Recipe Book
Salads
|
Servings: 4
Complexity: Easy
Total Time: 15 minutes
A light and refreshing salad or side dish.
|
|
|
Servings: 8
Complexity: Very Easy
Total Time:
From Kathie Dever's June 1997 Fallsmead Forum Cooking and Entertaining Column: The next time you 're invited to bring something for an outside supper, try this salad. This food category is the one that usually gets short shrift - few have really good salad recipes so you usually end up with a surfeit of brownies (not too terrible a situation to Mark Dever). So if you show up with this, I guarantee you'll be a hero.
|
|
|
Servings: Group
Complexity: Easy
Total Time:
From Kathie Dever's September 1997 Fallsmead Forum Cooking and Entertaining Column: If you enjoyed my salads at the Fourth of July celebration in the park, you may be one of the many folks who asked for the recipe for one of the dressings. Many of our clients are "addicted" to it - two of them order it every month! We make big batches and
keep small containers of it in our freezer as it keeps, frozen, just beautifully. I have thought that it would make a really nice hostess or Christmas gift. Its flavor is so intensely fruity that we only serve it on very simple but absolutely elegant salads - just good greens, berries and toasted walnuts or pine nuts. (Martha Stewart, eat your heart out!) You may be tempted to use commercial raspberry vinegar rather than make it from scratch. If you do, good luck - you are going to have to taste and adjust for sweetness. My raspberry vinegar is a wonderful condiment to have on hand and would also make a lovely gift. The recipe is from a cookbook that my mother brought me from Australia, of all places. It is wonderful poured over ice with sparkling water or in marinades or glazes for baked or grilled chicken. Stored in a cool dark place it will keep indefinitely. |
|
|
Servings: N/A
Complexity: Easy
Total Time:
From Kathie Dever's September 1994 Fallsmead Forum Cooking and Entertaining Column: This salad is a delight to both eye and palate and is a very elegant addition to any meal. Use it when you are planning a complicated menu, because it is so easy to put together, or when you want a lot of effect for very little effort.
|
|
|
Servings: N/A
Complexity: Very Easy
Total Time:
From Kathie Dever's April 1993 Fallsmead Forum Cooking and Entertaining Column: Poultry and tarragon have a real affinity for each other, so if yours is one of the families increasing its consumption of chicken and turkey, you'll enjoy having this herb in your garden. Try this recipe for a truly outstanding salad.
|
|
|
Servings: N/A
Complexity: Very Easy
Total Time:
From Kathie Dever's December 1991 Fallsmead Forum Cooking and Entertaining Column: Ever notice that whenever you are invited to a potluck, the salad category is almost always the last one to fill up? There is a reason for it -- many people view salads as boring, but, you know what, no meal is really complete without one. Take it from one who makes her living observing and capitalizing on what
people eat - people EAT salad. Whether it is because of low-fat, or cholesterol-watching, or California style eating, salads are becoming more important in our menus than ever before.Salads are even main dishes (my Marine father would never have believed this !). Ingredients - start with the freshest greens, add raw or cooked vegetables, croutons, nuts, bacon bits or cheese in whatever proportion pleases you. Salads are a good way to clean out the refrigerator of bits of things. Now, go make you own dressing, yes, I insist! You are not going to ruin that masterpiece with something out of bottle (ever check out the ingredients?) And besides, it is so easy you have no excuse not to try. |
|
|
Servings: 4
Complexity: Easy
Total Time:
From Kathie Dever's June 1997 Fallsmead Forum Cooking and Entertaining Column: The next time you 're invited to bring something for an outside supper, try this salad. This food category is the one that usually gets short shrift - few have really good salad recipes so you usually end up with a surfeit of brownies (not too terrible a situation to Mark Dever). So if you show up with this, I guarantee you'll be a hero.
|