Refreshing Salads and Sandwiches

So in the interest of it being hot and summer and all, I will now post about seasonally-appropriate foodstuffs. Mmm…foodstuffs.
First off, we have a delightful salad concoction that I first tried at Drew’s cousin Amanda’s birthday party not too long ago. As it has no name that I am aware of, I shall (for this [...]

My Big Fat Oozing Mediterranean Sandwich

I feel like I have discovered the ultimate in vegetable versatility. I’d been looking for some sort of Mediterranean salad to make and was a bit overwhelmed with all of the possibilities I came across online. So I decided to pick and choose things I liked from each recipe (or rather, things I already had [...]

Adventures with Fruit Salad

Fruit salad is a joyous thing. The reason for this is that to me, fruit salad would not be what it is without chocolate chips and marshmallows. That’s what I ate growing up (those, plus a large assortment of fruit, I should mention), and that’s the standard to which I hold all fruit salad. A [...]

Sunomono (of Joy)

I may have mentioned this before, but I will never again have the problem of too many cucumbers. It’s not a commonly occurring problem for most people, and in the past, I have mostly only been afflicted with it when I’ve been acquainted with entirely too many people who have had gardens with cucumbers in [...]

Sunomono, or Rather, What to Do With All These Cucumbers

I had briefly considered growing cucumbers this summer. It’s the first year ever since I’d moved out of my parents place some 10ish years ago that I’ve had a yard. Or rather, if you’re willing to define ‘yard’ as ‘lying 4 refrigerators on their sides, tracing the area, then covering that area with dirt plus [...]

Super Chicken Salads!

Oh, the Chick-fil-a, it goes so fast.
Featured today are the salads made of the straggling remnants of chicken from the Cow Appreciation Day debacle of several day’s past. Let’s just say it was good while it lasted.
A box of 4 chicken strips is entirely suitable as well as wholesomely appropriate for festooning the [...]

Green Papaya Salad

So every time I’ve eaten green papaya salad, I’ve gotten sick to my stomach. The first time I ate it was when I’d up and decided to make it myself, not long after having discovered the fabulous joys of Vietnamese salads. See, I was at this party, and this dude Chad burbled on to me [...]

Drew’s Magical Salad

I actually have a really hard time making salads. The big problem is the dressing, I suppose. The store dressings I’d get never tasted as good as restaurant dressings. Also, I had a bad habit of buying ranch dressing and continuing to use it for long after the expiration date, whereupon it gets a weird [...]