Loading tweets...Rejoice! It’s salad season! The lettuce is growing wonderfully in the garden (I break off a few leaves at a time of the ones that aren’t nibbled at, just what I need for that day). The tomatoes are growing nicely and will yield up their sweet fruit before too long. This year I didn’t plant cucumber because, while they were sweet to eat, they were kind of prickly — funny, huh? I went with the eggplant instead. Last year I also planted sweet green peppers, which I also didn’t plant again this year (they had a kick to them that was delicious). But all of these wonderful salad ingredients can be found in abundance (and locally grown) from my supermarket. Only the tomatoes from the supermarket can’t compare to what I grow in the garden, so I continue to grow those at home.
I love summer salads. But you’ve got to have an interesting dressing to keep your taste buds from getting bored. I also have different things which I put into my salad for different flavors — artichoke hearts, marinated mushrooms, or hearts of palm for a non-sweet salad; apples and dried cranberries for a sweet one.
What are your favorite salad toppings?
Peanut-Tahini Salad Dressing
- 1/8 cup rice vinegar
- ½ tsp salt
- Dash black pepper
- 2 tsp tahini
- 2 heaping tsp creamy peanut butter
- 1 Tbs sesame seeds
- ¼ cup sesame oil
- ¼-1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 small garlic clove (about ½ tsp)
Mix everything in a mini blender for a delicious salad dressing.
With this salad dress, I make a sweet salad with apples and dried cranberries in addition to the regular salad stuff (lettuce, cucumber & green pepper)
6 comments
Alix Rickloff
February 16, 2012 at 8:49 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Merry,
Congrats on getting the fooding blog up and running. And thanks for the recipe! I can see I’ll be stopping here often when I’m stuck in my what-to-make-for-dinner rut.
Gail Barrett
February 16, 2012 at 8:58 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I love the sign! I wonder which dictionary they used?
Merry
February 16, 2012 at 9:14 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
They probably came up with it off the top of their heads — I mean, it does make sense. If you call a place where you can lodge, lodging, why not a place where you get food, fooding?
Gail Barrett
February 16, 2012 at 9:46 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
We have an old mah jong sent my parents bought in China about 30 years ago. The instructions are in English…sort of. We have spent many perplexing hours trying to decipher them.
Merry
February 16, 2012 at 10:30 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Chinese translations are the worst! And sometimes very funny. But that’s one good thing about India, most people speak at least some English (or a version of it, anyway).
Linda
May 4, 2012 at 9:02 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Great recipes. Hubby and I try to eat vegetarian at least 2-3 days a week, and naturally center on healthy foods. As a result, my youngest son Nick is now hooked on Indian food. I’m making a Mexican black bean & chicken caserole tonight for dinner, but really must try each of your recipes on the family. They look scrumptious … and I’m really into lentils, which are very tasty.