In today’s edition of food blogging foods that oughtn’t be food blogged, we have a spinach salad and cheese pretzel from Esther’s German Bakery. Wait, though. We have spinach, tomatoes, yellow pepper, and some roasted potatoes from last week. I’m both proud and slightly embarrassed to share that for salad dressing, I used the leftover […]
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Soba salad with soy-ginger dressing
Longtime (hah) readers (hi, Mom) will note that this “salad” is very, very similar to the spring roll salad I posted in September. And, yes. I love a salad that has noodles and a soy saucey dressing. Yum. Soba Salad with Soy-ginger Dressing Inspired by Smitten Kitchen 1 small serving soba noodles 1 or 2 playing-card […]
Spring roll salad
In my continuing quest to identify salads that are acceptable as entire meals, I’ve started adding lots of non-salad ingredients, like handfuls of rice noodles and omelets. Because nobody wants to eat only leaves, you guys. But for real, this salad tastes like a spring roll without the fuss of actually rolling up spring rolls. […]
Kale salad with miso sesame dressing
Sometimes I get really stuck on certain foods and will eat them for every meal for days, possibly weeks. This flies in the face of my usual reluctance to eat leftovers, but, well, at least it makes things easier. This time, as a grand stroke of irony, it’s kale salad. I know. This is probably […]
Ottolenghi’s gado gado, highly revised
I like salad, I just don’t like it as a whole meal. With a build and appetite that would be kindly called “robust,” I’d have to eat a shocking number of raw leaves to feel satisfied. My “no salad as a meal” rule has a few notable exceptions: salads served in deep-fried taco shells, salads […]