I love to make a “tasty little salad” (TLS) — and often pull from what’s on hand. I don’t use recipes for these, but do follow a loose formula. Start with greens, add something rich (nuts, seeds, fish, cheese, tofu, etc) toss on flavorful additions (fruit, chopped veggies, herbs) and dress the whole thing. I…
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Broccoli Lime Salad
Broccoli Lime Salad for lunch – a fabulous mid winter dish.
Strawberry Granola
Strawberries add such a sweet happy note to any morning. I created a new granola flavor featuring strawberries and vanilla for a touch of joy in my breakfast. Using powdered freeze dried strawberries in the granola mixture allows for a rich strawberry flavor, accented by the sweet note of vanilla. Together they taste like strawberries…
Plum Sparkler
Plums are ripe and abundant on neighborhood trees. While 2020 has been a tumultuous year, it’s been fabulous for plums. Something about the weather here in California has graced the plum trees with amazing fecundity. A friend has a bumper crop of Santa Rosa plums and gifted me with a crate of ripe fruit. This…
Lemon Poppy Seed Snack Cake
My daughter left her apartment in NYC and came back to California due to the Covid-19 shut down — I’m grateful that she is safe and with me for the moment! One of the things she misses from her life on the east coast is a lemon poppy seed muffin made by a cafe next…
Yogurt Cheese
What’s a flavor cross between yogurt, chèvre and cream cheese — equally happy with savory or sweet flavors layered on top? Yogurt Cheese, of course! I recently created this simple cheese and was delighted with the results. What inspired this was a quart of amazingly lovely local Jersey yogurt left over from a big brunch….
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