I love main dish/starch/vegetable/salad type meals but sometimes you just need a quick, one-dish dinner. Taco Frito Salad to the rescue! You can whip this up in about 15 minutes or less and cleanup is minimal – another plus for busy nights. It’s also quite versatile. The version here is vegetarian but you could easily…
Low Calorie Vegetable Soup
Do you recall that old cabbage soup diet? It’s a seven day diet that has you eat very specific food items each day while also consuming as much cabbage soup as you desire. I’ll leave it to you to decide the merits (or lack) of that diet but there is something to be said for…
Vegetarian Recipes ~ An Ongoing Collection
A few years ago we spent a year eating a vegetarian diet. A friend had been diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer and was undergoing some alternative treatments, including a vegan diet. As a “meat and potatoes” guy, he was struggling with this. We decided to go vegetarian as a way to demonstrate our support. During…
Layered Salad…
Tonight was our “meatless Thanksgiving-type dinner” that I’ve been planning. We will temporarily set aside our vegetarianism on Thanksgiving and purchase an organic, humanely-raised turkey but in the meantime, I wanted to have a dinner with the usual Thanksgiving side dishes. One of my favorites is a layered salad. My dear friend Nancy gave me…