Recipes and Salads and Side Dishes Cucumbers, Recipe, Salad 7:12 am
2 medium cucumbers, thinly sliced
1/3 cup cider or white vinegar
1/3 cup water
2 Tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
Dill weed or parsley, if desired
Place cucumbers in small bowl. Shake remaining ingredients except dill weed/parsley. Pour over cucumbers. Cover and refrigerate at least 3hrs to blend flavors.
Drain salad, sprinkle with dill/parsley.
Recipe from Betty Crocker’s Cookbook.
Recipes and Salad dressings and Salads and Side Dishes Cabbage, Noodles, Recipe, Salad 8:39 am
This is one of my husband’s favourite salad. It’s pretty, a bit fancy, and easy to make! 🙂  When making this, add the dressing and noodles just before serving. As it sits, the noodles become soft. It’s best when crunchy, but leftovers never go to waste around here! 🙂
1 bag cabbage mix (I make my own: approximately 6 cups of chopped green and purple cabbage, and carrots)
2 bunches of green onions
1/2 cup slivered almonds (toasted 7-8 min. at 375F)
1/2 cup sunflower seeds
2 packages chicken Roman Noodles*, broken into small pieces
3/4 cup oil
1/2 cup sugar
1/3 cup vinegar
2 packages seasoning mix from noodles*
Toss first four ingredients together.
Mix oil, sugar, vinegar and seasoning packages together, pour over the first 4 ingredients and mix well.
*I stay away from MSG, which is included in roman noodle packages. So I use other plain minute noodles available in grocery stores, and use a Tbsp MSG-free chicken bouillon instead of the seasoning mix.
Kitchen Tips and Recipes and Salad dressings and Salads Kitchen Tip, Salad, Salad Dressings 7:22 am
While I’m showing pictures of a time my husband and I made salad for a crowd (100 people), we do this on a small scale in our home regularly as well! I love having pretty salad waiting in the fridge, ready to eat. We eat more salad this way! It’s appealing to the eyes, and the tummy. 🙂 It lasts about 4-5 days in the fridge.
We made this salad back in March, when we put together a spaghetti supper fundraiser. We had no bowl big enough to make this much lettuce (10 heads of iceburg!), so we put a clean tablecloth on the table and had fun! 😀
First, get all your ingredients ready. Then spread the chopped up the lettuce on a clean table (on a smaller scale, we put it in a large bowl or large ziploc bag).
Next, you spread all your other veggies. Here, we had chopped up purple cabbage, grated carrots, as well as diced peppers (green/yellow/red/orange). These veggies make the salad so appealing to the eyes, and so much more fun to eat! Yet, it’s simple veggies to chop up and add. 🙂
Then you mix it all up and bag it. 🙂  On a small scale at home, we fill up a large ziploc bag full of ready-made salad this way. We use whatever veggies we have on hand, which usually means some carrots and purple cabbage as a basic (adds nice colour). Other veggies we’ve added is broccoli, cauliflower, and cucumbers. You don’t want to add any tomatoes as they will make the salad soggy and it will go bad faster. Sliced cucumbers also don’t last as long, so be careful if you add those.
This is a great way of preparing salad for a crowd, of just for your own family at home. My husband and I often prepare the salad together. It gives us a chance to talk, while preparing enough salad to last us several days. 🙂 A huge time saver!
Check out these yummy homemade salad dressings!
Voeller Salad Dressing (our favourite!)
Catalina Salad Dressing
Rachel’s Vinaigrette
Asian Salad Dressing
Recipes and Salad dressings and Salads and Side Dishes Cabbage, Recipe, Salad, Secret Recipe Club 11:00 am
It’s Secret Recipe Club time again!! I always look forward to seeing which blog I’ll be assigned to. This month was a new experience! I was assigned to New Yorker by Heart which is a blog all in Dutch. I speak French, not Dutch, but thanks to google translate, I was able to browse around and find a yummy recipe. 🙂
I had some cabbage in the fridge and decided on the Coleslaw recipe, which looked yummy! And yup, we sure enjoyed it! 🙂  Thanks, New Yorker by Heart!
6-7 cups coleslaw mix: red and white cabbage (finely chopped), and carrots (coarsely grated)
Dressing:Â
2 1/2 Tbsp mayonnaise
2 Tbsp sugar
salt and pepper, to taste
2 tsp mustard
3/4 cup oil
1/4 cup vinegar
Combine mayonnaise, mustard, salt, pepper and sugar together. Whisk oil and vinegar in – until dressing is smooth.
Pour dressing over coleslaw and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4hrs (or, if you’re like me, it still tastes good done last minute!!!) 🙂
Recipes and Salads and Side Dishes Cabbage, Pease, Salad 7:30 am
This salad is called Red Ribbons and Green Pearls, from Kraft’s What’s Cooking magazine. In plain words though, it’s a delicious red cabbage and green peas salad. 🙂  Looks so pretty, tastes great, and is a nice variation to typical salads! The recipe is available here on their site.
