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Grilled Vegetable Salad

July 12, 2015 by Kay Leave a Comment

Enjoy this savory vegetable salad as a side dish, or as a light & healthy lunch or dinner!

Grilled Vegetable Salad is packed full of your favorite vegetables that are grilled and topped with a delicious vinaigrette and crumbled blue cheese.

You may fall in love with salads once again once you try my recipe for Grilled Vegetable Salad. A new twist for a salad; 1. grill the vegetables and 2. don’t include lettuce.

This is a nice summer salad because chances are you have fired up the grill to add your favorite meat and now your side dish can be delicious Grilled Vegetable Salad topped with a home made vinaigrette and blue cheese crumbles.

I receive a vegetable share from a local organic farm every year, so the vegetables I chose for this salad came in my share for the week. By all means, feel free to mix up the vegetables you use in this salad. You could easily use corn, peppers, asparagus, summer squash, fennel, snow peas, etc.

Enjoy!

Grilled Vegetable Salad

Rating: 51

Yield: 4-6 Servings

Grilled Vegetable Salad

Ingredients

1 medium zucchini, cut into chunks
1 medium head broccoli, cut into chunks
2 medium sweet onions, quartered, I used Walla Walla
1 bunch green beans, halved
1 pint grape tomatoes
1 tbsp. olive oil
1/2 cup blue cheese crumbles
For the Vinaigrette:
1/4 cup olive oil
juice of 1 lemon
1 tsp. dijon mustard
1-2 tsp. honey
1/4 tsp. salt
dash of pepper

Instructions

Add the vegetables and 1 tbsp. of olive oil to a bowl and toss to coat.
Add the vegetables to a grill pan and grill on medium high heat for 10 - 12 minutes or until the vegetables are cooked through.
For the vinaigrette, add all the ingredients to a bowl and whisk to combine.
Once the vegetables are done grilling, add them to a bowl and let rest for 5 minutes. Toss in the blue cheese crumbles. Add the vinaigrette and toss to coat.

Notes

Adapted from A Family Feast.

http://www.lovefoodwillshare.com/grilled-vegetable-salad/

Zucchini

Walla Walla Onions

Broccoli

Green Beans

Blue Cheese Crumbles

Grape Tomatoes

Vinaigrette

Broccoli Corn Casserole

January 6, 2015 by Kay Leave a Comment

Broccoli Corn Casserole is a comforting side dish that is creamy and cheesy. Your family will fall in love with it, even the kids!

I have a lot of frozen corn in my freezer, we had an abundance in our garden so we ended up cutting it off the cob and freezing it in pint sized bags. It’s delicious and sweet. I have been dreaming up new recipes to use up some of the frozen corn and Broccoli Corn Casserole is one of those recipes.

This recipe comes together with a sauce that starts with creaming some of the frozen corn and then you add in some eggs, flour, seasonings and cheese. You bake the Broccoli Corn Casserole until the cheese is melted and bubbly.

Enjoy!

Broccoli Corn Casserole

Ingredients

2 – 16 ounce bags frozen corn, thawed
2 – 12 ounce bags broccoli, thawed
3 eggs, beaten
4 tbsp. flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 tsp. garlic salt
½ tsp. paprika
1 ½ cups cheddar cheese, shredded

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 2.5 quart baking dish with cooking spray and set aside.
In a blender, add 2 cups of the thawed corn and pulse until creamed. Add the creamed corn to a bowl and add in the eggs, flour, salt, garlic salt and paprika. Stir to combine.
Add in the rest of the corn, broccoli and 1 cup of the cheddar cheese.
Spread the mixture into the baking dish. Spread the rest of the cheese on the top of the mixture.
Bake for 45 minutes and serve.

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Bake until the cheese is melted.

Broccoli Corn Casserole

Every bite is delicious.

Layers of Goodness

Broccoli Corn Casserole

Your family will love this dish!

Hearty Vegetable Pasta Sauce

October 16, 2014 by Kay Leave a Comment

Hearty Vegetable Pasta Sauce is packed full of fresh vegetables and is cooked low and slow to become a very delicious sauce to use in all of your favorite pasta dishes.

