Now this is a main course salad. After eating this, you will leave the dinner table feeling so fulfilled you’d think it was Thanksgiving day. I think the people who don’t enjoy eating salads as a main course just haven’t run into the right one. Here’s the thing: cold chopped vegetables on a plate isn’t [...]
(original post here) My husband, without fail, orders this salad every single time we go out to eat Thai food. It is always in some incarnation on the menus of every Thai restaurant we try. He craves the coolness of the vegetables combined with the spiciness of the dressing. The meal itself is perfect for [...]
I’m not sure why the Omnivore was so stunned when I served dinner the night I made this salad. We’d gone together to the grocery store specifically to pick up kale. He’d commented that we should rename kale to kaleb because it just sounds nicer. We’d fed the stems and ribs of the kale leaves [...]
Every summer my husband gets a wild hare and decides he needs to track down the perfect coleslaw recipe. He’ll come home from the grocery store with all the ingredients, use Google to track down some unreliable recipe, make a mess of the kitchen, and create a subpar slaw. This year I decided to take [...]
The local corn is rolling in. Our markets are inundated and the ears are going for 10 for $1.00. The corn is so fresh that is just barely needs to be cooked to be enjoyed. Usually, we simply husk and steam the ears. I must admit that I began to second guess myself as I [...]
