Salad

Fresh Salsa Salad

June 9, 2012
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This couldn’t-be-easier salad was inspired by a now (sadly) defunct restaurant in my hometown: The Silo. My family ate many, many meals there over the years, hosted birthday parties, celebrated milestones, received sports awards and college scholarships there, all accompanied by the delicious Silo food. The Silo first opened in the 1950’s, I believe…and some […]

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After-Easter Spring Salad

April 12, 2012
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I feel like a dope every time it happens, but I periodically have to remind myself that a salad doesn’t HAVE to be lettuce-based.  About once a month, I’ll be figuring of what to make for dinner or lunch and think to myself, A salad would be nice…too bad I don’t have any lettuce.  But […]

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Corn and Edamame Salad

August 24, 2008
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I first found this recipe when I had a glut of fresh summer corn-on-the-cob and was looking for new and interesting ways to use it all up.

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Chive Buttermilk Dressing

August 16, 2008
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I’m one of those people, I admit it, that just simply don’t like bottled salad dressing. I’d much rather quickly sprinkle a salad with olive oil, vinegar, salt, pepper and maybe an herb or two than pour on some pre-made concoction. But I do have a whole bunch of dressings that I make in batches […]

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Sign of Spring

April 9, 2008
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This is one of my favorite signs of spring: a salad of freshly picked wild dandelions–mixed only with a chopped hard boiled egg, olive oil, garlic salt and freshly ground pepper. The dandelions are a bit peppery and bitter and the oil mixes with some of the egg yolk, cloaking the leaves in an almost […]

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