Category: Salads
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Fresh Peach Vinaigrette
Are you looking for a different salad dressing for your labour day long weekend BBQ? Then you must try this fresh peach vinaigrette using a few simple ingredients and your food processor. Basically all you need to do is put all the ingredients in the food processor, hold the button down for 30 seconds and…
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Tomato and Beet Salad with Goat Cheese and Fresh Basil
It sure feels like I haven’t posted anything in a long time! I’ve been so busy with work, preparing for and travelling to our annual meeting. But now it’s all done and I can relax and get back to what I really love, cooking (and eating….). I recently made this delicious tomato and beet salad with goat…
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Asparagus and Mixed Greens Salad with Lemon Fennel Vinaigrette
Do you love asparagus? I love asparagus, it’s one of my favourite vegetables. And my favourite way to prepare asparagus is simply roasting it. If you’ve been blanching/steaming asparagus all your life, give roasting a try, it’s so much more flavourful. Since you’ll be roasting some asparagus anyway, you might as well make this asparagus and mixed…
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Grilled Honey Orange Chicken Salad
With every sunny day day I feel like summer is getting closer and closer. We’ve been spending a lot of time working on our plot in the community garden, planting flowers on our rooftop patio and getting our fresh herb patio boxes ready. I can’t wait to grow my own vegetables this year and make…
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Quinoa Salad with Cherry Tomatoes and Fresh Basil
If you’re looking for a quick and easy salad to make then you should definitely make this quinoa salad with cherry tomatoes and fresh basil. After having spent a couple hours working on our plot in the community garden James and I were tired from moving wheelbarrows of soil and very hungry. We didn’t have much…