Tomato-Chickpea Salad

30 Thursday May 2019

Posted by More Time at the Table in Meatless Mondays, Mozzarella, Pie, Pie 101, Rhubarb, Rhubarb Pie, Salad dressings, Salads

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Cherry Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Feta, Grilling, Kalamata Olives, No Cook, Olives, Sides, Summer, Tomatoes

If the goal of feeding folks in the summer is to keep the cooking and the heat at a minimum, I’m in. As my friend Jodie says, “I turn into a troll when the temperature gets above 65 degrees F.” Even it it’s not terribly hot outdoors — or is, in fact, lovely — my house seems to turn into a hot box on June 1 every year. Of course that’s just one reason Americans grill (the contemporary version of the separate summer kitchen) and eat outdoors anytime we can. The other is we’re inordinately attached to kicking back for three months every year. Or we say we are anyway.

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20 Main Dish Salads to Continue Your Healthy January Adventure

11 Friday Jan 2019

Posted by More Time at the Table in Chicken, Chicken Salad, Dinner Salads, Fish, Fish and Seafood, Salad, Salad dressings, Salads, Salmon, Salmon Salad, Shrimp, Whole Meal Salads

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Coconut Pork Salad, Dinner Place, Eggs, Entree Salads, Leftovers, Main Dish Salads, Pork, Steak, Steak Cobb, Weight Watchers, WW

{print recipe for Kalamata Egg Salad with Charred Red Peppers}

If you’re not trying to get healthy this month, you might still want to read this week’s post featuring main dish salads. Even if all you managed to accomplish was to clear out your entire cellar’s store of Pinot Noir but skipped every red, green, and silver Hershey’s kiss you encountered (and so didn’t gain an ounce in December), you could drum up interest in hefty, heart-warming and filling whole meal salads–if nothing else but to figure out what to do with leftover steak (leftover steak?!), those couple of lonely pork chops, an oh-so-sad single portion of salmon, one languishing chicken breast with wing attached, or perhaps only a drawer full of vegetables and cheese with little else to recommend them but a poached egg or two and maybe a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc.

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25+ Scrumptious Dishes to Jump Start Your Healthy January

03 Thursday Jan 2019

Posted by More Time at the Table in Chicken, Egg whites, Eggs, Fish, Fish and Seafood, Salad, Salad dressings, Salads, Salmon, Salmon Salad, Slow cooker

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Diet, Health, Instant Pot, New Year's, New Years Resolutions, Weight Watchers, WW

Basil Sole on Greens with Parmesan-Tomato Salad … {print recipe}

Every year on January 2, many people around the world wake up knowing they’re just one cookie away from a bigger pants size. Gyms memberships rise, WW (Weight Watchers) Workshop chairs fill up, and dog walkers double their pet’s exercise along with their own. I began WW for the 4th (5th?) time just before the start of December, so while I didn’t wait until after the Christmas fudge tin was empty, I did move into this arena right upon finishing the last piece of pumpkin pie with whipped cream.

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Steak Salad with Frizzled Shallots, Grilled Brussels Sprouts, and Sweet Potato Chips

05 Thursday Jul 2018

Posted by More Time at the Table in Potato Chips, Salad dressings, Salads, Steak

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Beef, Blue Cheese Dressing, Grilling, Sweet Potatoes

Correction: If you printed this recipe on July 5, there was a mistake in the ingredients for the blue cheese salad dressing. It is corrected today, July 6. Thanks and apologies.

Mid-summer heat. I’m doing a slow burn while the garden is drooping perilously and the grass is being watered daily simply to survive. 4th of July is over and maybe you, like me, are burger-ed/brat-ed out. The thrill of the grill might be gone or at least waning. It’s the time that stretches between holidays without another one in sight until Halloween unless you count that last gasp of summer Labor Day BBQ. I kind of like that part.

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Best Summer Sides from More Time at the Table

21 Monday May 2018

Posted by More Time at the Table in Rice, Risotto, Salad, Salad dressings, Salads, Salsa, Sides, Spring, Squash, Summer, Tomatoes

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Asparagus, Beach Cooking, Broccoli, Cherry Tomatoes, Cold Soup, Cooking at the Cabin, Corn, Fourth of July, Green Beans, Green Salad, Grill Class, Grilling, kale, Labor Day, Lettuce, Memorial Day, Potato Salad, Potatoes, Tortellini, Tortellini Salad

Grilled Zucchini and Corn Salad

This week marks the beginning of weekend picnics, warm holiday get togethers, nights in the backyard, weeks at the beach, days at the cabin, and all kinds of thrilling grilling on your balcony or patio! For fun, I ran through my TOP FAVORITE original summer sides on More Time at Table and brought them all together in one place just before Memorial Day. I’ll keep perusing my files and as I find other luscious things I think you’d like, I’ll stick them in. Be cool!

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Coconut Pork Salad

04 Thursday Jan 2018

Posted by More Time at the Table in Pork Chops, Salads

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Coconut Pork Salad, Rosie and Tucker

There’s nothing like going away. And little as wonderful as returning home.

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“Greek” Steak Salad with Quinoa

22 Tuesday Aug 2017

Posted by More Time at the Table in Gluten-Free, Salads, Steak

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Eclipse, Rosie

If you’re lucky enough to have leftover steak, you’re lucky enough. At our house, red meat is well-loved, but kept in its healthy place. So we invest in a good quality product and eat it usually only once a week. If there’s a little left, and it’s steak, there’s usually a next day steak sandwich for my husband, Dave. Occasionally, though, there’s more than a little left and I make a steak salad or tacos for us both. Maybe steak and eggs if we’ve been really good. A tiny bite for the pups could be forthcoming, too.

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Shrimp on Tomato Risotto with Kale Salad

14 Monday Aug 2017

Posted by More Time at the Table in Fish and Seafood, Rice, Risotto, Salads, Shrimp

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kale

Out of all the things folks say to me about making dinner, the most common might be, “I never know what to fix.” It occurs to me that while those are the words coming out of their mouths, the problem might not be that exactly. It might be a question of, “I know how to make tacos, but not enchiladas, so I buy the ingredients and cook tacos. A lot. I don’t have the time to learn enchiladas. Other days I make grilled boneless chicken breasts, salad, chili, mac and cheese, and hamburgers because I don’t need a recipe.” Or…could be they didn’t plan a week’s meals and shop for the plan. We’ve all been there.