Shaved Brussels Sprouts Salad
Who knew Brussels sprouts tasted good in their raw form? This shaved Brussels sprouts salad is filled with apples, pomegranates, walnuts, and poppy seeds and surprisingly tastes better the next day. This is a sneak peek recipe from the Real Food First Winter Edition program – be sure to check it out if you want […]
Grilled Corn and Snap Pea Salad
Have you ever purposely not learned how to do something just so you can claim you don’t know how to do it? Or given someone compliments on a job well done, just so they continue with it? Jon and I play these tricks on each other often, but at this point, the secret is out. We tell […]
Heirloom Tomato Peach Salad
At 4pm on the dot, you would find my mom in front of the TV, watching Ina make a beautiful meal for her Jeffrey, followed by Giada and her V-neck shirts cooking up an Italian feast. At the time, I didn’t really understand the fascination my mom had with cooking shows, but I’d occasionally relax […]
Spanish Rice
Switzerland is giving us a whole day off to celebrate Cinco de Mayo! Isn’t that nice?? Turns out its actually Ascension Day, and everyone gets a random Thursday off because of it. So, we are going to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, like Americans do…with a lot of Mexican food and margaritas. I’m asked to make […]
Minty Asparagus Salad
Along with my beloved yellow daffodils, there is one more thing that just screams “Spring!” to me. Can you guess? Probably. Considering the title and the pictures that are plastered all over. But I’ll tell you anyways… Asparagus! Asparagus has about a one-month time span in this neck of the woods, so when it comes, I […]
Mango Shrimp Salad
I went a whole year without buying shrimp in the grocery store, even though I used to eat it at least once a week. I had two bad experiences with the frozen shrimp here and I was done. Bad fish is bad news. I was convinced that because Switzerland is landlocked, they must not be […]
