Different cultures celebrate New Year’s Day on different dates – anywhere from January to October. BUT — why not celebrate a new every day? If you use nice dishes, light a candle, and share a meal with someone you love, every day is a holiday.
Salads
Spinach Salad with Ginger & Lime Vinaigrette
What do you get with the heat of ginger, the cool of lime, the sweetness of strawberries, the earthiness of spinach, and the crunch of sugar&spice almonds? This salad! A perennial favourite with our family,
Egg and Dill Salad
Springtime. New life. Light evenings. Fresh breezes. Pussy willows. Daffodils. Campfires. And frost boil-jumping. What? Yes, that is one of my favourite activities in the spring.
Maple Vinaigrette with Goat Cheese Salad
This is a dangerously delicious salad. One of those salads that will tempt you to eat nothing else for dinner. Or at least nibble the ingredients while preparing it, leaving you with no appetite for other food. But the risk is worth taking!
Apple Blueberry Cabbage Salad
My mother was an elementary school teacher – back in the days when the ABC’s were more important than teaching political correctness. Her mother was also a teacher – before college degrees were required for educators.
Mexican Style Tomato Salad
I love colour. In fact, one of the things I love doing is thumbing through paint company fan-decks. Once I get past the bizarre, yet creative names, I get lost in shades of green, blue, and even white.
Baba Ghanoush (Eggplant Dip)
“Kristina i Köket” (Kristina in the Kitchen) would be a great title for a television show! At least for the next week or so, as I visit my daughter who lives and works in the Stockholm Archipelago. She is an amazing, creative, instinctive, adventurous cook!
Apple and Blackberry Compote
There is something so wonderful about this time of year — even though everyone is busy with programs, parties, and dozens of other activities, there’s this driving desire to connect with friends we haven’t seen for a long time. “Stop by for tea!”
Smoked Salmon Stuffed Acorn Squash
This has been “one of those weeks”. Too much going on. Not enough getting done. Too little energy. Not nearly enough sleep. And no groceries in the refrigerator because I don’t have time to shop. Am I alone in this situation???
Spicy Mayonnaise & Sweet Potato Fries
Since high school days, one of my favourite places to visit is Stillwater, MN. As teens we would sit alongside the river and people watch. In my 20’s, I would scour the plentiful antique shops and people watch. As an adult, I enjoy the fantastic restaurants, car shows, and boutiques — and people watch.
