’s celebrate by gorging on fresh and roasted summer vegetables tossed with rustic bread. That’s what I was thinking, at least, when I decided to make this Summer Panzanella. Panzanella is a hearty salad that heralds from Tuscany, Italy, and typically is made up of a combination…

If you are also feeling like you doubled your body weight in the last 1-2 weeks, you might also like to join the January “let’s only eat salads” club. But if you are also feeling like extreme deprivation (i.e. kale smoothies) is not quite what the doctor ordered, I’d definitely you…

This is one of those incredibly tasty but also incredibly easy meals that exemplifies all things summer.  It is also one of those recipes that you have, have, HAVE to find the best quality ingredients money can buy.  The whole point of simplistic recipes is to let the pureness of…

So… I’ve been just waiting for the perfect time to share this recipe.  But, I can wait no longer!  This recipe is inspired by our recent trip to the Pacific Northwest, aka the Portland Adventure Series.  Salmon and blackberries, you say?  Does that really work together? Fear not my friends,…

Mmmm chickpeas, garbanzo, channa, chole.. whatever you want to call them. They are the most delicious protein-packed little legumes money can buy.  I love making vegetarian dishes with chickpeas because they’re delicious, filling, and satisfying.  While I am not vegetarian, I could completely get behind a completely vegetarian diet if…

Oh my goodness.  This salad. My assignment: I was tasked with the creation of a salad for book club to go along with the theme of the book, A Handmaid’s Tale.  We needed something juicy, raunchy, and perhaps slightly bitter. My inspiration: This past week I was having these intense cravings…

As you may have gathered, I tend to have intense food obsessions.  My current obsession is hazelnuts in salads.  Prior to a few months ago I had never had hazelnuts in salads.  I loved them in desserts, but never considered that they would make an excellent alternative to the overdone…