Roasted Beet & Pickled Red Onion Salad

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This is a beet salad. This is not a salad which, incidentally, contains some beets. If you do not like beets, you are not going to like this salad. I say this because I find that people are rarely luke-warm on the issue of beets. One either loves them or hates them. I fall …click to continue Roasted Beet & Pickled Red Onion Salad

Artichoke and Feta Croquettes

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Lily and I love artichokes. I just love that I can eat thistles. I have also loved them since I was a child. The first time I ever found one in a restaurant was in The Ore House in Durango, Colorado, and I was pretty sure that made it the best restaurant in the …click to continue Artichoke and Feta Croquettes

Tabbouli…Tabbouleh…Tabouleh…Tabbooleh

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Tabbouli…Tabbouleh…Tabouleh…Tabbooleh

There are many spellings and many more variations on this wonderful Lebanese-Syrian-Middle Eastern-Arabic-Turkish-turned-American dish made of wheat, parsley, lemons, tomatoes, and often feta, mint, cucumbers, and onions.

I’m lucky in that my neighbor Linda is of Lebanese descent and she can help me anytime I dip my little redneck toe in to international …click to continue Tabbouli…Tabbouleh…Tabouleh…Tabbooleh

Chilled Asparagus with Feta

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This began as a very lovely recipe for Haricot Verts with feta. My best understanding is that Haricot Verts are a variety of green bean. I found it in Stop and Smell the Rosemary, which is one of my favorite cookbooks.

I prepared this dish for some “impress your future mother in law” meal …click to continue Chilled Asparagus with Feta

Wheat Berry and Smoked Turkey Salad

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Anybody got left-over turkey?

This great little salad is a recipe that came to me one layer at a time. It actually started with a jar of wheat berries. Wheat berries are unprocessed kernels of wheat. When boiled they are a firm grain that really stands up to other proteins.

Then I realized that …click to continue Wheat Berry and Smoked Turkey Salad