Lettuce Salad with feta cheese

When I first moved to the US and when it was confirmed that it was Wisconsin, the first thing that got me hooked to the place was the cheese. Well it was a tough battle between the weather and the cheese. The cheese dragged me to the place and the weather kinda wanted me to get shooed away. So the cheese, Wisconsin specializes in Cheese and the cheesecurds here are the best. Ever since I came here, I have been eating cheese to my hearts content and I have been happy with the local cheese. So my salads and pastas have always got an extra helping of cheese and that is how I love them these days.

After all that eating and bingeing all through the holidays and there after, which is clearly visible in my blog, I have decided to go salads and green smoothies and here is a very simple salad for a start.

~*What U Need*~ Iceberg lettuce - 1 head, rinsed and dried Tomato - 1, deseeded and cubed Onions - 1/2 sliced Olives - 1/4 cup, chopped Feta cheese - 2oz, crumbled For the dressing Lemon juice - 1 tbsp White wine vinegar - 1/2 tsp Olive oil - 2-3 tbsp Salt, pepper - to taste Honey - 1 tsp {Mix everything and whisk well} How I Made it: Chop the lettuce into chunks. Mix lettuce, tomato, onions, olives in a salad bowl. Top with feta cheese. When serving drizzle the dressing, toss well. Serve with a healthy grating of parmesan cheese.

Serve with some wine!!!
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Mediterranean Quinoa Salad | Quinoa Recipes | Healthy foods

Quinoa is one among the world's healthiest food. It was one among the many to-try things that I had wanted to try when I moved to the US. But its taken me time and that too a long one but as they say better late than never. I gave in last week and bought a packet of qunioa from my local grocery store. I love the Mediterranean flavors a lot and I thought of making a simple salad to start with it. I served it with some Jamaican Jerk spiced roasted chicken and it was a filling meal on the whole.

~*What U Need*~ Quinoa - 1/2 cup Water - 1 cup Red onion - 2 tbsp, chopped Lemon - 1/2, juiced Olives - 1/8 cup, chopped Red and yellow peppers - 1/4 cup, chopped Extra virgin olive oil - 1 tbsp Cucumber - 1 cup, peeled and diced Tomatoes - 1/2 cup, deseeded and cubed Feta cheese - 1/3 cup, crumbled Chickpeas / Garbanzo - 1/2 cup, cooked till soft Salt and pepper - to season Avocado slices and spur cream - to serve How I Made it: Rinse quinoa and cook as per package instructions with salt. Then fluff with a fork and set aside in a large mixing bowl to cool. Prep the vegetables. Add everything to the quinoa, season with salt and toss. Add the olive oil and feta cheese and toss gently. Adjust seasoning as you taste.

Top with avocado slices and sour cream and serve!!!

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Bread Omelette Sandwich with Black Olives

College days are etched in everyone's memories as the happiest moments in life. I am no less. I still remember, cherish and laugh at the good old times we had. Friends have become Aunties to each others' kids much to the wrath of the so called "Aunties". What a change of events. Girls who had a carefree life with little thought about future and marriage, have now matured handling family problems and more than that have become mothers. Those who were kids by heart are now mothers.

I still remember the days when we finished our classes and walked as a gang towards the college canteen to take down the entire place with our laughter. Times are there when the pack has been shooed away by the canteen people.
Our funds were low but we didn't care. What were&are friends for. Ur money is my money, ur food is my food.. this was our policy. Can you tell me any place where you get a bread omelette for 5rs and a masal dosa for 7rs? Yes, we got it in our canteen and 10 ppl would have a hearty lunch at a cost of 50rs. I can talk, talk for hours about my friends, college, canteen, even about the pavement and stories and combined studies we shared there. So let me stop here.
So what does the whole blah-blah got to do with a sandwich post. I was inspired to try bread omelette this way from the ones available in my college canteen. They usually place the bread slices on top of the half-done egg so that they stick together. I tried their technique and it came out too well.

~*What U Need*~
White / Wheat bread slices - 2
Egg - 1
Onion - 1(small)
Green chilli - 1
Black olives(pitted) - 1 tbsp
Salt - to taste
Oil

How I Made it:
Chop the onions, and chilli finely. Mix with egg, olives and salt. Whisk together.
Heat a tawa, add few drops of oil and pour the egg mixture on to this. When cooked around 75%, place two slices of bread as shown below.

