a great technique

I had wanted to share with you a great technique for creating a beautiful presentation for salads.

With a vegetable peeler, shave long slices of English cucumbers. Be sure to get the entire width of the cucumber so there is peel on both sides. From a single cucumber, you should be able to get a dozen or more slices – so you have plenty to practice with enough leftover to still serve to your guests.

Line the inside of a ring mold with the cucumber. Make sure the ends overlaps by at least one inch. The cucumber has enough moisture that it will hold its shape when unmolded. With the cucumber still in the ring, fill the inside of the cucumber ring with dressed mesclun greens. Be sure to tuck any ends into the cucumber, letting only the leafy greens poke out. You can fill it pretty tight. To remove the ring, gently hold the cucumber in place and pull the ring off.

This salad was served with seared foie gras and paired with a 1986 Chateau Climens Sauternes.

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Sugar Snap Peas with Sesame

Don’t tell me you can’t do this.  S-I-M-P-L-E.

Three ingredients.
Sugar Snap Peas (good with snow peas too — or even green beans)
Toasted Sesame Oil
Sea Salt

Snap peas have “strings” that run up both sides of the pod.  Not always, but usually.  Grab your paring knife and cut and pull the tip up and across one side, then from the other end, do the other side.  Sometimes you get a string, sometimes you don’t.  Try with each pod.

Steam to your desired crispness (usually only 2 minutes or so, test for crispness).  Drain, flush with cold water and let them sit in the colander to drip  dry a bit.

Toss with toasted sesame oil, sea salt and garnish with black sesame seeds.  Viola!





These make great snackin’ food or toss them on a salad.  I promise you, they won’t last long.


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My Favorite Homemade Salad Dressing

Condiments – salad dressings included – are one of those sneaky food groups (yes I just called them a food group) where if you aren’t a careful label-checker, you can end up with a lot of fake and undesirable ingredients. To help you avoid that, I give you this…

Ingredients (serves 6)

• 3 tbsp nutritional yeast
• 2 tbsp liquid aminos (or soy sauce)
• 2 tbsp grapeseed oil
• 1.5 tbsp coarse grain mustard
• 4 tbsp water
• salt (if needed)

Instructions

1. Combine the yeast, mustard, liquid aminos, grapeseed oil, and water in a small bowl or jar. Make sure you use the potent whole grain mustard – that stuff packs a punch!
2. Once you have it in a jar or small container, make sure your lid is very secure…
3. And then SHAKE! Put some muscle into it.
4. Salt to taste if needed (but not likely), and then drizzle over your favorite salad fixings!

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Spinach Salad

Ingredients (2 servings)

For the dressing

• 1 tablespoon white miso paste
• 1 tablespoon mirin (cooking wine)
• 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1/2 teaspoon coarse ground mustard

For the salad

• Spinach leaves
• 1 Granny Smith apple
• 1/4 cup dry roasted peanuts

Instructions

1. Whisk all ingredients together. Drizzle over salad, and serve!

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fruit salad in coconut

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Fruit salad with minted sugar

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Yummy Fruit Salad

Ingredients:

• 1 cup cantaloupe, cubed
• 12 blackberries
• 12 strawberries, quartered
• ½ small apple, diced
• 1 tsp honey
• 1 wedge cinnamon cream laughing cow cheese
• 2 tbsp fat free whipped topping

Directions: Combine fruit in a bowl. Drizzle honey over fruit. Top with cream cheese wedge and whipped topping. I smeared each piece of fruit in the cheese and whipped topping as I ate .


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