Texas Caviar
A Good Luck Dish for the New Year!
It’s not too late! Goes together in minutes. And it’s darn good! Yep, having this again this year. I love it!!
This is great just as a side salad with burgers too.
Category: Salads (Page 1 of 5)
Cucumber Salad
Straight from the garden, just picked cucumbers tossed within minutes. Nothing but garden freshness with a minimum of ingredients you most likely have in your fridge and pantry. Pure deliciousness.
Here’s my grandmother’s upscale version. She loved to serve this salad in the summer along side a perfectly cooked steak. We were a happy bunch, those summers!
Build Your own Global Salad
Chopped Salad in Any Style
Unlike a tossed salad the chop salad holds a bit of everything in every bite. Think of it this way … It’s similar to a hearty soup vs a broth. The flavors are layered and filling. The basics are similar for each salad: iceberg for crunch, romaine for earthy taste with a bit of bitter, red or green onions, bell pepper or jalapeno (optional), tomatoes (prefer Roma), cheese, and broccoli (optional). Chop each, see photos for size. (Click on picture to enlarge.) Next is adding your signature ingredients to make it your own.
Note: If you have a bag of greens mix like spring mix this works well for the lettuces, too. Chopping this is quite easy. Place the mix in a large glass, ceramic or stainless steel bowl and use two sharp knives with shorter blades, like a steak knife blade. Hold a knife in each hand. Place the blades down (perpendicular) into the mix to the bottom of the bowl. Criss cross as you cut. This goes quickly. Cut until you achieve bite size leaves.
Bean Salad
A Repost
We interrupt your regularly scheduled summer sweets for a bean salad! Before we dive into rich fudgy goodness of chocolate cake, here’s a little intermission. Enjoy this repost! Yep, a buttermilk chocolate cake is next!
Of course our eating habits are quite different from the 60’s. I’ve made a few changes to this recipe but it can even be brought closer to date by simply adding blanched green & yellow beans instead of the canned variety … Just as mom’s Layered Salad might better include baby spinach leaves or a spring lettuce combination instead of iceberg to make it more palatable for many. Those are easy fixes. But sometimes it’s just fun to “remember when” and leave the recipe as it was … Especially on Mother’s Day! OK, I have to admit 3/4 cup sugar in the dressing is way too much.
You can’t go wrong with pasta
At least this is my take! While perusing TIKTOK recipes I noted this one. Looked easy quick and cheesy perfect. When I finished cooking and took a bite I realized I had combined two recipes in error. It was good but not better than any of these.
…PASTA or any one of these dishes in the search window and see what happens!
Asiago Pasta Salad
Calabrian Macaroni
Chickpea e Fagioli
Chicken Pasta Bake
One Pan Pasta
Pasta Calabrese
Ravioli Lasagna
Salami Peas Pasta
Salmon and Pasta
Spaghetti Soup
Summer Veggies
Cold Pasta
Minestrone
Chicken Fettuccine
No Cook Topping
Recipes for those hardboiled eggs
SCOTCH EGGS
GREENS EGGS AND HAM
EGGSTRAVAGANZA
DEVILED EGGS WITH A FLAIR
Cornbread Salad
Just a great change-up salad! Goes great with jambalaya, gumbo, chili beans, pot roast and all by itself!
First, make your favorite cornbread. I prefer from scratch with a less sweet version. Mixes tend to be sweeter and more cake like. Cornbread is an easy quick bread. Try this recipe, here. For a fewer ingredient recipe try this.
London Broil Dinner
Perfect for the Holidays
When turkey no longer gets everyone’s attention try this simple but elegant meal. Portions can be done days ahead. And just think … there’s no crazy clean up! Best of all this is not a budget buster!
Days Ahead Salad
Sometimes I just crave steak! I have a long history here. Grandma Rose was a caterer and in the 60’s steak was the most requested catered dinner. Boy, could she cook a pan seared steak! There were times when it just seemed too much. Steak again! Today, of course we know more about nutrition, and steak has lost some popularity. But it still has a rich place. If you are one that just steers away from beef, chicken can be added to this salad in a pinch. If you’re busy and want a great nutritious meal ready when you get home this is the meal for you.
There are certain vegetables that keep well after they’re prepared and there lies the secret. Prepare the foods on your weekend to use for the work week. Your meats can be cooked then refrigerated and used within 3 days or can be frozen into small serving sizes … ready to pull from the freezer to use.
Tex Mex Salad
This is a taste-alike look-alike. I’ve been craving Jake’s Tex Mex salad for years now. I’ve come to conclude I just have to make it myself. For best results the ingredients need to be freshly prepared … Then just simply layer into the perfect Tex Mex Salad.
Jake’s Tex Mex Cafe is located in Bakersfield and has been pleasing many with their comfort foods for decades. It’s a cafeteria style restaurant if it hasn’t changed … providing a casual pleasantly fast service. As you approach the end of the service line there is a tempting dessert, their delicious chocolate cake. I haven’t frequented this eatery in years. So I can’t remember the tastes of this cake but I have a recipe for an equally delicious easily made chocolate cake. You won’t be disappointed.
No Fuss Chocolate Cake
