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Posts tagged with ‘Vinaigrettes’

  • Spinach Salad with Cumin Vinaigrette Dressing

    Spinach Salad with Cumin Vinaigrette Dressing One of our many cooking missions is to help folks to ditch their bottled salad dressings. You can just as easily make delicious vinaigrettes and dressings with a few pantry essentials. It’s healthier, cheaper, and most importantly, a lot more fun to get out your whisk and exercise some wrist strength. Today’s recipe post [...]
    May 19, 2013
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  • Fish {Tilapia} Baked en Papillote with a French Vinaigrette | Dear Cook Smarts, I need more easy weeknight recipes

    If there is one fish recipe you should know, it’s this one – baked fish en papillote. It’s delicious, fool-proof, healthy, easy, budget-friendly, and fun. Does that check all the necessary boxes? Oh, did I mention it’s easy? There is minimal prep and then it all goes into the oven, out of your sight for 10 minutes. You can use [...]
    October 25, 2012
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  • Grilled Miso-Soy Tofu with Edamame and Cucumber Green Salad | Ingredient Spotlight

    The temperatures have dropped dramatically in the Bay Area over the last few weeks, and by dramatic, I mean we’ve gone from the toasty 80′s of summer to the cold 60′s of autumn. Clearly, the gritty east coaster in me has long disappeared and been replaced by a soft Californian. We may get a few more uses out of the [...]
    October 13, 2012
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  • Peach and Heirloom Tomato Panzanella Salad | Uses for Stale Bread

    While most folks spend their summer months daydreaming about vacation and the beach, I spend mine daydreaming about this: Biting into the perfect peach, juices oozing down my chin Picking the perfect tomato that needs little more than a dash of salt and a splash of balsamic Tossing olive oil on stale bread and giving it new life Luckily, since [...]
    July 12, 2012
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  • The Black Bean + Corn + Farro Salad | 3 Ingredients / 3 Ways

    Part of our “3 Ingredients / 3 Ways” Series, featuring: BLACK BEANS + CORN + FARRO Can you smell the taste of summer yet? I sure can. Every year the heat of summer ushers in a season of cookouts, picnics, and way too many (but yet not enough) ice cream trips. As the season arrives, I am always looking for [...]
    June 13, 2012
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  • Charting the Simple Vinaigrette | Cooking Basics

    Before I started Cook Smarts, I was a Power Pointing nerd, and there was no reason I couldn’t bring old business practices into my new life. After all, who doesn’t love a pretty chart? So I dedicate the first Cook Smarts chart to a cooking formula that is probably used nightly in my cooking routine: the simple vinaigrette. I know [...]
    February 29, 2012
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