My dear friend Rose came over for lunch to celebrate my birthday back in July and since my birthday is during the summer break that meant at least one child was home from school. On this afternoon it was Anjali who joined us for our super light, fresh, and healthy lunch soiree. Here is a look at our birthday lunch menu. Continue reading Fresh and Light Birthday Lunch
Category Archives: Quick & Easy Recipes
Lemon Walnut Oil Vinaigrette
Walnut oil has an earthy mild toasted sesame seed-oil type of flavor profile. Give it a try in your next vinaigrette dressing for a toasted nutty flavor.
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Fresh Herbs Salad with Radish, Cucumbers & Pickled Onions
This salad is refreshing, crunchy, juicy, packed with delicate herb flavor, with a hint of citrus dressing all topped with tangy feta cheese. Just delicious!
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Cream Cheese Edible Art with Herbs & Edible Flowers
I’m a huge fan of edible leaves and flowers from the garden, and when I see edible flowers incorporated into a food recipe I have to give it a try!
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The Dawa Cocktail
With a few simple ingredients – lime juice, honey, brown sugar and vodka – the dawa is the perfect drink on a balmy summer evening.
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Tossed Green Salad with Mango, Peppers & Onions with Honey Vinaigrette
What makes this salad pop is the honey vinaigrette dressing. Because this salad has sweet ripe mangoes the honey vinaigrette really enhances the sweetness of the fruit.
Tossed Green Salad with Mango, Peppers & Onions with Honey Vinaigrette
Ingredients:
- 1 ripe mango cut into cubes
- 1/2 small red onion cut into thin slices
- 4 small peppers cut into little rings
- 6 cups salad greens
- 1 ripe avocado cut into small chunks
- 2 tbsp Feta cheese or parmesan shavings (optional)
- Roasted pistachios or roasted cashews or any nuts of your choice or sunflower seeds
- Honey Vinaigrette. Here is the link to the recipe for Honey Vinaigrette
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Pickled Onions
My friend Rose brought a delicious herb and radish salad with pickled onions when she stopped by for lunch back in early July. This salad was outstanding. What added an unexpected flavor to the salad was the pickled onions. Rose said she had made the pickled onions at home. When I asked her if they were hard to make, she said the recipe was super easy and shared it with me. I gave it a try, and she was right! For the gourmet taste and look of these delicious pickled onions, they were surprisingly simple to make and took just 5- 10 minutes to pull together. Continue reading Pickled Onions
Dark Chocolate with Sun-dried Cherries, Fuchsia Blossoms & Rose Petals
In this recipe I used sun-dried cherries in dark chocolate bark, and then added edible fuchsia blossoms and rose petals as decoration for gorgeous color.
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Federica Cucinelli’s Rigatoni with Tomato and Basil
This is a simple summer time pasta that highlights all the fresh picked garden tomatoes to perfection and lets the flavors shine
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Green Apple & Sugar Snap Peas Salad
This salad is inspired by my garden, in an effort to use up my garden Anna apples in a savory dish, I decided to make a salad with apples and sugar snap peas.
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