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Thursday, January 27, 2011
This-is-on-my-mind
It is the dead of winter here. We have already doubled our annual average snowfall amount....
I have to buy all my fresh produce and I'm needing a salad a day. Any suggestions, recipes, or ideas on how to get raw vegetables in my tummy?
As always...a thanks to Rhonda for hosting this!
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Hello Mary, nice to meet you. We have had a record amount of snow fall as well. I'm ready for some sunshine.
~~HUGS~~
hi mary, i have a million trillion cookbooks, i have posted my favourite salad on my blog today, check it out its yum, if you like pumpkin.
Hey Mary sorry I am in soup and stew mode. No fresh anything now. B
I like fresh vegetables like cabbage, peppers, onion, beets, radish very finely sliced and tossed together with a dressing.
I love a good coleslaw.
It doesn't snow here in Winter but we're having a tropical cyclone hit us right now, so we're probably hitting double our normal rainfall for summer!
Thank you all for your comments! @Brendie, I will try that recipe with butternut squash~its a more managable size for me. I would never have tried that on my own. @Rhonda, I love beets and always eat them alone. In a salad is PERFECT! @Blessings and Buttons I'd rather the small amounts of snow rather than the incessant cold rain in winter and soup sounds really good.
OOps! I didn't forget you Ms Lottie! I love coleslaw too ~ southern style with BBQ or fried catfish!
Hello Mary
Thanks for dropping in and looking at my mess lol My cat is a Brown Burmese (think that colour is called Sable in the USA Fancy)
Green salad is good, lettuce or cabbage shredded along with thinly sliced green capsicums, (as in your photo)cucumbers and zuccini as well as chopped spring (green) onions. Can you get these summer ingredients during your winter?
Take care
Cathy
Yes Cathy I can get lots of produce here. I live in a smallish city that has lots of supermarkets.
I like Mr. Burmese's eyes. I'm not familiar with Fancy Cats. I've only known Basic Cats and met a couple of crazy Siamese Cats along my path.
Hi Mary! Looks like you have some good advice, I too enjoy coleslaw! Thanks for stopping by my blog!
Hi Mary, wow such an enormous amount of snow!
Our all-in-together salad for 2 is thinly sliced: 1/4 white onion, 1 large handful chinese cabbage, 1/4 sml red capsicum, 2 sticks celery, 10 slices cucumber, 6 green beans, grated: 1 sml carrot, 1/2 sml zucchini(courgette), finely chopped: 2 florets broccoli, torn: med handfuls spinach and lettuce leaves.
In a lidded jar, add: 1 teaspoon each of dijon mustard and minced garlic, 2 Tablespoons each of egg mayonnaise and Oil-free lite Italian Dressing. Shake the dressing well and mix it through the salad and serve straight away - otherwise keep dressing and salad separate until needed.
Of course, anything else can be added and quantities varied...this is just how we like it!
Just a clarification, 1/2 = half and 1/4 = quarter... didn't think of that when writing the post, but once published, it didn't look right :O
My favorite winter salad is just grated carrots with a vinaigrette made with lemon instead of vinegar. Or lettuce with a garlic vinaigrette. Mmmmm, now I want to eat a salad.
Marie~I will try the lemon idea!
Susan~Yes we've had snow in 1 to 3 inch snowfalls all winter. That is unusual for us but it happens every decade. I'd rather snow than the cold rain and wind. The salad sounds good. I have so many ideas now! The green beans is certainly a twist for this neck of the woods. We cook our green beans down with bacon or ham in the traditional way. Serving someone raw green beans will raise some eyebrows! SSHHH maybe they won't know if they are grated? :)
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