Category: Side Dishes

  • Russian Salad from Verdura

    Russian Salad from Verdura

    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…

  • Spinach, Avocado and Mango Salad

    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

    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

    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

    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…