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Quinoa is a wonderful little grain that is packed with protein and calcium. It is a great way to vary dishes that typically call for rice. This is a version of a salad that I sometimes eat with brown rice and black beans covered in pico de gallo or salsa. Easy, healthful, good. Here, …click to continue Quinoa and Black Bean Salad with Jicama Salsa
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
So, the other day I was talking to Tim Byres. You know, Tim Byres, the chef of the local BBQ joint, SMOKE. This is hardly a BBQ joint in the traditional sense, but there are just enough Olan Mills family portraits with old dudes in their Sunday best …click to continue Grilled Vegetables with Basil Pecan Pesto
Following the dodo bird, presentation salads have wandered down the road to extinction. For the gelatin based creations I will mostly agree that this is a good thing, although a recent tryst with panna cotta made me re-consider my general reticence towards gelatin based goods. This has been a stupid prejudice, because gelatin is …click to continue Eight Layer Salad
Welcome to another installment of What I Eat When I Have Only Myself to Please. When I lived in Austin a half a century ago, there was a little sandwich shop, the name of which I have completely forgotten. But they served a tuna sandwich on focaccia bread with an oil and vinegar dressing …click to continue Tuna on Ciabatta with Oil and Vinegar
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