This recipe for Italian Tuna and Green Bean Salad is incredibly simple to make. It only has 7 basic ingredients and makes a tasty and healthy meal! In my previous post, I talked about how salmon used to be the only fish I disliked, but in hindsight that wasn’t exactly true. There was another fish…
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Eggplant Caponata
Eggplant Caponata is a classic Sicilian dish made with eggplant, olives, tomatoes, celery and lots of other flavorful ingredients. It’s a cooked salad or relish with a sweet and sour flavor, known as “agrodolce” in Italian. My garden is exploding with eggplant right now, which is funny, because it’s just about the only thing it’s…
Raw Corn + Nectarine Salad
This recipe for Raw Corn + Nectarine Salad is dead simple to make, but packed with sweet summer flavor. Think you can’t eat corn raw? When it’s exceptionally fresh and in-season, there’s no better way to enjoy it. Where do you live? Do they have great corn there? The answer is probably yes.
Lyonnaise Salad
This classic recipe for Lyonnaise Salad is an easy and delicious salad that’s filling enough to have as a meal. This post has been sponsored by Eggland’s Best. All opinions are my own. I’ve always been a sucker for the classics. There’s something deeply comforting about a dish that’s been in rotation longer than I’ve…
Heirloom Tomato Salad with Blue Cheese and Fried Shallots
Ripe heirloom tomatoes, creamy blue cheese, sweet + tangy sherry vinaigrette, and crispy fried shallots. This is the best heirloom tomato salad ever! THIS is the tomato salad that beats all other tomato salads in a battle. Fact. No other tomato salad even comes close. You can keep your Caprese. This is the one I dream about all…
Cucumber Melon Salad with Feta and Mint
This incredibly refreshing Cucumber Melon Salad with Feta + Mint is loaded with crisp cucumber, sweet summer cantaloupe, and salty chards of feta cheese. Simplicity at it’s best! This simple melon and cucumber salad is hands down my favorite dish of the summer. It’s crisp and sweet and juicy and salty and I just can’t seem…
Celery Root + Pear Salad with Walnuts + Manchego (Video!)
This simple winter salad of celery root, pears, walnuts and manchego cheese is crisp, refreshing, and full of cold weather flavors. Late winter / early spring – aka, right now – is the absolute worst when it comes to fresh vegetables. Just about everything local is out of season and the produce department has become dull and…
Brussels Sprout, Kale + Apple Salad with Sharp Cheddar, Bacon + Pecans
This Brussels Sprout, Kale + Apple Salad is loaded with raw, nutrient-packed veggies as well as a few indulgences. It’s on my Thanksgiving table every single year! This salad, or at least a variation of it, has been a solid staple of mine for the past few years. I’ve made it several times for Thanksgiving,…
Grilled Romaine Wedge Salads with Blue Cheese Vinaigrette (Video!)
This take on the classic steakhouse wedge salad uses romaine instead of iceberg, is grilled for more flavor, loaded with crispy bacon and juicy tomatoes, plus it’s lighter thanks to a blue cheese vinaigrette! Hello! Did you miss me this week? Did you even notice I skipped my usual Tuesday post? When I set out…
Warm Potato Salad with Bacon + Long Hots
This Warm Potato Salad with Bacon + Long Hots is my favorite potato salad recipe ever! It has no mayonnaise and tons of flavor from crispy bacon, spicy long hots, sour cream and chives. This potato salad has become an absolute summertime staple amongst my little group of island dwelling friends. If there’s a barbecue…