Category Archives: Salad

Celery and Radish Salad with Avocado and Toasted Cumin Vinaigrette

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Danguole| 9 Comments

Two items on the agenda today!  Well, three if you count the salad.

In fact, I can cover the salad ground briefly right now: it’s fresh, it’s seasonal, it’s healthy, it’s vegan, it’s crunchy and avocado-creamy, and it’s delicious.  It’s also completely self-explanatory, which allows me to talk about something else with you today.  Selfish, I know, but sometimes these things can speak for themselves…  Everyone knows that celery is especially eloquent.

Anyway, I was reading this lovely post by my friend Sara the other day, and it reminded me of something I thought of a while back and keep meaning to discuss.

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Shaved Asparagus and Ham Salad with Dill

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Danguole| 2 Comments

So, as it turns out, I’m pretty good at being totally behind and somehow also ahead at the same time?

I don’t have an Easter recipe for you, although I think that pork chops with rhubarb sauce are perfect casual Easter dinner material, that this orzo salad would make a great side, that you should take cheese puffs everywhere, and that Easter is the perfect time to kick off ice cream season.  I also–and this is what I mean by being kind of ahead of things–have an idea for your leftovers.  Ham, specifically…  Alongside lots of fresh, crunchy vegetables.

With all due respect to bagged greens, there is so much more fun to be had with salad.  I’m pretty sure almost any vegetable can be turned into a base for salad, whether raw, roasted, steamed, shredded, sliced, shaved…  The possibilities are, well, not endless (endful?), but close.  So let’s play with vegetables.  (And PORK.)

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Preserved Lemon and Poppy Seed Vinaigrette (on shaved snow pea/avocado salad)

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Danguole| 8 Comments

A wise (maybe? sometimes?) cartoon man once said it: You don’t win friends with salad.

I sigh.  Is it true?  I love Homer.  I also love salad.  I love this salad.  How is this post going to affect our friendship?  I care about what you think.  I think about what you think.  Not enough to make it creepy or sad, but, ya know–I like you, and I like that you’re here.  I’m not too cool to tell you.

I also follow up!  Remember when I made preserved lemons and told you you could use them in a vinaigrette?  Well, here she is!  Tangy and lemony-bright, but in a different way than your standard, fresh lemon dressing might be.  Dotted with poppy seeds, because they’ve just been on my mind lately, and that’s how I roll.

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Farro with Roasted Carrots and Preserved Lemons

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Danguole| 2 Comments

I’m afraid I am becoming predictable.  Smoking! Gorgonzola and goat cheese in everything!  Experimental ice cream flavors galore!

And here I am, once again bringing you farro.  Thank goodness I can’t physically see you rolling your pretty little eyes at me.

This reminds me of some interview I’d seen with Mariah Carey, where she addressed criticisms that her songs sound the same. Being the capital-d Diva that she is, girlfriend was just like, “Well, excuse me for having a style.”  Boom!

I apologize.  That interview is firmly lodged in my brain where Spanish verb conjugations ought to be…  And it’s probably never leaving.

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Wheatberry Salad with Apple, Fennel and Pomegranate

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Danguole| 5 Comments

This is for your hangover.

Not the drinking kind–for a booze hangover, in fact, I’d give you a high-five and direct your debauched little butt to waffle thing one and waffle thing two.  Maybe some eggs sitting on a bunch of spicy tomato and chickpea sauce.  Oh!  Or a chicken and waffles sandwich.  Which, by the way, has bacon-jalapeno jam on it, which you could eat with a spoon if you really YOLOed it up the night before.  Or maybe it’s lunchtime already and you feel like spicy Thai noodles to make you feel human again (if only by melting your face off).  Hair of the dog? I have a dangerous idea for you.

What I really have in mind today, though, is a gravy-meat-potatoes hangover.  We’ve all been there; if you can’t possibly stand the thought of drippy, fatty, gravy-laden meat, atop a bed of starchy, butter-laden potatoes, I have an idea for you.  It’s fresh, hearty, filling and flavorful.

See, I’m not a lazy food blogger–I’m just thinking ahead, is all.

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Posted in Fall, Healthy (?), Holidays, Main courses, Salad, Sides, Vegetarian

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Roasted Beet and Farro Salad

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Danguole| 7 Comments

I got karma-ed big time this morning.  Big.  Time.

See, last night I did an evil thing that I normally don’t do.  I saw a spider scurrying across the kitchen floor (not that this happens often), and, well…  It was moving too quickly for me to do my usual hippie-dippy thing with a sheet of paper and gentle release back into the outdoors.  This bad boy (or girl) had places to be, things to do.  So.  I think you can figure out what I did.

This morning, I was up way too early, and as I groggily made my way into the kitchen in the dark, my sock found itself, all of a sudden, cold and wet and covered with bubbly foam.  In the very same spot where my spider friend met its maker, which was actually the first thought in my sleepy, guilty brain.

Coincidence?  Doubt it.

You got me, spider….  And you have CostCo to thank for packaging dishwashER liquid and dishwashING liquid in a way-too-similar manner.  Universe, karma, CostCo–all working together on your eight-legged behalf.  I salute you, and hope all is well on the other side.

If you were human, I’d make you a nice salad…  But I also wouldn’t murder you (swearsies).  I hope dedicating this post to you is enough.

Anyway, salad.

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