Roasted sugar snap and shallot salad.
Here’s a fresh new take on salad, which skips the lettuce and instead focuses on a few vegetables, both raw and cooked, in a simple dressing.
Category: Herbs
Farro risotto with summer corn.
We love LOVE risotto. Love making it, love eating it. Risotto has reputation of being kind of a pain in the tuchus to make, what with all the constant stirring. It takes awhile to bubble and …
Summery basil-chevre appetizer.
I love this recipe for basil leaves stuffed with goat cheese and topped with fresh tomato. It’s a fun, finger-food variation on the caprese salad, and it just screams summer. basil leaves stuffed with goat cheese …
Basil lemon cocktail.
Hooray! We’re on STAYcation this week! Which means we’re enjoying a different cocktail every night [yep, that’s right: cocktails on a weeknight]. Rob is planning to shake up a summery lemon drop cocktail infused with basil …
Sunny day tomato dressing.
What do you get when you combine tomatoes, basil, balsamic and olive oil in a jar and let it sit in the sunshine? This perfect summer salad dressing.
Summer salad with avocado dressing and biscuit croutons.
Who’d have thought to turn day-old biscuits into croutons for a wonderful summer salad with avocado dressing? Here’s the delicious recipe!
Summery green pasta salad.
Think pasta salad is boring? (Me, too.) This fresh take on pasta salad uses summer green vegetables and a light, lemony dressing.
Cherry tomato salad with mozzarella and lemon.
No doubt you’ve had the classic tomato/mozzarella salad. But this variation adds a pop of lemon juice and it completely transforms this summer salad.
Ribbon zucchini salad.
In spite of my garden’s current zucchini problem—I think I have a pollination issue that I hope resolves as the season progresses—the farmers at our local markets are having no such troubles. Summer squash of all …
