Category: Salads

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Tomato Salad with Parsley Vinaigrette

Tomato Salad with Parsley Vinaigrette | Bijouxs Little Jewels

Garden fresh today a simple Tomato Salad with Parsley Vinaigrette No. 665 in the Collection Membership.

END OF SUMMER TOMATOES

Stop and pick up some end of season tomatoes, they are lush and warm from the late summer sun. Today I found this luscious tomato at the local Farmers market, who could resist?

FRESH PARSLEY VINAIGRETTE

Just a few ingredients are need to create this fresh parsley vinaigrette. Beautiful on sliced ripe tomatoes, or tossed with salad greens or even pasta- a versatile Little Jewel.

The current heat wave over most of the country call for cool refreshing dishes. This tomato salad is one I have on repeat.

Savor the season.

 

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Backberry Salad with Arugula Sprouts & Mint

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Summer is ending and going out with a bang! Wow, giant blackberries have appeared at the Farmers Market, who can resist? No. 658 Backberry Salad with Arugula Sprouts & Mint is not be be missed.

Backberry Salad with Arugula Sprouts & Mint | Bijouxs Little Jewels

FARMERS MARKET

Lately I have found some great finds at my local Farmers market, it’s a very tiny market but great things do pop up. Recently I found giant blackberries, plump and sweet. I also found the always elusive Aurgula Sprouts. I paired the sweet berries with the peppery greens, winning combination.

SALADS DAYS

I love the term “salad days” as it refers to much more than a salad.
It is also a time of youth, innocence, and inexperience. A period when a person is young and inexperienced. My favorite time of life.

Backberry Salad with Arugula Sprouts & Mint | Bijouxs Little Jewels

Enjoying Backberry Salad with Arugula Sprouts & Mint, it freshing and inspires memories or youth & innocence.

SUMMER SALAD

I am making the most of summer produce now before it’s gone. I added some creamy fresh Mozarella bites and pinenuts for crunch to the salad. Combine your favorite fruit and fresh greens and grab the last days of Summer produce, savor the season.

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Lime Basil Vinaigrette Salad

Lime Basil Vinaigrette Salad | Bijouxs Little Jewels

My newest food obsession-No. 656 Lime Basil Salad Dressing – good on almost anything and new today in the Membership Collection.

LIME & BASIL

What a delightful pair- making one of the best salad dressings around. I had tried Lemon with Basil, but wow Lime just knocks it out of the park.

Lime Basil Vinaigrette Salad | Bijouxs Little Jewels

SALAD GREENS

A word here about salad greens. With the latest health scare (seems there’s one every day) I switched over to greenhouse grown salad greens, finding them locally from Gotham Greens. I’m willing to pay extra for freshness and safety. I also made up my own oranganic food washing liquid and wash everything.

Lime Basil Vinaigrette Salad | Bijouxs Little Jewels

LIME & BASIL SALAD

This crisp bowl has quickly become my new lunchtime favorite. A simple sald of the freshest greens tossed with homemade Lime Basil Vinaigrette. It’s so easy to prepare your own dressings and control the ingredients, you know what’s in it!

The salad is great made with Gotham Green’s Greenhouse Crunch lettuce, or combine your own favorite greens. So good you will consume the whole bowl of this simple salad.

Lime Basil Vinaigrette Salad | bijouxs Little Jewels

Healthy everyday in our kitchens.

 

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French Lentils with Preserved Lemon & Herbs

French Lentils with Preserved Lemon & Herbs | Bijouxs Little Jewels

Feeling French today with this salad of Puy lentils, preserved lemon paste dressing and tons of herbs-No.646 in the Membership Collection.

Lentils make a healthy weeknight main salad or side and so easy to make. To start try to use French Puy Lentils. They are small, dark green and stay together when cooked. Slightly peppery the lentils hold up to the intense lemon dressing and spark of flavors from the herbs.

PRESERVED LEMONS

FRENCH LENTILS | Bijouxs Little Jewels

French Lentils | Bijouxs Little Jewels

Having preserved lemons is a flavor bomb for your cooking. Here is an easy recipe to make the lemons, and yes, patience pays off. The preserved lemons can be used in many dishes and a pungent lemon spread make from the lemons is what cranks up the flavor or the dressing for this salad. I added some on hand tangerines to the preserve as well.

PUY LENTILS

Puy lentils are a small, slate-gray/green variety of lentil grown in the Le Puy region of France, known for their unique peppery flavor and ability to retain their shape after cooking. They are protected by a designation that ensures their quality and origin, making them a sought-after ingredient in various dishes. Available on line.

French Lentils with Preserved Lemon & Herbs | Bijouxs Little Jewels

For added zip I like to add extra Lemon Paste to the salad.

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Radicchio Salad with Green Olive Dressing

Radicchio Salad with Green Olive Dressing | Bijouxs Little Jewels

The tartness of the Italian Radiccio is softened by a creamy green Castelvetranos olive dressing along with the saltiness of Parmeasan cheese- Radicchio Salad with Green Olive Dressing a salad to love.

RADICCHIO 

Radicchio is an Italian green that is in the chicory family. It comes in many varieties, but my favorite is the beautiful heads with green tinged leaves,  Radicchio di Choiggia, the tight heads with beautiful purple-pink leaves, this is what you most often see at the famers markets. My favorite is Radicchio de Vento, with its delicate pink leaves, make a lovely salad, grab it when you can find it.

The tartness of the Italian Radiccio is softened by a creamy green Castelvetranos olive dressing along with the saltiness of Parmeasan cheese- Radicchio Salad with Green Olive Dressing a salad to love. RADICCHIO Radicchio is an Italian green that is in the chicory family. It comes in many varieties, but my favorite is the beautiful heads with green tinged leaves, Radicchio di Choiggia, the tight heads with beautiful purple-pink leaves, this is what you most often see at the famers markets. My favorite is Radicchio de Vento, with its delicate pink leaves, make a lovely salad, grab it when you can find it. GREEN OLIVE DRESSING The finely grated olives create a creamy dressing for the crisp Radicchio along with some garlic, olive oil, mild vinegar and lots of gratedParmesan cheese. RADICCHIO SALAD A simple salad that packs a punch. The radicchio creates the punch and the creamy green olive dressing tones tings down added with the saltiness of the Parmesan cheese -Prego! Radicchio Salad with Green Olive Dressing |Bijouxs Little Jewels

GREEN OLIVE DRESSING

The finely grated olives create a creamy dressing for the crisp Radicchio along with some garlic,  olive oil, mild vinegar and lots of gratedParmesan cheese.Radicchio Salad with Green Olive Dressing | Bijouxs Little Jewels

RADICCHIO SALAD

A simple salad that packs a punch. The radicchio creates the punch and the creamy green olive dressing tones tings down added with the saltiness of the Parmesan cheese -Prego!Radicchio Salad with Green Olive Dressing | Bijouxs Little Jewels

 

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