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Japanese Salad with Ginger Dressing.

Japanese Salad with Ginger Dressing

Japanese Salad with Ginger Dressing. Enjoy this orange dressing on romaine or iceberg lettuce for a classic Japanese restaurant-style salad, but other vegetables may be added as well. It is the salad you usually find in...

Sausage Biscuit Breakfast Bake

Sausage Biscuit Breakfast Bake. This a very tasty and easy savory breakfast pastry that can also be made with fruit for an equally good sweet version. I like the bit of sweet taste with the maple syrup, but it is fine...

Broiled Grapefruit with Cardamom

Broiled Grapefruit with Cardamom. This is best if you use freshly crushed cardamom seeds, but the whole pods of whole seeds may be hard to find. The prepackaged cardamom powders are good, but not as flavorful. You can...

Guny's Slaw.

Guny’s Slaw

Guny’s Slaw. When Bhikkhu Gunaratana stayed at the temple, I would make this salad for him. He liked it so much and could eat so much of it, I named it for him. It is a road map type of recipe that can go in...

Potato Salad with Lovage and Lox

Potato Salad with Lovage and Lox. Another lovage recipe that turned out very well. The original was made with bacon, but it is very good with lox. You can leave out the lox for a vegan version, but I would add a drop or...

Mushroom, Lovage, and Wild Rice Soup

Just made this wonderful soup with the lovage I now have growing inside. I had the lovage in a pot on my patio, but the 107 degree heat caused it to wilt so badly, I needed to harvest the limp leaves and bring the rest...

Spring Salad

Spring Salad. Very simple salad made with whatever happened to be in my fridge. It has just the right combination of sour, sweet, and crunchy. This version uses a little canned chicken and cheese, but you can also make...

Avocado, Beet, and Cucumber Salad

Avocado, Beet, and Cucumber Salad. I just made up this salad and enjoyed it so much I wanted to share it with you. The picture above is made with yogurt instead of oil and without microgreens. My indoor salad garden is...

Pickled Lemon or Other CItrus

Lemon Pickle. I just made this and am using it on many things including the “Avocado, Beet, Cucumber Salad” shown above. It is very refreshing as a snack in cold plain yogurt. No sugar needed. I have seen this for sale...