Posts Tagged by salad
Recipe a Day for May: Firecracker Salad
| May 17, 2012 | Posted by Sarah under Cooking, Recipes |
Have you ever had a radish? They are great in salads! They have a unique spice… a crispy kick, if you will. I typically see a sliver of radish in run of the mill garden salads. Boring! That’s not using the radish to its full potential. Here’s a salad recipe where radishes shine! Firecracker Salad… continue reading
Recipe a Day for May: Blueberry and Blue Cheese Salad
| May 4, 2012 | Posted by Sarah under Cooking, Recipes |
This recipe contains something that I love and something that I hate. The love would, of course, be blueberries. They are by far my favorite fruit. The world needs more blueberries. The thing I hate would be blue cheese. Yuck. But I know that most people actually enjoy the stinky stuff, so here ya go… continue reading
How Do You Like Your Potato Salad?
| June 29, 2011 | Posted by Melissa under Cooking, Produce, Recipes |
As the 4th of July and all of the accompanying celebrations approach, it made me think about potato salad. To me potato salad is one of those things like meatloaf, where you grow up loving it made a certain way. It doesn’t mean that other ways of making it are wrong or not delicious, though!… continue reading
What’s in Season – Florida Cantaloupe
| June 2, 2011 | Posted by admin under Cooking, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, Produce, Recipes |
Florida cantaloupe is harvested primarily from March through July, and is grown down the middle of the state and in the Panhandle. The orange flesh of a cantaloupe has a perfumey fragrance and a sweet taste. It’s texture is firm enough to hold it’s own in salads and other dishes, but is also easy to… continue reading
What’s In Season This Week?
| March 16, 2011 | Posted by admin under Healthy Eating, Produce, Recipes, Seafood |
Wondering what Florida commodities are in season this week? Here’s what is growing right now. Fruits and Vegetables Avocados Beans (Snap) Broccoli Cabbage Cabbage (Chinese) Celery Eggplant Endive/Escarole Grapefruit Lettuce Oranges Peppers (both Bell and Hot) Potatoes Radishes Squash (Yellow) Strawberries Sweet Corn Tangerines Tomatoes Seafood Alligator Clams Crab (both Blue and Stone) Flounder Lobster (Spiny) Mahi Mahi Oysters Shrimp Snapper (Yellowtail) Swordfish Tuna… continue reading
Three Bean Salad with Fresh Florida Snap Beans
| September 24, 2009 | Posted by admin under Cooking, Healthy Eating, Produce, Recipes |
Sterling’s post on Florida snap beans made me want to share this awesome recipe for Three Bean Salad that I’ve made. It’s a tasty, healthy side dish that has a really, really good dressing. The original recipe is here but I switched some things up to make it even better (in my opinion anyway). Sarah’s… continue reading
The art of salad
| July 21, 2009 | Posted by admin under Cooking, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, Produce |
When we think of salad, what most often comes to mind is bright green lettuce, crispy raw veggies and a tasty dressing. To me there is not much better in summertime. Garden salads tend to be as unique as the person eating them. There seems to be no limit in what flavor combinations and textures can be used.… continue reading
