Summer Salads #3 — Tomato, Basil, and Zucchini

When Ambar brought home a Zucchini plant from the nursery (“we’re only planting one this year”), it turned out to be three plants all intertwined. So, we’re getting about a zucchini a day. I’ve been sautéing it, adding it to frittata, and baking it but it’s still the green Sorcerer’s Apprentice.

Then I ran [...]

Summer Salads #2 — Balela

It started with an email from Ambar:

I vote Balela for dinner

 

So I pulled out a can each of cooked chickpeas and black beans, dumping them into a colander and rinsing first; minced a quarter of a red onion, three cloves of garlic, and some parsley; cut up a tomato; and [...]

Summer Salads #1

With the temperature climbing over 100°F daily, we’ve turned to cooling summer salads here at Sagehenge*. The first salad I have to share is the incredibly tasty, cooling, and simple “Mediterranean salad”:

Ingredients

3 Cucumbers, peeled, quartered lengthwise, and sliced thinly 8-10oz of cherry or grape tomatoes, quartered 1/4-1/2 red onion, sliced very thinly [...]