Spring Mix Strawberry Salad with Almond Pecan Brittle
It’s hard not to love this strawberry salad; it is a thing of beauty, with the beautiful play of red strawberries on the green salad and the luscious dressing glazing it all in pink. Not to mention the crunchy spiced brittle:! Everything combines so perfectly to create a truly sumptuous creation. It doesn’t seem enough to just call it a salad. It’s more like a poem on a plate. In any ase it has the distnction of being one of my all time favorite meals! Theres no component of this salad that wouldn’t steal the show all on its own but it’s the rosy dressing that really puts my sense…
Asian Slaw with Forbidden Rice
Besides trying to competely recreate old favorite dishes from a sheer sense of craving and nostalgia, one of my favorite pasttimes is rifling through vegan and vegetarian recipe books and finding recipes worthy of a raw redux. That’s essentially how this Asian slaw came to be. I love to just start going through the ingredients in any given recipe and subbing one ingredient for another in my head. Sometimes I just plain talk to myself. it’s spooky for everyone else. I’ll be sitting on the couch muttering as if incanting some strange spell, periodically running to the kitchen to check on whether or not certain things are in the refrigerator…
