Working folks gotta' eat lunch.
Making a salad like this one is easy and you can make enough to last the week. When I baked the chicken legs for my Chicken Noodle Soup last night I threw in a couple extra to make this salad.
This simple dish is made with chicken leg meat, mayonnaise, red onion, scallion, cashews, dried cranberries, thyme, a squeeze of lime juice, salt and pepper.
This dish tastes and smells amazing and it's loaded with vegetables, vitamins, minerals, water and carbohydrates to rejuvinate a tired body. I served this last night with a sourdough baguette, and slices of cheddar cheese.
This dish is easy, delicious and filling. It's packed full of veggies and robust flavors, and goes perfectly with a glass of full bodied, dry red wine.
I cut the eggplant into thin slices, and coat each slice with seasoned flour. It's then pan fried in olive oil until it lightly browns.
My sauce is simple, and you will see it used frequently in my dishes; I use tomato, olive oil, chopped onion, chopped spinach, garlic and herbs, and cook it down until it's fragrant and thick.
The filling between layers of eggplant is a mélange of finely chopped red peppers, onions, zuchini, squash, spinach and garlic. Each layer also gets a slice of fresh mozzarella, and some crumbled parmesan. I top it off with several slices of eggplant, and bake it until it is hot and the cheese is melted. It is then topped with a heaping serving of red sauce. Bueno!
We cooked this on September 18, 2010, so it was technically still summer. This dish was fun to make and absolutely wonderful to eat. We made fresh pasta with my hand crank pasta maker, and cut the raviolis from the sheets of pasta. The salmon was seasoned with garlic, herbs, salt, pepper and olive oil, and then baked. Our sauce is always homemade; slow cooked tomato, olive oil, cabernet, scallion, garlic, fresh basil and herbs, and salt and pepper, I added mushrooms at end. We stuffed the raviolis with salmon, basil, spinach and cream and parmesan cheeses. Enjoy the pictures!
It's the dead of winter and summer seems so far away. I'm posting some summer dishes to tide myself over until my photos from last night arrive (I had someone over to take pictures while I cooked, I can't wait to see them!). This is a grilled tuna steak with a spicy mango-pepper glaze and caramelized onions over Herb Salad.
Seasoned eggs, fried and topped with veggies and smoked gouda. Served with bagels and cream cheese.
