Sesame & Poppy Seed Spinach, Strawberry & Goat Cheese Salad The other night Bill asked for a strawberry and spinach salad with Feta cheese. I actually had forgotten to take some of the cow’s milk feta out of the freezer the night before and only had goat cheese thawed out on hand in the fridge, […]
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Creamy Cucumbers
I grew up on a ten-acre hobby farm and we always had a garden. We ate cucumbers fresh and also made canned pickles. Bill’s Aunt Susan taught me how to make refrigerator pickles that are sweet; but I could eat them simply with a little salt. I love cucumbers. Growing up I’m not sure that […]
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This has been the most requested salad of the summer! Everyone seems to love it. I almost always have everything that goes in it on hand in my fridge, freezer and pantry, so it is a “go to” often! I’ve prepared it for graduation parties, Sunday dinners with the family, friends pig roasts’, weddings and […]
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I’m often inspired to prepare dishes based on something I’ve seen others make, or from something we’ve ordered out to eat. More often it’s a dish I’ve seen prepared on television because I’m hooked on the Food Network channels. Recently during a segment on the morning “Today Show” Giada de Laurentiis was talking about a […]
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Quinoa Salad with Sugar Snap Peas The nice thing about Costco is that they have such great produce at a value. The downfall, is that you have to come up with dishes to use up all the fresh veggies before they spoil! I’m still on my Quinoa kick, so I created this dish based mostly […]
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