Food Guide and Recipes

It is easy to turn a salad into a light meal. Whether for lunch, dinner, with family, friends or on your own, entree salads can be very handy and tasty. Here are some seafood recipe ideas to help you turn your salad into a meal. Tossed Tuna Salad is nothing like the “sandwich tuna salad” you might think of when you hear “tuna salad”. The other salad is also a seafood salad featuring Scallops and Spinach.

TOSSED TUNA SALAD

9 1/4-oz can tuna, chilled and drained
3 cups torn fresh spinach and/or lettuce
1 can (16-oz) bean sprouts, drained and rinsed
1 can (5-oz) water chestnuts, drained and sliced
2 tbsp sliced green onions, separated into rings
1/2 cup Italian salad dressing
1 medium tomato, cut into 6 wedges

In a large salad bowl, using a fork, break tuna into large pieces. Combine all ingredients except tomato and toss to mix well. Garnish with the tomato wedges. Continue reading ‘How to Make Quick and Easy Entree Salads #2’ »

Each year in a vegetable garden some things go well, some things are disappointing, and, rarely there is a total failure. To balance that there is the occasional surprising success. A salad made from freshly picked lettuce from the garden is a wonderful experience.

Seeds of more and different sorts of lettuce are available both in catalogues and in the stores and it
is a good idea to know what to look for. There are crisp head lettuces such as the popular iceberg; softer leaved Butterhead lettuce such as Buttercrunch, Romaine (or Cos) lettuce… a must for Caesar Salad and finally a big choice of leaf lettuces which include the oakleaf varieties. In all these categories there are both green leaved and red leaved varieties, grown together they give a wonderful display of colour both in the garden and on the salad plate. The red leaves however should be picked when young as they grow older they will turn green and may taste slightly bitter. Continue reading ‘With a pot of basil close by…even on your patio you will have all the makings of wonderful salads’ »