salad

I've been on a real salad kick lately, having big salads as full meals. The outline I try to follow is: Nutritious green: Kale or Spinach Additional veggies: tomato, mushroom, cucumber, red onion, whatever is around the house Protein: Chicken or beans or chick peas or hard boiled egg Sometimes...

Mix 1.5L bowl of watercress and tear greens, then place on nice platter. In med bowl mix 2-3 Tsb. of fresh lemon juice, 3-tab. extra virgin olive oil (evoo), salt and pepper Add either 2 pears or apples thin sliced. Toss gently with dressing Place the fruit on top of the greens and with a...

Bagged and ready to eat salads may contain cryptosporidum infections, due to bugs clinging to the salad leaves in the washing process, according to this report. Experts advise that you should still wash salad leaves, even those labelled ready to eat. This concerns me, as I often buy bagged...

Chickpea Salad This is a rich and powerful salad which can form the main course of a cold summer lunch. It is also best made the previous day and allowed to mature. Plus it is best made with freshly cooked (slightly overdone) chickpeas. Tinned just don't it any justice. Cook the chickpeas in...