Heat dressing in large skillet on medium-high heat. Add cabbage; cook 3 to 4 min. or until crisp-tender, stirring frequently. Add peas; cook and stir 2 min. or until heated through. Stir in bacon. Spoon into serving dish; top with cheese.
NOTE: You know what’s funny? I’m typing these directions and realized that I never read them when I made our salad! All I did was look at the ingredients, and mix it together. Raw, uncooked, and we ate it that way. It was delicious! It would have its own unique taste if cooked according to these directions. So try it either way, you’ll probably be pleased! 😉
Recipes and Salads and Side Dishes Pasta, Recipes, Salad 3:14 pm
I needed a salad to bring to a church campout, one that could last in the cooler for a day and still be just as yummy. So I threw these ingredients together and thought “Oooh! Looks really nice, and yummy!” Thankfully, I had paid attention to what I threw in, just in case I wanted to share it. 😉
Pasta salad is one of those recipes that is very versatile, so use what vegetables you have, use the type of salad dressing you like best, and enjoy!
700g pasta, approx.
1 grated carrot
2 green onions
1 can kidney beans, drained and rinced
1 cup corn
1/4 green pepper, diced
Salad dressing, to taste (about 1 1/2 – 2 cups)*
Salt and pepper, to taste
Cook and drain pasta. Add all other ingredients and mix. Add Voeller dressing generously as noodles will absorb some. Season to taste!
*Feel free to use whatever dressing you have on hand or like! I’m sure this salad would taste great with Italian, Ranch, a mixture of both, or a homemade dressing! We use a homemade Voeller dressing.
Also shared at The Home We’re Building!
Main Dishes and Recipes and Salads and Wheat and Whole Grains Pasta, Recipes, Salad, Wheat 7:56 am
This recipe is going to be for those who like to experiment, because I don’t have specific directions! 🙂  I still wanted to share it though, as it was so yummy! It was quick to make, and a perfect supper on a hot summer day.
1 box whole wheat macaroni noodles (300g)
2 cups peas
1 cup ham, diced
1 carrot, grated
2 green onions, sliced
Voeller salad dressing to taste*
Cook your noodles, drain. Get peas ready (either thaw them under hot water, or open a can!). Combine in large bowl the noodles, peas, grated carrot, and onions. Coat generously with salad dressing (the noodles will absorb quite a bit, so be generous). Either mix in ham, or spread on top on pasta salad.
Yu’ve now got yourself a quick, healthy, and yummy salad!
*Feel free to use italian dressing, or another favourite! Voeller is our favourite right now, so that’s what we used.
Posted on Tempt my Tummy Tuesday, Cast Party Tuesday, and What’s Cooking Wednesday!
Recipes and Salad dressings and Side Dishes Asian, Recipes, Salad, Salad Dressings 7:35 am
This is my sister’s salad dressing. I love yummy homemade dressings, especially in the summer when we tend to eat way more salads. For a unique salad dressing twist, try this one!
(Yields about 2 cups)
1/2 oz ginger
1/4 medium onion, cut in quarters
3/4 cup oil
1/4 cup vinegar
1/2 cup soya sauce
1 tsp tomato paste
1/8 tsp lemon, juiced
1 tsp garlic, minced
1/2 cup water
Soak ginger in cold water before removing outer skin. Cut in chunks. Combine all ingredients in food processor and blend until smooth. Refrigerate.
Recipes and Salad dressings and Side Dishes Catalina, Recipes, Salad, Salad Dressings 8:55 pm
This is a yummy salad dressing recipe from my sister. I love homemade salad dressings, completely made from ingredients I can pronounce! 🙂
(Makes 2 cups)
1 cup oil
1/2 cup vinegar
2/3 cup ketchup
1 cup sugar
2 tsp salt
1 dash paprika
1/2 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp celery seeds
1/2 tsp dry mustard
grated onions
Mix all ingredients in a blender. Refrigerate.
Shared at What’s Cooking Wednesday!
Recipes and Salad dressings and Side Dishes Recipes, Salad, Salad dressing 7:15 am
We really love salads in this house, especially now that spring has come! I look forward to growing some in our own garden this summer. This is our favourite salad dressing for the time being. Josiah ate 3/4 of a head of lettuce when I first made it! It’s that yummy. 🙂  Enjoy!
Voeller Dressing (adapted)
3/4 cup olive oil
2 Tbsp soya sauce
2 Tbsp honey (I used agave)
2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
1 Tbsp minced garlic
1 Tbsp thyme
1/2 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp dry mustard
Whisk all ingredients together. Stores very well in the fridge.
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