By Nick • January 6, 2010
When I was in college, I would have cook-offs of sorts with a good friend of mine. The only problem being that we were eating in the dining hall at the time where there was very little to actually cook. So we took our competitive spirit to the one section we had control over: Salad [...]
Posted in appetizers, Easy Stuff, good food, healthy, salad | Tagged appetizers, hot sauce, house salad, salad, salad dressing, tarragon vinegar, vinaigrette dressing
By Nick • August 12, 2009
If you didn’t know, August is officially peach month. That means there is no better time than the present to eat some delicious ripe peaches. Now I love a good peach pie or cobbler, but when a coworker told me about a delicious peach salad, I had to give it a try.
For this peach salad [...]
Posted in appetizers, chicken, Easy Stuff, healthy, salad | Tagged chicken, Dinner, dressing, goat cheese, greens, healthy, molasses, mustard, peaches, pecans, salad, shallots, vinaigrette
By Nick • June 29, 2009
A few weeks ago Jeff (my roommate while Betsy is in Atlanta) introduced me to one of his favorite salads. While broccoli salad may not sound too amazing, there are some really interesting flavors going on this salad. Roasted red peppers, olives, and feta give it kind of a Mediterranean feel. It also happens that [...]
Posted in Dinner, Easy Stuff, Economical, salad, Side dishes | Tagged broccoli, feta, healthy, how to roast red peppers, olive oil, olives, onions, red peppers, roasted red peppers, salad
By Nick • May 25, 2009
This summer I’m living with an old friend from college, Jeff, while Betsy is doing an internship in Atlanta. I’ve lived with Jeff before and we both love to cook and eat so it should work out just dandy. One thing about Jeff is that he is a vegetarian and I actually like that because [...]
Posted in Easy Stuff, Economical, healthy, salad, Side dishes | Tagged beans, black-eyed peas, dips, garlic, jalepeno, parsley, peppers, salad, vinaigrette
By Nick • May 20, 2009
Over the summer I’m planning on spending a lot of time on simple healthy salads and dishes because it’s super hot in DC and I don’t like to eat a lot of heavy crap while I’m sweating up a storm. But before Betsy and I left for our vacation, I was basically just working to [...]
Posted in breakfast, salad | Tagged bacon, blue cheese, eggs, potatoes, salad, tomato, vinaigrette
By Nick • May 11, 2009
After I reviewed the Zuni Cafe Cookbook, the general consensus was that if I were to only make a single meal from this book (ya right), it had to be the roasted chicken and bread salad. This recipe looks intimidating when you first check it out. I mean, it spans almost five full pages in [...]
Posted in chicken, Dinner, good food, Learning to Cook, salad | Tagged bread, chicken, currants, garlic, good food, olive oil, roasted, salad, scallions, Zuni
