My life. One recipe at a time.
Here I present to you another case of not leaving well enough alone, because you KNOW I can’t help taking perfectly good recipes and mashing them up together. And I have to say, it doesn’t always work, but when it does work.., well, yum! And that was happily the case with these Caesar salad burgers. Your classic hamburger, covered not in ketchup and pickles but with a generous topping of Caesar salad and parmesan cheese.
Ready to shake up your burger, Caesar salad-style? Let’s make it!
I have an uneasy relationship with egg salad. One the one hand, I love eggs in any way shape or form (my current favorite form is eggs in clouds!) but when you start introducing mayonnaise into the mixture…well, I start to get a little antsy. I recently made peace with a mayo-based form of egg salad with my recipe for torn egg salad, but during our last round of the Whole 30, a lightbulb went off in my head.
What if I swapped out the mayo for the healthy, creamy goodness of mashed avocado? And what if I zipped up that mashed avocado by adding a few ingredients that took it into guacamole territory? Well, let’s just say that egg salad and I are now besties. Let’s make it!
Oh, how I love this easy and elegant recipe for bistro salad! If you can fry an egg (and click here for my perfect fried eggs recipe!) then you can make this lovely, swanky number that is light and delicious and colorful and ready in two shakes. This is one of those dinners (and sometimes lunches) that I always have on call for those days when I have run out of clever ideas for what to make for dinner…or those nights when whatever clever idea I DID have on the menu happens to land on One Of Those Days. Ready for some bistro salad deliciousness? Let’s make it!
I’m having a torrid fling with ramen noodles lately. Yup, those 39 cent packets of evil deliciousness that we all lived on the first year we graduated from college because we couldn’t afford anything else. For years after that era in my life, I didn’t even think about ramen, much less buy it and eat it. Until recently, when for some reason I developed deep ramen yearning that led to this cheesy ramen soup, and then recently to this dish of ramen topped with a cheeseburger, a little bacon, some chopped greens and a drizzle of sesame oil over the whole thing. Yup. I’m at Defcon One, ramen-wise. Let’s make it!
This recipe for flipped chicken Caesar salad is my new chicken salad crush, and here’s why. You know how when you order a chicken Caesar salad and it comes with tons of the salad on the bottom and strips of chicken on the top, with tons of dressing and great big croutons? I love the taste of all those things, but to that arrangement I say NOPE.
Nope to the big croutons, nope to the lots and lots of dressing, and nope to the lettuce being the star of the show. So…I flipped it. The chicken is now a lovely whole golden sautéed chicken breast and the lettuce is the garnish. There is just the right amount of dressing, and the croutons are crispy little breadcrumbs, all covered in delectable shavings of parmesan cheese. It just goes to show you what can happen when you turn things upside down…let’s make it!
I love this easy recipe for lettuce wrap tacos any time of year, but around this time of year it becomes an Actual Necessity in my house. More on that in a little bit, but as you can probably see from the picture, this is quick and easy and light version of tacos that features your favorite spicy, drippy, delicious taco meat, but instead of taco shells it’s nestled in bright crunchy lettuce leaves. Some sweet cherry tomatoes, some chopped scallions for a little bite and of course a generous handful of buttery avocado, and you are in healthy taco heaven. Let’s make it!
