If you’ve never made easy homemade salad dressing, you’ll be surprised at how quick it is. One thing I’ve noticed in years and years of cooking all day is that sometimes the best things are the simplest. You don’t need a dozen ingredients to make the best-tasting dishes. You don’t need fancy, hard-to-find ingredients to [...]
A simple green salad is surprisingly delicious. I’ve learned a lot about food and cooking in the decade that I have been doing it professionally. First, food doesn’t have to be complicated to be delicious. In fact, sometimes simple is best. Few ingredients, but more importantly good ingredients are key. As is the case with [...]
Crispy homemade garlic croutons? Yes, please! I’m gonna be honest. I don’t have leftover bread often. Especially if it’s a good crusty homemade loaf. But strange things happen sometimes, and well, I end up with a bit of kind of stale bread. There are lots of things you can do with stale bread. French toast [...]
Kale is a tough vegetable. Almost no one I know really likes it. Since discovering the best way to eat kale awhile back, I love it. This Mediterranean kale salad is definitely a favorite of mine. It’s healthy and filling, and since it’s got protein from tuna, it’s the perfect salad to eat when you [...]
I make a lot of my own salad dressings. There are a couple of bottled ones that I like, but for the most part, I make my own. My favorite ranch dressing is one I make using fresh chives, fresh dill, and fresh parsley. It’s so good, and often I forget that most ranch dressings [...]
I went to a restaurant recently that is known for its cilantro lime sauce. It was pretty delicious, but I realized that I’ve been making something very similar for years. This is a simple blended sauce that I originally made as a salad dressing. It gets its flavor from cilantro, lime juice, garlic, and honey. [...]
A salad is only as good as the dressing, but sometimes you just need something fast — like this quick balsamic vinaigrette. I make a lot of kitchen sink salads. You know the ones — you use what you’ve got. Anything and everything goes, and so each salad is never the same. I make these when [...]
A raw zucchini salad? It doesn’t sound as tasty as fried zucchini wedges, or even roasted zucchini. The only thing that might be better is zucchini bread. But, when done right, it can be delicious, I promise. This raw zucchini salad has only a few ingredients, but it comes together quickly, is fresh tasting, and [...]
Carrot noodle salad doesn’t sound great, I know. But hear me out. In the last few months, I’ve relied on grocery delivery more than I ever thought I would. Grocery shopping has always been fun for me — I like picking out produce, browsing the aisles to see what kind of new nut butter I [...]
In an effort to eat better, one of things I’ve been trying to do is eat a salad whenever I eat pizza. Easier said than done, since most pizza shops have terrible salad. So that means I either have to make my own — c’mon — or find a place that has good salad. It’s a struggle [...]
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