Salads
Salad recipes
Ditalini’s Grilled Chicken & Romaine Salad
Ditalini adapted this dinner salad from an Americas Test Kitchen recipe, using ingredients to hand and sizing it for two. It was filling and tasty, and a welcome addition to our repertoire of grilled veggies.
Crouton’s Salade Niçoise
Our State of the Union speech night dinner was a nice Niçoise, which is a really awful pun, since Niçoise basically means “Nice-style,” after the city on the French Riviera. I promise not to do it again. Ditalini and I…
Crouton’s Taco Salad
Taco salad is pretty generic, and ingredients vary depending on taste and what’s on hand. It’s a great one-dish meal, and easy to make. Here’s how I do it:
Salad with Grilled Salmon
Ditalini came up with this great grilled salmon salad. She makes the salad and dressing; I grill the salmon. Notes You can cook the salmon any way you like. We prefer to grill it. We leave the skin on the…
Crouton’s Chicken Satay w/Cucumber Salad & Frites
When we lived in Holland we discovered satay, the Indonesian/Thai peanut sauce served with skewered pork and chicken, even as a dip for pommes frites (French fried potatoes). We still love satay, and occasionally make it with chicken and our…
Christmas Eve Seafood
We invited all our single friends over to help us decorate our tree on Christmas Eve. Of course one has to give in order to receive, so we lured them over with promises of food. Our traditional Christmas Eve feast…
Parmesan Chicken with Sautéed Green Beans & Tomato/Mozzarella Salad
I was on deck for dinner last night so I decided to prepare one of Ditalini’s favorites: Parmesan chicken. Sautéed green beans and tomato/mozzarella salad seemed like they would go well with the chicken, and you know what? They did.…
A Birthday Dinner with Friends
In these recessionary times, sharing dinner at home with friends is becoming a larger part of our social life. If it’s a friend’s birthday, so much the better. Our buddy Rudy from Las Vegas came to visit this weekend; since…
Crouton’s Pasta Salad with Tomatoes & Mozzarella
Notes This salad can be eaten right away, slightly warm from the freshly-cooked pasta, or refrigerated and served cold. If more is needed, simply increase the ingredients, but be careful not to overdo the spices.