I picked up a used copy of VERDURA: Vegetables Italian Style by Viana La Place after reading multiple posts on Chowhound about how great the recipes are. I’m quite glad I did. I’ve mostly been making the salads but there are lots of pastas, soups, antipasti and even main dish recipes as well. This Russian…
Side Dishes
Spinach, Avocado and Mango Salad
Shopping at Costco when you’re hungry and have a veg and fruit loving daughter with you can be dangerous! We have lots of produce to eat up. When I made the beef spiedini the other night, I also made a large salad with spinach, avocado, mango and red onion. We completely polished it off and…
Corn and Black-Eyed Pea Salad from A Gracious Plenty
You could make this Corn and Black-Eyed Pea Salad with almost any canned bean I think. I like black-eyed peas but sometimes they can be tricky to find where I live. What’s good is all the crunch of the vegetables with the dressing. Play around as needed! The recipe is from A Gracious Plenty. I…
Cornbread Salad from A Gracious Plenty
I saw this Cornbread Salad in A Gracious Plenty, a cookbook I read about on the Chowhound home cooking board. (Warning: This board can do serious damage to your cookbook budget!) Even though it didn’t win the “cookbook of the month” (where everyone cooks and reviews recipes from the same cookbook), I wanted it. The…
Lidia’s Zucchini and Rice Tart
My niece is coming for dinner tonight and I thought it would be fun to have something to nibble on while I’m fixing dinner. I saw this zucchini and rice tart and thought it sounded good and would taste fine the next day so I made it last night. I roughly halved the original recipe…