Entries tagged as ‘lettuce’
A collaboration tonight: I made a garden salad with my vinaigrette, mixed lettuce greens, heirloom cherry tomatoes (all different colors and shapes), cucumber, green onions, and, because they are in season and totally buttery, delicious and CHEAP, a whole avocado for each of us!
By J’s request, I also made the oven crisped potatoes with rosemary, garlic, black pepper, salt and olive oil, I made last week, and reheated the butternut squash from last night. J sautéed mushrooms, onions and garlic in olive oil, fried up the steak burgers in the skillet, then made a gravy in which to further sauté the burgers and then serve over the top of them.
For dessert, another in-season treat: a fruit salad of just perfect fresh pineapple, slightly disappointing strawberries and a delectable little honey tangerine.
Categories: I Cooked · J Cooked
Tagged: avocado, beef, black pepper, burgers, butternut, cucumber, garlic, green onions, lettuce, mushrooms, olive oil, onions, pineapple, potatoes, rosemary, salad, squash, strawberries, tangerine, tomatoes, vinaigrette
A treat tonight- one of J’s Southern family-style meals! Pan-fried ham steak with red-eye gravy, red beans and rice (a mix from a package, but they are damned good), and a pot of J’s family heirloom Virginia half-runner beans that have been passed down for at least four generations by now. They’re a little tougher than your typical haricôts verts, so J puts them in the old-school pressure cooker with some bacon (we’re out of salt pork) to tenderize and flavor them. They’re delicious and grew so well in the garden last year, we’ll be planting more soon.
J baked a skillet cornbread from scratch with onions and Sriracha in it. We started off with a California-syle green salad (lettuce, tomato, avocado, cucumber, carrots and green onions) with the vinaigrette dressing I made the other night. (Did I mention there’s a tutorial on making a vinaigrette salad dressing coming up?)
And to finish off, PIE! Blueberries, cherries and peaches mixed together, with Ben & Jerry’s cinnamon bun ice cream to top it off. Sometimes it really is better to be cooked for than it is to cook!
Categories: J Cooked
Tagged: avocado, bacon, beans, blueberries, carrots, cherries, cinnamon, cornbread, cucumber, gravy, green beans, green onions, ham, ice cream, iceberg, lettuce, onions, peaches, pie, red beans, rice, romaine, salad, Sriracha, tomatoes, vinaigrette, Virginia half-runners
Caesar salad with Marie’s Caesar dressing, romaine lettuce and green onions from Trader Joe’s, as well as some beets leftover from last night. Some shaved Parmesan over the top, and instead of chicken, TJ’s chicken sausages with basil and sun-dried tomatoes. No croutons…
Categories: I Cooked
Tagged: basil, beets, caesar, chicken, green onions, lettuce, Parmesan, romaine, salad, sausage, sun-dried tomatoes
