Kale and Red Cabbage Salad

This salad is a fresh, tasty, healthy and keeps beautifully! The best part is that it has so much going on, it easily makes a satisfying meal. Full of nutrient dense kale and cabbage, pumpkin seeds and dried cranberries, you can really sink your teeth into this one.








Kale is one of the greens that you should be including in your diet. Kale is a nutritional star! Full of fiber,

How Leafy Greens Boost Activity of Vital Immune Cells To Prevent Disease

Leafy greens are likely the number one food you can eat to regularly help improve your health. They're filled with fiber along with crucial vitamins, minerals, and plant-based phytochemicals that may help protect you from almost every disease known. Immune cells play an essential role in protecting intestinal health and could be boosted by consuming leafy greens, say researchers.



You can

A Pretty Holiday Salad--And it's Packed with Super Healing Foods

This time of year, we're loving pomegranates!  They are packed with super healing powers, plus they add just the right festive color for holiday dishes.




 

 





There is so much rich food around during the holidays.  Why not simplify with a beautiful, health-promoting and delicious salad.  The best thing about this salad is that it is so holiday-right that you can bring it to a

Not Your Church Potluck Potato Salad

Potatoes for Sale at my Local Farmers Market


Potatoes are plentiful in my local farmer's market this time of summer.  I love to boil up the tiny new ones and use them in various potato salads.  Serve them with some simple sliced summer tomatoes, corn on the cob and something from the BBQ and you have the quintessential summer menu.



Fresh Organic Potatoes



Not Your Church Potluck Potato

Some New Greens from the Farmers Market...Quinoa and Ammaranth

Last week at my local Farmer's Market, I picked up some greens I've never cooked with before, quinoa and amaranth.  The farmer I purchased them from informed me that they would be great added to salads and also could be cooked up like any other green.  I washed them up, broke off their stems at the intersection with the leaf and tossed them in a pan.  Evaluation:  delicious!!



Sesame Greens

5-Minute Farmers Market Summer Cucumbers

I'm loving cucumbers right now.  We've had them every other night for the last few weeks.  And ... I have a confession to make.  I serve them the exact same way each time.  It's fast, it's easy, it's delicious.  Why mess with perfection?

Here's what I do:


 5-minute Summer Cucumbers








2 small summer cucumbers from the garden or farmer's market
olive oil
champagne vinegar
pink

Best Cabbage Salad We have Ever Had

Photo by Craig Rippens  Marin Farmers Market

There are salads and then there are amazing salads.  Pick up the greens at the Farmers Market.

Grammy Browns Cabbage Salad


1 Head of Cabbage Shredded
1 Bunch of green onions chopped
1 TBSP Sesame Seeds
1/2 cup slivered almonds
1 Package of Organic Ramon Noodles crushed (they make them google it)


Dressing


1 cup virgin olive oil
8 TBSP Seasoned

Pear and Goat Cheese Salad

We love farmers markets (of course) and we love the farm tours where there are goats!  So what is better than goat cheese farmers market salad.


This one is super easy..



1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil whisked with 2 TBS of fresh lemon juice and a little bit of sugar added.
Thyme, pepper and a dab of Dijon mustard to taste in the dressing
A bowl of your favorite farmers market greens -

What to make with Tomatoes

It is that time of year. Tomatoes everywhere.  We love to pick them right off the vines and make a delicious salad.  Of course you can get heirloom tomatoes at your local farmers market too.

Here is our fav salad at the moment.



Fresh tomatoes
Basil or small sliced onions
Red onion 
Extra Virgin Olive Oil whisked together with 1/2 tsp lemon drizzle with a pinch of crushed thyme








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