I don't remember where or when I first heard about this Tuscan bread and tomato salad, but in recent years I've grown really fond o...

Sometimes I see a recipe and I instantly know I want to try it out. Such was the case the chickpea salad I noticed in the April 2011 issue o...

The inspiration for this came partly from a traditional simple cucumber salad - and partly from the likes of green papaya salad. Ingredient...

For a couple of years I lived together with some friends in a house in California. On of them made - from time to time (and as I recall it o...

This is a quick attempt to copy a very nice bean-and-onion salad I tried at a vegetarian buffet not that long ago. Ingredients: - 4 cans of ...

Cucumber salad is a side dish that's fairly simple, but is best prepared at least a few hours in advance. I guess maybe you can even bu...

I guess I didn't think about it before I moved, but if anyone had asked me if I expected to be able to buy quinoa in Sweden, I might ha...

As I have been alluding to in several posts over the past couple of months another move was impending. As you might have guessed the recent ...

Based on a recipe we read in a newspaper we tried this over a year ago - the newspaper said it would be rich, and they weren't kidding. ...

I first had (and tried) the idea of adding roasted sunchokes to a salad while on vacation this past summer, but I never really got back to ...

When I recently made ' burning love ' I was reminded that I hadn't made the luxury version of mashed potatoes for a while (a rec...

To aid us in our quest for cooking more middle eastern food, we bought another book, Claudia Roden's New Book of Middle Eastern Food ,...

In no particular style (so far as I can tell) I made this dinner because it was Saturday night, and I felt like it - everything turned out q...

We had some left-over meat [1] and needed a side dish to go with it. Ingredients: - 500 g (1 lb) green beans - 1 onion - oregano - olive oil...

This is just a slight modification of this salad . Ingredients: - 500 g (1 lb) green beans - water - 2 tbsp white vinegar - 2 tbsp olive oil...

This is a really simple bean salad with green & white beans. Ingredients: - 500 g (1 lb) green beans - water - 2 tbsp read wine vinegar ...

When I first told one of my friends about the sunchokes , he asked me if they were anything like jícama . Shamed, I had to admit that althou...

Biksemad is Danish and translates roughly as "fiddled food" - I guess in America the term 'home fries' would cover the co...

Another simple thing that goes well with a variety of dishes. Ingredients: - 1 cucumber * - 1 lb plain yoghurt - 1 clove garlic - salt &...