Roasted Butternut Squash Salad with Warm Cider Vinaigrette
I’ve decided after close to an hour that I don’t have much to say about this salad, except that it’s tasty, and I’ll be making it again. My backyard greens have long since frozen solid, and I’m back to...
View ArticleBrowned Butter Kale Salad with Hazelnuts and Pears
Kale salad is more in keeping with the season, yes? For those sighing heavily at the suggestion of more kale, what if I imbue it with warm browned butter? You know, instead of the oil that you’d...
View ArticleAsian Kale Slaw
I know, I need to back away from the kale. It’s so 2013. Retro, almost? Can’t. Stop. The thing about big salads is that when I make them they tend to wind up with loads of cheese, or bacon, or eggs, or...
View ArticleCharred Corn Quinoa Salad
That’s charred, as opposed to chard, which would likely also be delicious. I just made this for lunch, and wanted to share it right away. It was a spur-of-the-moment salad, made because it occurred to...
View ArticleCreamy Potato Salad with Berries and Mint
We’re back in the city, back to eating on the back porch where all the appliances and boxes and torn-out stuff isn’t, back to walking Lou on the sidewalk instead of the beach. What I miss most about...
View ArticleBang Bang Turkey
Those of you who have spent some time here (thank you!) know that I am prone to making recipes just because I love their names. (Case in point: this is really just a cake, but don’t you just want to...
View ArticleRoasted Chicken Caesar Salad
Having grown up in generation Earls, I’ve always been a fan of the chicken Caesar. Even so, it’s not the sort of thing I generally make at home. But I saw a technique years ago in which chicken was...
View ArticleKale & Butternut Salad with Ginger-Miso Dressing
I know… it’s such a cliche to be serving up kale on the first Monday of January. But I had a bundle of dinosaur (or lacinato) kale in the fridge that needed using before I head out of town. I realize...
View ArticleQuinoa, Kale, Feta & Walnut Salad
I know – it’s even more cliché to compound quinoa with kale when January is still in single digits, but having eaten my way through most of the holiday leftovers, I’m now attempting to fill my bowl...
View ArticleMaple Brussels Sprout Slaw
Who needs a healthy dose of veggies after that long weekend chocopalooza? (I do.) Something crunchy and cruciferous, to give my jaw a workout. Something to provide a nutritional ballast against all...
View ArticleFattoush Salad
The first of the locally-grown greenhouse tomatoes and cukes and romaine are here! We’ve even eaten our first asparagus stalks. In April! So crazy, this year. I know you probably don’t need a recipe...
View ArticleLemony Pasta Salad with Spinach, Feta + Salmon
Apparently it’s Labour Day weekend in a few days (HOW!), which means part of me is plotting what to bring to the parties our friends hold every year to see out the summer, and part of me is getting...
View ArticleQuinoa, Kale, Squash & Pomegranate Salad
I feel a little sheepish offering this up as a recipe – most of the time you don’t need a recipe for a salad – but I still struggle with creative salad combinations, and so here it is. It’s getting to...
View ArticleBlog Flog: Wheat Berry & Chickpea Salad with Spinach, Apples and Feta
Is it weird that I get more excited about winter salads than the summer ones? I love hardy salads that give my jaw a workout. (At least part of me is working out, right?) Every winter I vow to keep a...
View ArticleSmashed Salad
We’ve been traveling around Alberta a lot lately, discovering new places we didn’t know existed. This past weekend, we found ourselves in Elkwater, a tiny camping-cabin community in Cypress Hills...
View ArticleAsian-style Bok Choy Slaw
Thankfully in the midst of a near-daily Stampede fried food extravaganza, my fridge is full of greens. They grow so well here in Alberta at this time of year, and so that’s what my CSA box was full of...
View ArticleRoasted Cauliflower + Squash with Kale + Tahini Dressing
If I had one of those weekly menu calendars – meatloaf Mondays, taco Tuesdays, pork chop Thursdays – some version of this would be on my roster. I tend to gravitate toward it every January, when I sit...
View ArticleQuinoa, Kale, Feta & Walnut Salad
I know – it’s even more cliché to compound quinoa with kale when January is still in single digits, but having eaten my way through most of the holiday leftovers, I’m now attempting to fill my bowl...
View ArticleMaple Brussels Sprout Slaw
Who needs a healthy dose of veggies after that long weekend chocopalooza? (I do.) Something crunchy and cruciferous, to give my jaw a workout. Something to provide a nutritional ballast against all...
View ArticleFattoush Salad
The first of the locally-grown greenhouse tomatoes and cukes and romaine are here! We’ve even eaten our first asparagus stalks. In April! So crazy, this year. I know you probably don’t need a recipe...
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