There are certain food combinations that never occur to you until you begin cooking with the male of the species. Pasta with a side of potato salad is one of them. However, after a day of biking and a serious potato surplus, and a killer potato salad recipe, it seemed acceptable. I have never been a big potato salad person. Potatoes, unless they’re really nice fresh potatoes, have always tasted dull and starchy to me, and the idea of dousing…
This is why I haven’t been writing much lately: My bike of 15+ years finally bit it a couple weeks ago, and what I had hoped to be a *recovery week* after a conference and a visit in T.O. was instead a week spent madly chasing anything with wheels. As luck would have it, this was also the week that the weather finally turned nice–and *everyone* was looking for bikes. After some fairly intense Craigslist-ing, I finally found a bike…
I’m afraid I can’t take any credit for this one recipe-wise. This one came direct from my mother’s recipe files (even the addition of the radish). However, I will say that it makes a darn fine salad for 15 minutes work. I like to make it up right before bed and let it sit in the fridge overnight so the onion flavors soften and the vinegar makes the celery and broccoli a tad less crunchy. Anyways, without further ado: Broccoli…
As promised, last Sunday’s salad: Roasted Vegetable Couscous Salad with Harissa-style Dressing This one is a Delia Smith special, so it’s a little involved (lots of chopping), but believe me, it’s worth it, and is excellent as leftovers, so don’t be timid about quantities (I usually make about a metric ton, and then live on it for a week). Delia’s version involves sweating eggplants and blanching cherry tomatoes–I do no such thing. I just chop, roast and assemble. Servngs: Delia…
Sunday evenings in our house tend to end up in a mad cooking frenzy–a desperate effort to get the fridge stocked with lunch and leftovers before the chao of the week descends upon us. Lately, I’ve gotten into the habit of making a giant bowl of salad of some sort, which, in addition to making a quick and easily transportable lunch, gets *more* flavorful as the week wears on and the ingredients blend together. Sunday Salad This Sunday, the salad…
There are few premade items in the grocery store that still tempt me. I’m pretty much turned off by the entire frozen section these days, and am getting increasingly less enthused about the baked goods. And ever since hearing horror stories about chickens injected with salt-water solution, marinaded meat seems suspect too. Indeed, these days, the mantra has been: buy the raw ingredients, assemble it yourself. That said, there is one aisle that still tempts me: the salad bar. Not…