Vegetables

Summertime Salads

August 12, 2010

Summertime is the perfect time for salads. We eat them as main dishes and side dishes. We enjoy vegetable salads and pasta salads. Here are a few of our favorites. Tomato Salad Tomato Pasta Salad Creamy Fruit Salad Greek Pasta Salad Here is a dessert salad for you. Snickers Apple Salad ( My kids are going [...]

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Gazpacho

August 2, 2010

Gazpacho is a refreshing soup for summertime. It is served cold, so it is perfect for hot summer days. It uses items that are readily available during the summer months and not only that it is packed full of vegetables so it is a healthy meal to serve. I have tried several different Gazpacho recipes [...]

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Fresh Tomato Salsa

July 28, 2010

This time of year is the perfect time to use fresh tomatoes. Fresh from the garden tomatoes are one of my family’s favorite summertime food. Right now tomatoes are in peak season in most parts of the country. Even if you do not grow your own tomatoes, you can easily find them at the farmers [...]

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Refrigerator Pickles

July 13, 2010

Refrigerator pickles, bread and butter cucumbers, bread and butter pickles, refrigerator cucumbers, there are many names for this dish. This basic cucumber recipe has been around for years and there are many variations. My parents made a version of these all the time during the summer when I was growing up. We grew cucumbers in the [...]

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Grilled Bacon Wrapped Corn On Cob

June 29, 2010

Fresh corn on the cob is one of my favorite summertime dishes. I have loved it since I was a kid. We always grew corn in the garden when I was growing up, and my sisters and I looked forward to it every year. My mom always just boiled the corn to cook it. This [...]

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Julia Child’s Vinaigrette Salad Dressing

June 17, 2010

So often people assume that Julia Child’s recipes are fancy and complicated, but I have found that many of them are just basic recipes for homemade food. This vinaigrette type salad dressing of Julia Child’s is an example of that. It is a simple homemade salad dressing. It contains just a few ingredients that most [...]

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Restaurant Style Coleslaw

June 14, 2010

My sister recently called me asking for my coleslaw recipe. I told her it was on my site, but she could not find it. Well, it turns out it was not on my site, which I could not believe.This dish makes a regular appearance at our house, and yet I have never put it on [...]

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Seasoned Crispy Fries

March 29, 2010

I have a new favorite way to cook by oven roasted french fries. Instead of using salt, I use my homemade Emeril’s Seasoning Mix, and it is so good. It takes my simple oven fries, and gives them a whole new taste.

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Corn Pudding

March 11, 2010

Corn pudding was not something we ate growing up. I think it is one of those southern or regional type foods. I don’t think I had ever heard of it until moving to Oklahoma. I recently made it for the first time and my family loved it. We had eaten it before when a friend made [...]