This cottage cheese dish was served on the salad bar at a local steakhouse for over sixty years. The establishment opened in 1952, long before the Interstate system connected our country. Highway 30 connected east and west in a ribbon that strung through “Beef country.” Steakhouses dotted the landscape in […]
Broccoli slaw? In a bag? Everything is already shredded for me? It’s right in the produce section? I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I had never, ever noticed it. What a mistake! I am so happy I finally found it!! Last week, I took a little road trip to spend […]
Salad Nicoise (pronounced “nee-swaaz”) is a beautiful example of a lovely main dish salad. It uses simple, fresh, available ingredients. Don’t let the fancy-sounding name fool you. It is not a tossed salad. Instead, in Salad Nicoise, we arrange the components artfully to please the eye as well as the […]
Tonight I gussied up an old favorite recipe for an Oriental cabbage slaw. It’s been a favorite for years. So what’s been the knock on this tasty salad? The flavor is amazing but quite honestly, it always looks kinda bland and boring. The pale brownish-green color reminds me of socks […]
I hope you try this sweet corn salad recipe! Sweet corn is a wonderful gift of summer. The season is fleeting and we enjoy it to the limit. While it’s abundant we eat it nearly every night. Most of the time we eat it plain. As for me, I don’t […]