Americanized Greek Salad

This salad is the evil bastard stepchild of a true Greek salad.  A true Greek salad is simply tomatoes, cucumbers, red onion dressed in extra virgin and oregano. 
The inspiration for this salad comes from a local restaurant ran by this awesome Greek family who on Saturday after leaving the Farmer’s Market we decided to stop by and eat at.  If you […]

Herb grilled chicken

This dish is what happens when you walk into your herb garden and see an over abundance.  Instead of trimming back the herb plants and throwing the trimmings into the compost bin I just decided to start throwing it together into a marinade. 
For this marinade you will need:

Juice of 1 lemon
1/2 cup of white wine
1 […]

Quinoa Salad

Quinoa is one of those ingredients I seem to run into at the grocery store and always in odd weird places so I have taken that to be a sign that well I need to use it.  Luckily Kevin over at Closet Cooking has done a couple dishes with quinoa and the Aztec salad sounded […]

Parmesan crusted chicken with *gasp* salad

Do not check the URL yes you are still at the same artery clogging, braise filled, pork hugging, vegetarian bashing blog.  However, now that the garden is starting to spit out some decent produce time to start incorporating it into dishes. 
The joy of a salad is it can be whatever in the heck you want to […]

Wasabi Coleslaw

Years ago my old boss walked into my office and threw a bottle of ground wasabi at me with a recipe.  She then explained that she got this recipe and went out and bought ground wasabi for it.  Proceeded to make the dish, tried it, and could not breathe.  Apparently she underestimated the strength of wasabi […]

Seared tuna with a shallot wasabi dressing

I promise all you fellow readers who are dying to see my keel over from heart failure this is not the start of a trend. 
The major key to this dish is the tuna so buy good tuna from a fishmonger you can trust.  Sushi grade only covers the way the fish was handled and to […]

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