Simple Food. Good Ideas. Great Fun.
This super simple mixture of cucumbers and onions is a refreshing and delicious dish. My mother and grandmothers would often serve it from as soon as the cucumbers ripened in the summer through the early fall. Today, I often make it using the “hot house” or “hydroponic” cucumbers available in supermarket all year round. In […]
This salad can be made well in advance of serving and tastes great! The combination of Parmesan cheese and romaine lettuce make it reminiscent of a Caesar salad. It is wonderful for when you have guests, cook a meal for a crowd, pot luck, or just a nightly dinner. If your concerned that some of […]
In my continuing effort to save money and still feed my family well, I bought a lot of cabbage while it was on sale. I started by making my standard dishes of cooked cabbage with bacon and coleslaw. I decided to make another favorite, cabbage salad. It is almost a cross between the cooked cabbage […]
One of the family traditions that my mother carried on for my father was to serve her mother-in-law’s black cherry Jello salad at Christmas. It is one of the dishes that I make for my family at Christmas as well. It can easily be served as a dessert despite being called a salad, especially when […]
This is one of my mother-in-law’s recipes that she was given by another teacher some years ago. She usually serves it for large family gatherings and none of it is leftover. My husband actually made it for a gathering at our house over the weekend. As I am not a much of a fan of […]
One of my favorite dishes for potlucks, holiday dinners, or, well…anytime is broccoli salad. It is versatile, colorful, delicious, and not complicated to make. Although I usually buy broccoli by the bunches to make the salad, I found a great deal of pre-cut broccoli florets that were fresh. Despite my trimming many of the florets […]
There have been very few holiday meals in my life that have not included my mom’s cranberry salad. In fact, I was surprised to discover on my first Thanksgiving with my in-laws that not everyone made cranberry salad as part of all of their holiday celebrations and ate the stuff out of a can instead. […]
Wilted lettuce salad used to be something that I would only have in the spring, early summer or early fall when I could harvest the leaf lettuce from our garden. However, today I can buy great leaf lettuce almost year round at a hydroponic grower in our region making wilted lettuce salad a year-round treat. […]
I blame my mom. Yes, you read it correctly…I blame my mom. What for you ask? My dislike of almost every potato salad made, except those using her recipe. I am just thankful that she taught us how to make it and actually shared the recipe for her potato salad dressing with several family and […]
A wonderful side dish for any cookout, picnic, or barbecue (or any meal if you like it as much as I do) is pasta salad. It is an easy, versatile dish that can be made well in advance. You can use your favorite type of pasta and vegetables to make it the way you like […]
