Roast Tomato Salad

~~~~~~~ I enjoy doing cross stitch, cooking, baking and entertaining and hubby and I love our wines! Some of my pet peeves are bad hygiene, rudeness, bad manners, laziness and people who litter. My favorite cookbook is my Betty Crocker Cookybook. I’ve had a copy since I was about 12 and it was falling apart.

Cucumber Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette

Ingredients: 1 tablespoon Fresh Rosemary ; finely chopped 2 tablespoon Balsamic vinegar 2 tablespoon olive oil 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 1 Cucumber ; with peel, washed and thinly sliced 1 pinch Cracked black pepper

Stone Fruit Salad

Happy Monday friends!  I hope you had as wonderful of a weekend as I did — I was visiting Michigan!  Do you know how beautiful it is there? Go visit! #PureMichigan!  Well, after a weekend in a state known for their cherries, I had to bring you this simple, throw-together-in-a-pinch  stone fruit salad! Summer is stone

Kale Greek Salad

Ingredients: * 2 tbsp olive oil * 1 garlic clove, minced * 1/2 tsp dried mint (optional) * 1/2 tsp dried oregano (optional) Instructions: Whisk ingredients of the dressing together until well combined Combine in a large bowl with the kale, massage the dressing into the kale for a couple of minutes until the kale

Indian Cucumber Salad

As a toddler, my nic-name was Pompom (my Poppy had a golf hat with a pompom and it was one of my first words, and it stuck as my nic name).  My Poppy has long since passed, but I fondly remember him every time I log on.  I’m a stay at home mum of four

Tomato Salad

I live in Rockville, MD which is 20 minutes north of Washington DC. I love to cook, read, go bike riding with my Hubby, Salsa dancing with Hubby, cook out with all our friends and travel. My favorite cookbook is one my mother wrote, From My Grandmother’s Kitchen by Viviane Miner. It is a Safardic

Sliced Tomato Salad

This Sliced Tomato Salad celebrates the tomato and all of it’s deliciousness. Makes a wonderful starter or side to any meal. Ingredients: * 1 large ripe tomato * olive oil * balsamic vinegar * black pepper * salt Instructions: Slice tomato into ¼ – ½ inch slices and place on a platter. Drizzle olive oil