This salad is fabulous in the summertime when you have fresh tomatoes and basil from the garden or farmers’ market. 2 cups fresh tomatoes, diced 1 teaspoon roasted garlic 3 tablespoons basil, julienned ¼ cup balsamic vinegar Salt Pepper 1 pound fresh basil 8 cloves garlic 2 cups olive oil ¾ cup Parmesan cheese 1 pound pasta Combine diced tomatoes, roasted garlic, julienned basil, vinegar, … Continue reading Summer Pasta Salad
Also called seven-layer salad, this showed up at a lot of our (indoor) summer celebrations. Straight from the 1960s, it’s too high in calories and cholesterol to be a good-for-you vegetable salad. But’s it’s delicious. 1 head iceberg lettuce, torn into bite-sized pieces ½ head romaine lettuce, torn into bite-sized pieces 6 hard boiled eggs, sliced 1 box frozen peas 1 pound bacon, cooked and … Continue reading 24-Hour Salad
Carla has a late December birthday, and amidst the long, dark days loves to have a bright and sunny salad of butter lettuce, mixed greens, mandarin oranges, sliced almonds, and poppyseed dressing with whatever she picked as this year’s main entree. ¼ c sugar 1 t salt 1 t dry mustard 1 T onion juice ⅓ c apple cider vinegar 1 c salad oil 1 … Continue reading Poppyseed Dressing
