Archive for the 'salad' Category
Kale & Avocado Salad
January 7th, 2011by Caroline We make raw kale salad a lot, but over Christmas my sister made a version that was a revelation to me: raw, shredded kale massaged with avocado, then tossed with avocado chunks, slivered almonds and lemon juice. Yum. I ate it almost every day (an antidote to my daily handful of Christmas cookies?) [...]
Comfort Food Salad for Brunch
December 20th, 2010by Caroline As I’ve written before, I love a salad for lunch, but when it’s rainy and cold, as it’s been in the Bay Area lately, something warmer is called for. Sometimes I make roasted potato and kale salad, but the other day I didn’t have quite the time, energy or ingredients to pull it [...]
Weeknight Strategies: Salads + Spaghetti
October 5th, 2010by Lisa Like all other families with school age kids, we’re back in full swing,which means afterschool activities most days of the week, homework for the 3rd grader, and a generally full schedule from 3-6:30, which is more or less when my kids start getting ready for bed. We have an early lights out around [...]
Salad for Lunch
October 1st, 2010by Caroline One of my favorite things, among the many small things that I love about my kids being in school until 2 PM, is that I have time now to make and eat lunch at home. Last year, when my youngest was in preschool, I left the house at 11:30 AM to pick him [...]
2 Simple Salads: Green Goddess & Country Mustard Potatoes
September 28th, 2010by Lisa These salads are so simple that they hardly deserve a post, but they have become very popular in our family this summer, and since we write about all the ways that we eat here–the simple and the fancy–they are getting the attention they deserve. If you’ve followed me for any time at all, [...]
Hayes Valley Farm
September 22nd, 2010by Caroline A lifetime ago, pre-husband and pre-kids, I lived in the not-yet-gentrified Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. My top floor apartment looked out over a vacant lot which had once been shadowed by the 101 freeway off-ramp, but after the Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the road, the ramp was torn down and the [...]
Nicoise for Kids
September 21st, 2010by Lisa When I was in high school, my boyfriend and I went to Manhattan to see some show or other, but before that, we went to a classic French bistro for lunch. I suppose I ordered onion soup, and he ordered something else, and when we done ordering the server, who was an older, [...]
MultiGrain Salad with Roasted Mushrooms, Walnuts and Grapes
September 20th, 2010by Caroline The weather’s changed this week. The fog is coming with a little drizzle and the sun is sitting lower in the sky; we don’t have many autumn leaves or crisp days here in Northern California but still, it feels like fall. And so, rummaging around — in the kitchen for ingredients and online [...]
Garbage Salad
September 8th, 2010by Caroline When I was in 3rd grade, I ate lunch with my dad nearly every weekday. Although my school day went to 3 PM, the school didn’t permit children to eat lunch at school until 4th grade. I remember my mom grumbling that this was a conspiracy to keep moms from working outside the [...]
Learning to Eat: Kohlrabi
August 25th, 2010by Caroline Every summer, we visit my parents so we can glory in East Coast summer weather, grandparental (and parental) affection, and the abundance of my father’s garden. Depending on when we arrive, we might be gorging on berries or potatoes, and this year my dad promised both, but he also offered kohlrabi, a crop [...]