Category: Salads

  • Grapefruit, Avocado & Mango Fruit Salad

       Here’s a simple recipe for a delicious light fruit salad.  We’re starting to see some glimpses of spring around here – lots of trees blossoming, a couple nice sunny warm days, and more fruit filling up the produce aisle.  With that comes spring recipes!

  • Spicy Lemongrass Miso Salad Dressing

    A restaurant remake success that I could just cry over! A Sacramento restaurant called Lemongrass Asian Grill & Noodle Bar makes the most amazing spicy salad dressing ever.  You know how restaurants give you an excessively large container of dressing for your takeout salad?  Like, well over 1/4 C of dressing.  Well, I eat all…

  • Balsamic Marinated Tofu Salad

    On my drive home from work tonight, there was a gorgeous pink sunset.  Loved it!  I wanted to take a picture, but my phone was out of reach.  I mean . . . that would be unsafe . . .   Anyway, it dawned on me why it was so unusual to see a sunset on…

  • Mapled Squash & Sauteed Mushroom Fall Salad

    Alright, my last couple posts were fall in a mug and fall in a bowl (well, I guess my bowl was really a giant mug.  Technicality.)  Now fall on a plate!  I had originally titled this my “Beckoning Fall Salad,” because I planned to post it last week when the weather was still bright and…

  • New Flora: Jackfruit + Taco Salad

    It has been so long since I’ve done a new flora post!  This one is really exciting.  Hopefully you’ve heard of jackfruit, but if not then I am excited to be the one to tell you! Jackfruit is often used as a shredded meat replacement because it naturally has that texture.  So today I’m sauteing…

  • Orange & Red Onion Salad

    Hello, lovely readers!  I have a few quick updates about the blog before I get on to the food!  First, I’m working on updating my pages to make them a little more viewer-friendly (super exciting changes like altering fonts and adding pictures on my recipes page – I’m quite the techie.)    I’m adding more…

  • Creamy Curried Potato Salad

    I did something pretty strange.  If you’ve looked at my blog, like . . . at all, you’ve probably noticed that I love my spicy foods.  So curry seems like a natural thing for me to make.  But I made a mild, cool, creamy curry dish.    And it’s fantastic.  It still has a nice…

  • Sesame Salad w/ Teriyaki Baked Tofu

       Wow.  I had drafted the intro to this post awhile ago before I actually tested the recipe, but totally had to delete that whole thing because it was not. enthusiastic. enough.     I am pretty damn proud of this.  In the recent past, I quickly transitioned from tofu-hater-just-due-to-fear to tofu-lover.  But I am…

  • Lemongrass Green Curry Quinoa Salad

      Meet my new favorite lunch. A healthy salad with lots of quinoa and veggies and a dressing that will knock your socks off.     The inspiration for this salad?  I really need to use up a bottle of Thai green curry paste in my fridge.  And now that I’ve discovered this little dressing, I…

  • Roasted Cauliflower Salad

    How can you say no to cauliflower when it is this beautiful!?   Usually I find cauliflower to be a fairly boring vegetable, and rarely buy it.  But when I saw a giant beautiful purple cauliflower at the farmer’s market this weekend, I suddenly found myself excited about this often-ignored veggie.