Toasts with gouda, capers and olive tapenade
Simple to prepare, and good for guests.
Pretty purple salads
Since we eat a lot of salads, and since I purchased many purple vegetables, I’ve been making many salads with purple vegetables. Most don’t really merit their own posts, since they’re not all that complicated, and what you see is what you get. However, they are awfully pretty, so I’m …
Orange nutmeg waffles
This is one of my favorite ways to make waffles.
Cherry tomatoes and arugula in balsamic cream sauce
I envisioned this as a sort of hot salad. In fact, many of the ingredients are the same — tomatoes, arugula, onions, balsamic vinegar. They just happen to be in a warm cream sauce.
What to do with zuta levana, a.k.a. white savory
I’m off to the United States for the rest of the month, so what better time to write about an herb that grows primarily in the Galilee?
Crayon-box vegetables with crispy herbs
Some people think unusually colored vegetables are, well, weird. My purple potatoes got mixed reactions at work tonight — ranging from excitement to politely (yet poorly) veiled disgust. I, for one, like colorful food, especially if all that color is natural. And this vegetable medley mixes all your basic Crayola …
Winter salad with beet, citrus and snow peas
The beet is a nature-made, all-in-one salad: Its big, red-veined leaves provide the leafy base, the roots make for nice, solid chunks and the stems are like a thin, red celery. Once you have your beet, everything else is just decoration.
Pasta with purple cauliflower and walnut cream sauce
It’s yet another purple dish! As purple food week continues, today we had pasta for lunch, topped with a cream sauce of purple cauliflower and walnuts. Beyond being colorful on its own, the cauliflower lent the sauce a light purple tint.
Tomato salad with purple onion and pepper
Purple food week continues: This is the sister dish to yesterday’s post. Another simple, easy-to-make salad, this time with tomatoes and red-hot — or should I say purple-hot — pepper from the ornamental pepper plant outside our kitchen window.
Purple potato salad with lemon and cilantro
Purple food week continues: Tonight I made a light salad out of vitelotte potatoes, with a gentle dressing of olive oil and lemon.