Poppy Seed Dressing & Cashew Salad Recipe

Poppyseed Dressing Recipe

A family favorite, cashew cream cheese salad with poppy seed dressing is one of the first recipes I copied from my mother’s recipe card file. I took the recipe to college and made it occasionally when I was missing home. I even made it once for a work event and everyone raved about it. A [...]

Caprese Salad with Olives

Easy Caprese Salad

I should have titled this post, ‘shamelessly simple’. It’s quick to prepare and contains a powerful blend of flavors from the sweet tomatoes, creamy fresh mozzarella, salty pitted olives, torn basil leaves, salt, cracked pepper, and golden extra virgin olive oil. This may be the first time I’ve actually put the entire recipe in the [...]

Mexican Jicama-Pineapple Salad

mexican jicama pineapple salad

Today kicks off a series of much-needed Mexican recipes. Since moving to Canada, I find myself missing my former ‘south of the border’ food. And now that Mexico is two borders away, I miss it tremendously. I dusted off my sole Mexican cookbook and decided to explore a few recipes I hadn’t yet tried. This [...]

Asparagus Rice Salad Recipe

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I mentioned last week the discovery of a social networking site for foodies called Group Recipes. Within the first day of signing up on the site, I was warmly greeted by dancegypsy67 from Wisconsin. This past week or so we’ve been chatting back and forth about each others recipes. She suggested I might enjoy her [...]

Tangy Spiced Eggplant Salad (recipe)

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Native to southern India and Sri Lanka, the eggplant is closely related to the tomato and potato. Slightly bitter when raw, eggplants are known for having a slightly rich flavor when cooked. I didn’t grow up eating eggplant but thoroughly love it today. Purple foods are good for you! I’ve combined a couple different recipes [...]