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June 01, 2006
Salad Queen
It's true, I am Queen of Salads. We eat salad a lot, and I pride myself on both my homemade dressings and my semi-reliable ability to make a good salad out of whatever we've got. Used to be I always just made my grandmother's vinaigrette, and indeed it is very good, with its not-so-secret ingredient: sugar. But a few years ago Jeff confessed that he was extremely tired of it, so I branched out. Now I can make a decent ranch (not healthy, but Jeff's favorite), very good Caesar (yes, with raw egg, though sometimes I microwave the egg yolk lightly), what I call "Caesar-ish" which is made with mayonnaise instead, blue cheese, and a wide variety of oil-and-vinegar dressings.
The other night we had a particularly good salad, with oranges, avocados, and red onions sliced very thin. The dressing had balsamic vinegar and just a little raw garlic (thank you, Trader Joe's frozen crushed garlic). Lately I've been adding some raw kale to our salads, since we discovered at Rasul and Sepideh's house that although Jeff hates cooked kale, raw is actually fine. It's good in salads.
In other cooking news, I made fish tacos last night. I've discovered a very easy way to do it, also thanks to Trader Joe's. They sell breaded frozen cod fillets that you just cook in the oven, and sliced, they make very good fish tacos. I made a coleslaw with a chipotle-lime dressing, and also cooked some red onions in vinegar. Avocados, tomatoes, feta (a reasonable substitute for cotija), and then sour cream and salsa for Ethan, of course.
Posted by ktingey at June 1, 2006 09:51 PM
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