A salad is more about composing beauty and balancing interesting flavors than following a recipe. Sometimes the best salads are born of inspiration and availability. Last Christmas I wanted to make something healthy and festive, so I thought something like this: “What do I have that is green or red?” I ended up putting together…. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'dressings'
Recipe Connection: Festive Holiday Greek Salad
November 2nd, 2010 · 12 Comments · Recipes
Tags: apples·carnival·dressings·feta·Greek dressing·salad·spinach·walnuts·Whole Foods for the Holidays
A Gathering of Homemade Dressings
February 2nd, 2010 · 14 Comments · Do It Yourself, Recipes
I never thought homemade dressings would be something I would do, but when I gave up all white and corn sugars last year for Lent, I tried some out of necessity. I love yellow mustard, but I got sick of having it on my salads all the time, plus I knew I needed some healthy [...]
Simple Homemade Gifts: Healthy Salad Dressings and More
November 19th, 2009 · 15 Comments · Do It Yourself, Recipes, Upgraded Nutrition
The first time I met my future mother-in-law, she gave me a gift. I was a freshman in college and her son’s first girlfriend (we’d been dating about a week at the time). It was near Valentine’s Day, which was cause enough for a gift bag, some tissue paper and a bottle of lotion, some [...]
Recipe Connection: Asian Toasted Sesame Dressing
September 24th, 2009 · 19 Comments · Do It Yourself, Recipes, Upgraded Nutrition
My husband is a great meter for new, homemade recipes. He’s very skeptical of things that I make myself that he already (really) enjoys from the store. When he says something like, “That looks just like a *real* English muffin!” it’s music to my poor, kitchen-weary ears. If husband says, “This might be better than [...]
What I Learned This Week: Hiding Beets
July 21st, 2009 · 13 Comments · Kids in the Kitchen, Recipes
What I learned this week: You can’t hide beets in a smoothie like you can greens. “It tastes like a garden,” according to my husband, and by that he did NOT, unfortunately, mean fresh, local and homegrown goodness. He meant dirt, but was too wise to say that in front of our 4-year-old, who drank [...]
Recipe Connection: Frugal, Healthy Homemade Dressings with Olive Oil
June 5th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Do It Yourself, Frugality, Recipes, Upgraded Nutrition
Since EVOO is best eaten cold (see this post for details on which olive oil to buy and how to use it), making salad dressing with it is a simple way to incorporate it into your diet. There’s also a great added health benefit to consuming olive oil with your vegetables: carotenoids (beta-carotene, etc.) are [...]
