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Wedge Salad + Homemade Blue Cheese Dressing

March 19, 2015 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

Last weekend we took Jay's grandmother, Nanny, dinner. His mother and a few friends were there too, and when I asked what I should make I got the most southern answer there ever was:

"Well, Nanny just looooooves a wedge." You had to be there.

So a wedge I made. With a few updates, but mainly super duper classic. I'm a big fan of a wedge salad myself, even though they're massively overpriced in restaurants and kind of hard to eat? Like, I like all the flavors but CUT IT UP FOR ME IF IT COSTS $8. Seriously.

So you could chop this beforehand and make a chopped wedge, which would be contradictory but less effort for the eaters.

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Indian Lentil Salad + Yogurt Vinaigrette

February 2, 2015 by Lindsay 2 Comments

I just realized it's February.

Eff.

Did you watch the super bowl last night? Were you happy with the outcome? I worked alllllll day Saturday and got home at 1am from my show and basically spent yesterday cooking and eating carbs because those are my two favorite activities when I'm zonked. And then #football happened and now it's Monday and can't the Monday after SB be a national holiday? Let's work on that.

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Power Vegetarian Cobb Salad

January 20, 2015 by Lindsay 3 Comments

Vegetarian Cobb Salad with Quinoa and Power Greens is one of our favorite quinoa power bowls! Inspiration from a classic cobb salad but amped up with herby quinoa and a delicious roasted garlic vinaigrette. I love this for meal prep; store all the ingredients separately and cut the avocado right before serving.

Here's your recovery from that 3-day awful food and drink bender you just finished up last weekend.

You're welcome for that.

I know a lot of people for whom every Monday kind of turns into a New Year's resolution fest - are you like that? MONDAY is when I start to get my act together and be nicer and less dramatic and eat more quinoa.

Why Monday? I have no clue. Anyone who watched all the football on Sunday knows that Monday is just another recovery day that might involving laziness and fried foods, amirite?

Although, to be fair, I actually ate this on Saturday in an attempt to be slightly well behaved. And then washed it down with 948 light beers BUT THAT'S HEALTHY.

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Shrimp Caesar Endive Boats

September 29, 2014 by Lindsay 2 Comments

It's high time for a new Caesar dish.

I adore Caesar dressing, and I make it a lot for catering and life and Mondays. Especially now that Jay is a vegetarian-who-only-eats-animals-without-faces and also LOVES shrimp, this was a super great one to make this weekend.

It's my standard Caesar dressing, but instead of romaine lettuce like you'd expect, we went with endive, which is bitter and sexy and really sturdy, which I love for lettuce wraps. ALSO, it's smaller than romaine leaves, and I like having smaller things for pick-up salads like this.

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Balsamic Steak Salad + Roasted Garlic Blue Vinaigrette

August 12, 2014 by Lindsay 1 Comment

Welp, we kind of knew it was coming. You know how I went on and on about Poe's last week, and how I was alll OMG FIRST DAY LET'S DO IT, and, in standard form, I had lunch there the first TWO days we were at the beach.

Duh.

One of my absolute favorite things about Poe's menu is that in addition to regular burger cheeses you can add roasted garlic blue to any sandwich, which is just like what it sounds: roasted garlic mashed with blue cheese served in a little scoop on top of your sandwich and BOOM I'M DEAD LET'S GO BACK TOMORROW.

I don't know. The flavor combo is ridiculous. I like blue cheese but only in pretty small doses, and the addition of the roasted garlic really mellows the flavor. THEN I sold a few steak salads this week for catering and decided that the flavor combo really needed to be on top of a salad, and this vinaigrette was born.

Warning: I'm not done with roasted garlic blue ANYTHING yet. Just be prepared.

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