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Showing posts with label fresh herbs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fresh herbs. Show all posts

Monday, October 17, 2016

Coconut Milk Ranch Dressing


ingredients
can full fat coconut milk (or coconut cream, refrigerated overnight, do not use light coconut milk)
tablespoons shallots (minced)
garlic cloves (minced)
tablespoons apple cider vinegar
tablespoons chopped fresh chives
1 1/2 tablespoons fresh parsley (chopped)
1 1/2 tablespoons fresh basil (chopped)
tablespoon fresh dill (chopped)
teaspoon sea salt
black pepper (to taste)

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Avacado Garlic Lime Dressing/Sauce

Hello all, this recipe has revolutionized the diet transformation I recently experienced and shared in a recent post.  I love all of the elements of this dressing and it is AMAZINGLY versatile.  I can use it in tuna salad, instead of mayonnaise... as sauce on my morning eggs... and dinner's fish, as a salad dressing...on burgers...instead of mayo on sandwiches (I am gluten free, so just on my burger "salad" that I make for me.)...on top of mexican ANYyything...phew, I just love it.  period.

To adjust the thickness if you prefer a more fluid dressing, add 1 teaspoon of water or olive oil.  Adding olive oil will add fat and calories, but not a tremendous amount.

To adjust for adding to tuna or chicken salad, add 1 Tbsp of Mayonnaise, this improves the texture for me, you can certainly try it without the mayo, but I prefer the tuna salad version with mayo added, it's a texture thing!

What you'll need:
1 Avacado
1.5 cups of cilantro or spinach  *I used spinach one time when I was out of cilantro... it was good!
1 Cup Daisy Light Sour Cream
3 whole cloves of garlic
Juice of 1/2 lime or 1 lime depending on your taste preference
salt and pepper to taste

**A note on a kitchen toy that I use a good bit! my Cuisinart Mini Prep, I have had this little baby for, gosh, 20 years or so, seriously, same machine, all these years!!  That's a good little kitchen tool.

Put all ingredients into either a blender, silver bullet, or as I do, a mini prep processor.  I blend until smooth.  Storing in small two ounce, (jello shot cups with lids).  They have 3 ounce sizes of these babies, I save them when I go to a restaurant and get dressing on the side.  Never can finish my whole salad and have to take it home, which includes my dressing on the side AND, booonusss, the little cup with the lid.  Save 'em, use 'em.


This makes it easy to grab and take one with my protein at lunch.

Here is the dressing used with my hamburger salad...








DIVERTITI!!

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Buy Some Fresh Herbs!

There is nothing like taking in the aroma of fresh herbs in the middle of cold winter to lift your winter blues!  There is simply something about having them in the house that makes me feel reignited in the kitchen, and in life in general!

The herbs outside are in dormant mode.  The basil is long gone, except in frozen pats of butter in the freezer.  My rosemary has turned from new, fresh, tender stalks to dark, forest green spires of old growth.  Cold cold cold!!!

The tender, aromatic, flavorful leaves take me right to a warm sunny day!  They spark ideas for recipes as a smile pours across my bright eyed face, "I've gotta go, get into the kitchen", I think to myself.  Making Italian today, starting with my sauce and I honestly don't know what direction this will take!  Lasagna, spaghetti, bowties??  I think I'll have a small sandwich before my workout while the sauce is cooking!  * Some fresh basil mayo included!!!  Enjoy everybody!