A rule of thumb—better yet—a summer desire, is to keep ones cooking simple as no one wants to spend a lot of time in a hot kitchen. Grilling is the solution, but so is simple summer vegetable salads. In fact, you could make an entire meal of nothing but a variety of salads. In Arab […]
Beautiful Broccoli Salads for Your Summer Grill Party
August 11, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Summer is a time for grilling and one dilemma the cook faces is what side dishes are to be served. Because grilling usually requires our attention it’s nice to have already prepared side dishes. One of my favorite choices are vegetable salads that can be prepared ahead of time and served at room temperature. Broccoli […]
4 Quick Tricks Banish Boring Summer Salads
July 28, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The grill is blasting away, people are licking their chops, and you’re asking yourself, “what sides?” A great approach is a salad, of course. But why stop at merely one salad? And too often that salad is one of the heavy mayonnaise-based standbys, macaroni salad or potato salad. An approach I love is four salads, […]
Colorful Summer Salads Make the Most of Heirlooms
August 25, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Think of the platter as a palette, and your vegetables as swaths of paint that fill in the color of the canvas. This is what every August provides as our tomato plants and other garden vegetables are going crazy and this means we should be thinking colorful salads. This is both an appetizing and beautiful […]
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