Vegetables

Strawberry Pear Salad

March 8, 2013

This is my family’s very favorite salad of late. Not only is it delicious and beautiful, it’s really easy too. It’s kind of a riff on the Mandarin Spinach salad I shared with you a little while back, as it uses the same dressing. To make the dressing, you just shake the ingredients in a [...]

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Easy, Ridiculously Good Roasted Carrots

December 18, 2012

I’ll give you once chance to guess where I got this recipe. I know.  That wasn’t even a challenge, was it? Cook’s Illustrated, of course, is the source. (duh.) I’ve been trying to add some variety to our vegetable dishes, since the whole steam-and-then-add-butter-salt-and-pepper thing gets awfully boring after a while.   And raw veggies are [...]

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Sauteed Green Beans with Garlic and Herbs

March 7, 2012

We’ve been eating green beans around here for a long time…the steamed sort, topped with butter, salt, and freshly-ground black pepper. They’re good, but nothing extraordinary. Just a standard veggie side-dish. I’ve been looking for ways to spice up my vegetable preparation, though, so I flipped through my Cook’s Illustrated Cookbook and happened across this [...]

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Mandarin Spinach Salad with Sugared Almonds

February 28, 2012

I got this easy recipe from a church friend, and I think it’s delicious, so of course I want to share it with you. You should so throw together a bowl of it. Like most salads, it’s quite customizable.  You can use whatever greens you have a hankering for, you can use strawberries or some [...]

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