Daily Unadventures in Cooking

Capers are like the vegetarian’s bacon. Like olives, they punch salt into any dish they are added to — perfect for a simple green salad.

I generally don’t like tartar sauce because it is so sweet, but this healthy tartar sauce recipe is tangy without being cloying.

This salad celebrates the very best of Spring: the first crop of greens from my garden, and a beautiful sunny evening which inspired me to use the grill in creative ways — like toasting nuts.

This lemon sauce is a simple addition to cooked fish or roast vegetables.

I love goat cheese and add it to salads all the time, but this time I was wondering whether I could create a nice smooth salad dressing. I had half a lemon and a bushy parsley plant to add to the mix and was very happy with the results. Tangy and sour is how I [...]

A fresh salad recipe with candied pecans, strawberries, white balsamic and mixed greens.

It is too hot to cook, too hot to even turn on the stove. In fact using the food processor was almost over the edge. At any rate I threw this together to use up things in my pantry, I had a big bag of carrots and a bunch of flat leaf parsley which wasn’t [...]

So, today my boyfriend threatened to stop eating my cooking because it’s effects are becoming, umm, evident. This certainly has been a bit of a problem in our house for the last little while and if he stops eating I lose out on a guinea pig! So today my inspiration was to make something delicious [...]

I recently signed up for an organic delivery service, so now, every two weeks, I get a new little package on my doorstep full of organic veggies. The highlights so far include grapefruit, kiwis and carrots but also lots of basics like potatoes and lettuce. Last week, they included broccoli and since I was lazy [...]

I have just re-discovered Caesar salad, it really is an oldie but a goodie. This is real Caesar salad and the recipe was adapted from Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything. I have been bothering to coddle the eggs, but it is really a personal choice. For the garlic I like it minced right up [...]

Apologies for the lack of posting, I have been super busy and eating mostly quick salads and sandwiches. Silly work interfering with my hobbies! However in the vein of trying to be a little healthier, inspired a bit by Kalyns Kitchen and needing things to be quick I have been trying to branch out my [...]