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Tips on how to save time cooking and lots more delicious and healthy recipes can be found in Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify & Energize Your Life. Your Home & Your Planet.

 Cucumber and Yogurt Salad
1 cup Greek style yogurt
2 small or 1 large cucumber, peeled, seeded and diced
Salt and pepper
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 t mint, chopped
2 t dill, chopped
2-3 t white wine vinegar
1 T olive oil
Greens like baby spinach, watercress, arugula, chopped

Place cucumbers in a colander, sprinkle with salt and let sit for 30 minutes. Squeeze cucumbers and blot with a towel. Combine all ingredients except greens. Toss greens into mixture

Blackened Fried Tofu with Salad and Bread
Blackened spices (Under Caesar Salad)
Tofu, cubed; 1/4 pound per person
Peanut oil, preferable Lorivar, roasted

Coat tofu in blackened spices and fry in a cast iron pan, medium high heat. Serve with salad and bread. 

Soy Dressing
3 parts olive oil
1 part rice vinegar
1 part soy sauce
Pepper
Whisk ingredients together. Adjust to taste.

Arugula and Frisee with Pecorino Romano, Bacon and Toasted Pecans

I made this salad the other night as a main course and ate it with hot, crusty bread. Delicious! Omit bacon and serve as a side dish.  I eat only nitrate-free, free range bacon. For this dish, I used bacon from our local farm, Hemlock Hills Farm.. It is the best bacon I have ever eaten!
Organic baby arugula
Organic frisee
6 slices cooked bacon, broken into small pieces
Handful toasted pecans or walnuts, broken into pieces
Handful pecorino romano or parmesan cheese
Walnut oil vinaigrette, see below

Combine all ingredients but cheese, then add cheese.

Walnut Oil Vinaigrette
2 tablespoons red or sherry vinegar
1 shallot, minced
Salt & pepper
1 teaspoon dijon mustard
6 tablespoons roasted walnut oil

Combine all ingredients and whisk until thick. Adjust oil or vinegar as needed.

Basic Vinaigrette 

1 cup olive oil (mix with canola if desired)
1/3 cup cider, balsamic, red or white vinegar
Salt & Pepper
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 

Add more pizzazz by adding some or all of the following:

Capers
Anchovy paste
Hot sauce
Fresh herbs: parsley, rosemary, dill, cilantro
Garlic, pressed
Crumbled bleu cheese on the side

Caesar Dressing

Because of the dangers of raw eggs, I hard-boil mine and chop into dressing. This will make a couple cups of dressing and will be fine in the refrigerator for weeks.

A classic Caesar salad includes romane lettuce, croutons and anchovies. I omit anchovies, but use them in dressing. I add other lettuces and celery, depending on my mood.

1 ½ olive oil/canola oil
2 T white vinegar
2 inches of anchovy paste
2 garlic pressed
3 T lemon juice + zest of one lemon
2 T Dijon mustard
2 t white pepper
½ cup parmesan cheese
2 hard-boiled eggs, chopped

Combine ingredients and whisk or blend in a blender

I made this salad the other night as a main course and ate it with hot, crusty bread. Delicious! Omit bacon and serve as a side dish.  I eat only nitrate-free, free range bacon. For this dish, I used bacon from our local farm, Hemlock Hills Farm.. It is the best bacon I have ever eaten!

Arugula and Frisee with Pecorino Romano, Bacon and Toasted Pecans
Organic baby arugula
Organic frisee
6 slices cooked bacon, broken into small pieces
Handful toasted pecans or walnuts, broken into pieces
Handful pecorino romano or parmesan cheese
Walnut oil vinaigrette, see below

Combine all ingredients but cheese, then add cheese.

Walnut Oil Vinaigrette
2 tablespoons red or sherry vinegar
1 shallot, minced
Salt & pepper
1 teaspoon dijon mustard
6 tablespoons roasted walnut oil

Combine all ingredients and whisk until thick. Adjust oil or vinegar as needed.

 

Tips on how to save time cooking and lots more delicious and healthy recipes can be found in Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify & Energize Your Life. Your Home & Your Planet.

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