Strawberry season in Minnesota might be one of my favorite times for our garden. While we get lettuce and radish and even rhubarb earlier in the spring, strawberries with their succulent sweet flavor and bright red color seem to be the first bountiful thing that we get. While many nights we will pick a bowl…
Lemon Ginger & Garlic Vinaigrette
I normally don’t post salad dressing recipes independently, usually it’s a part of the flavor profile of whatever salad I am making and I like to keep them together. But this Lemon Ginger & Garlic Vinaigrette quickly became a versatile new favorite of ours. I first made it last summer when I spent a week…
Steakhouse Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing
What do you do when you plan to make Bacon Wrapped Blue Cheese Stuffed Dates for the first time and have absolutely no idea how much blue cheese you’ll need so you buy the double package at Costco and end up with one full container and then some leftover? Well if you’re me, you decide…
Garden Lettuce w Vinegar Dressing
I got this recipe from my husband’s Grandma and Grandpa Britton. Every year they grow a huge garden, full of potatoes, onions, corn, and too many other veggies to mention and of course the purpose of this post, loose leaf lettuce. The best thing about this lettuce/salad is you can pick a fresh salad for…
Eloise’s Caesar Salad
Larry and Eloise were our neighbors growing up, just a short jaunt through the woods to their house. Not only were they neighbors, they were like second parents to Dana and me, we spent a lot of time with them while Mom and Dad were working. These are some of our best memories, Larry and…
Southwest Salad with Lime Vinaigrette
I was never much of a salad person prior to turning 25, I’ve written before that I would prefer to live on carbs alone. I’ve since learned that salads don’t just have to be lettuce and Italian dressing. I now bring a salad to work at least twice a week. I’ve become somewhat of a…
