I love to eat fresh salads in hot weather made with interesting ingredients, some raw veggies, nuts, and greens... and grains.
I may have posted this before but it's so darn good, I'm posting it again just in case you missed it! I baked on-the-bone chicken breasts, shredded the meat and placed it on top of a variety of fresh lettuces. The best part of this salad is the amazing avocado dressing that's a zip to make in the blender using avocado, olive oil, a little honey, salt and pepper. So yummy for a paleo breakfast!
This is a really good Asian salad made with coleslaw mix, grapes, apples, celery and oranges.
Tabouli is one of our all time favorite salads! I added black olives to this one just because it sounded good that day! I just love the lemony, tomatoey, parsley, garlicky flavors all mixed together with good olive oil.
Make this great corn and black bean salad when fresh corn is at its best! This has diced red onion and parsley in it, too. Delicious!
This is one stinkin' good salad made with fava beans, garbanzos, red kidney beans, red onion, garlic, all mixed together with a vinegarette. Yum!
Those little heirloom summer tomatoes are so good on a simple bed of butter lettuce, topped with blue cheese and drizzled with balsamic vinegar and evoo. Just right for hot summer days.
Just realized how many different salads I've made!! This panzanella is another one of my favorites, and is made with homemade croutons, red onion, red and yellow bell peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, and I added kalamata olives because I like them in this salad--gives it a nice kick.
Hey! How'd this get in here? Well, this year I'm growing my herbs in planters on the front porch in hopes that those pesky squirrels and deer won't find them. We'll see. I like to use lots of fresh herbs for salad making and cooking in general.
Well, after such a long time gone from posting on my blog, I'm not sure where to begin... hmmm, the month of May was a gully-womper of a rain show! Every single day it rained. And it rained so much that we broke the record for the most rain in May set back in 1935! So, needless to say, I didn't cook much outdoors. Seemed that every time I got everything ready to grill, down came the rain. Oh well, stuff happens. Now that we're into June, though, I'm sure I'll be posting more grilling outdoors pictures. Just not yet...
I'm still cooking without a "real" oven, just using my roaster oven. (Why does that remind me of when I was kid?) It does a decent job, except for baking, most of the time. And I really miss not being able to make pizza since a while back I was on the search for the perfect crust, and was just about there (if you recall) when "poof" my oven decided to just give up. Anyway, this is a picture of tilapia I baked in the roaster oven. I cooked it with butter, lemon, paprika and capers. It was good.
This is a very (and I mean very) easy recipe for peach cobbler that I cooked in my roaster oven. I know, I said baking doesn't go well in the roaster oven, but this turned out pretty well. The problem is that it got a little burned around the edges. I'm experimenting with baking in this oven... This cobbler is made using Bisquick and canned peaches!
And this is called "Gemista," a Greek stuffed tomato recipe that is made with uncooked rice, zucchini, fresh mint, garlic, onion, chopped tomatoes, and breadcrumbs. Stuff the tomato then place it on top of chopped potatoes, salt and pepper it all and drizzle with olive oil; then bake it in the oven. My roaster oven worked very well for this dish. It was delicious!
These are stuffed sweet potatoes I made for the vegetarian in my family. First, I cooked the potatoes in the roaster oven (works very well for cooking potatoes), then I cut them in half and scooped a little of the potato out, added black beans, cheddar cheese and put them back in the oven to melt the cheese. Then I topped them off with a homemade pico de gallo.