After 2 mins, flip it over. Flip again so that one bread slice tops the other. Cover and toast till evenly brown on both sides.

Serve with ketchup.

Sending this to Ramya's ABC Series: Egg recipes.

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Red Cabbage Mixed Salad

As I had already mentioned I am a diehard fan of any kinda salads these days. I prefer having a refreshing bowl of salad and a glass of fruit juice to the daily dinner menu. And huss also joins hands with me these days. So we just go chop!! chop!!
Making salads has given me the option to explore many un-tried veggies, fruits and salad dressings. I just play with all the ingredients in hand and am enjoying it.
One such veggie is the red cabbage. I have seen red cabbage many times but was not sure what to do with it and hence usually ignored it. But after I read a few articles on its usage in salad, I grabbed some when I went for my next grocery shopping.

~*What U Need*~

Red cabbage(cut into chunks) – 1 cup
Boiled corn kernels – ¼ cup
White cabbage(cut into chunks) – ½ cup
Cucumber(de-seeded and cut into chunks) – ¼ cup
Tomato(Medium) - 1
Carrot(julienned) – ¼ cup
Capsicum(julienned) – ¼ cup
Pitted black olives – 2 tbsp

For the Salad Dressing
Apple cider Vinegar – 1 tsp
Mayonnaise – 2 tbsp
Olive oil – 2 tbsp
Salt - to taste
Pepper – a pinch

How I made it

De-seed and dice the tomato into cubes.
Add all the ingredients mentioned and give it a stir.

Refreshing bowl of salad is ready.

Serve immediately. Sit back and enjoy!!!

Though the name suggests Red cabbage, I would say that the overall color of the veggie falls under Purple. So off this goes to Food Palatte Series Purple held at Torview

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Green salad with Sweet Corn and Olives | Awards Again

I am obsessed with salads these days. I go to any restaurants and you see me looking at the salad recipes available. Nothing can beat a fresh refreshing salad with a homemade simple dressing in one hand and “Confessions of a Shopaholic” in the other hand :). This is one of my favie mainly because it includes sweet corn and olives.

~* What U Need*~
Cabbage – ½ cup
Lettuce leaves - 10
Green capsicum – ¼ cup
Boiled Corn kernels – ½ cup
Pitted black olives – 2 tbsp
Apple cider Vinegar – 1 tbsp
Mayonnaise – 2 tbsp
Olive oil – 2 tbsp
Salt - to taste
Pepper – a pinch
Red wine – 1 tbsp (optional)

How I Made It
Chop the cabbage, lettuce and green capsicum to a not so big or not so small size.
In a large bowl, add the chopped veggies, olives, vinegar, mayonnaise, olive oil, salt, pepper and red wine.


Give it a stir.
Serve immediately. Sit back and relish the freshness.

We had this with a glass of fig n honey milkshake and it was divine.

Now moving on to the awards...
Shoba of FoodMazaa passed on her very own Food Mazaa award and Ambreen of Simply Sweet N Savory again passed on this award.

Akila of Learning to Cook passed on the participation award for the event - Dish Name starts with 'G'

Jabeen of Jabeen's corner passed on a whole bunch of awards.

Ambreen of Simply Sweet N Savory has passed on a whole basket of awards :)... Thanks sweetie...

Snegithi of En Iniya Illam shared this cool award...

Thanks a lot dearies and I apologize for taking such a long time to post all the awards. All these awards mean a lot to me.
I have already penned moused down 7 crazy facts about me here.

The rules of the Awards are ..
1) Accept, and post them on ur blog with the link to the person who gave it to u.
2) Pass it to 15 other blogger friends to keep the ball rolling.
3) Let the nominated person know about his/her award

And now... whew.... the difficult part. Passing on the awards to fellow bloggers...
I would like to give it to...

Geetha of En Samayal Araiyil
Preety of Preety's kitchen
Cook from Doha of Experiments with taste
South Indian Home
Love2cook
Aruna of Veggie Paradise
Nandhini of Nandhini's food
Priya sreeram of Bon Appetit
TreatNTrick
Jeyashri of Jeyashri's kitchen
Prathima of Prats corner
Ammu Mohan of Rasi's Veg Bites
Menaga of Sashiga
Saraswathi of Saras's Kitchen
Ananda of A pinch of Love

I am sorry but I am limited to numbers... But everyone of my dear blogger friends deserve these awards... Next time I am not gonna pick names... I have decided guys...

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