Salads

C.’s Lentil Sprout Salad

November 4, 2011 By Wardee Harmon 13 Comments

My son C. loves, loves, loves lentil sprouts! He got it from my dad. When my mom and dad go on road trips, my dad keeps his sprouts going. He makes stops to rinse and drain sprouts just like he used to make potty stops for us when we were growing up.

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Spring Quinoa Salad

June 1, 2011 By Wardee Harmon 22 Comments

When the warmer weather settles in — which it hasn’t quite here, still raining — I start making lots of cold grain salads. My favorite grain to use is quinoa. The salads are a satisfying, yet light and cool, main dish and can boast of including virtually anything you’ve got on hand.

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Feta and Chard

April 8, 2011 By Wardee Harmon 16 Comments

We are very excited to be gardening this year! Not on our place, but at friends’. When I went there early this week for planning, she sent me home with a box full of beautiful rainbow chard. My family gobbled up this delicious steamed chard side dish.

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Kimchi: Korean Sauerkraut

January 5, 2011 By Wardee Harmon 29 Comments

My family surprised me by liking traditional, lacto-fermented sauerkraut — the straight-up kind as taught in our class on traditional cooking. They’re surprising me more with their love for the two variations: kimchi or kimchee, the Korean sauerkraut; and tsukemono, the Japanese sauerkraut.

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7 Delicious Whole Food Salads

November 2, 2010 By Wardee Harmon 4 Comments

Today is the salad course of the real food progressive dinner. For my contribution, I’m sharing this collection of our favorite salads. I couldn’t leave any out, they’re all so good! And remember, there are lots more yummy salads over at Donielle’s (our hostess) today.

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Quinoa Garden Salad

September 12, 2010 By Wardee Harmon 23 Comments

And here’s the third seasonal salad I promised. This salad offers a just a few more seasonal treats, along with cold cooked quinoa. Isn’t it colorful? And it is oh-so-delicious. Adding chicken and cheese — or how about some diced hard-boiled eggs? — turns it into a main dish. A very easy meal, I’d say!

Mediterranean Cucumber-Tomato-Mint Salad

September 6, 2010 By Wardee Harmon 10 Comments

When the cucumbers and tomatoes are available at the Farmers’ Market, I do go a little crazy. Can you blame me? We eat one of three cucumber and/or tomato salads just about every day. I already shared one with you — the cucumber yogurt/kefir salad — and this post includes another. If you’re counting, that means I still have one more to show you.

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Cucumber Yogurt/Kefir Salad

August 16, 2010 By Wardee Harmon 12 Comments

Nothing says summer to me more than crisp, cool, cucumber salads. They remind me of my Middle Eastern heritage and favorite growing-up foods. Cucumber-yogurt salad was a staple of my childhood.

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