This recipe for Hearty Vegetable Pasta Sauce makes a large batch but it can easily be frozen for later use. I always like to have this on hand in the freezer so on those nights or weekends when I have run out of time to make dinner I pull out this sauce and make a quick pasta dish.

This recipe is also a good way to get extra vegetables into a kid’s diet. You will find tomatoes, onions, celery, peppers and carrots in this sauce. I add wine and chicken bouillon to make it taste like it cooked all day long, it has a real deep flavor full of deep herb flavor. You will love it!

Use this in your favorite pasta dish, lasagna, spaghetti & meatballs, chicken & parmesan…..the list could go on forever.

Enjoy!

Hearty Vegetable Pasta Sauce

Rating: 51

Yield: 12-15 Servings

Hearty Vegetable Pasta Sauce

Ingredients

4 tablespoons olive oil
2 large onions, chopped
3 medium sweet peppers, chopped (any color)
3 carrots, diced
2 stalks celery, diced
4 cloves garlic, minced
10 - 12 cups ripe tomatoes, diced (I remove the seeds from mine)
2 tbsp. dried oregano
1 cup red wine, I used Chianti
1 cup tomato paste
1/3 cup fresh parsley, chopped
1/2 cup fresh basil, chopped
2 tsp. ground fennel (optional)
2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. black pepper
¼ cup brown sugar
2 chicken bouillon cube
Water, optional

Instructions

Chop all the vegetables into small pieces.
In a large pot over medium high heat, add the olive oil. Add the onions, peppers, carrots, celery and garlic. Cook for 10 minutes. Add the chopped tomatoes. Cook for 10 more minutes.
Add the oregano, wine, tomato paste, parsley, basil, ground fennel, salt, pepper, brown sugar and bouillon cubes.
Bring mixture to a boil, reduce heat to low and cook for 1 hour, stirring occasionally so the sauce doesn't stick to the bottom. If the sauce is to thick you can add water to the sauce. It will depend on how ripe your tomatoes are if you need to add some water.

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Chop the vegetables

Chop the tomatoes

The sauce slow cooks

Hearty Vegetable Pasta Sauce

Thick & Delicious

Hearty Vegetable Pasta Sauce

Sauteed Squash & Onions

September 8, 2014 by Kay Leave a Comment

Sauteed Squash & Onions is a super simple side dish using fresh vegetables and fresh basil and it comes together in a jiffy.

Excuse the pun, but it seems zucchini and squash is growing out of my ears lately. It is that time of year when I can’t keep up with the amount of squash I receive in my CSA share. I have a couple of favorite recipes I like to make but I wanted to come up with a simple side dish to utilize some of the squash.

Sauteed Squash & Onions is mighty tasty with the flavors of fresh basil and season salt and goes perfectly along side some grilled tuna or salmon, chicken or a thick steak. Feel free to use thyme or oregano in place of the basil if you would like.

One tip if you have a lot of zucchini/squash on hand, grate it and store 2 cups in ziplock bags in the freezer. During the winter make your favorite zucchini bread or cake and use the frozen zucchini in the recipe.

Enjoy!

Sauteed Squash & Onions

Rating: 41

Yield: 4-6 Servings

Sauteed Squash & Onions

Ingredients

2 tbsp. olive oil, divided
1 medium onion, sliced think
3 medium or 2 large zucchini or squash, sliced thin
1 tsp. season salt
2 tbsp. fresh basil, chopped

Instructions

Add 1 tbsp. olive oil to a fry pan and heat over medium high heat.
Add the onion and fry for 3-4 minutes, until the onions start to soften. Transfer the onions to a plate and set aside.
Add 1 tbsp. olive oil to the fry pan and place back on the burner. Add the zucchini/squash. Sprinkle with the season salt. Saute for 3-4 minutes. Add the onions back into the pan. Continue to fry until the zucchini/squash has softened.
Sprinkle with the basil and serve.

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Slice the squash.

Saute the onions.

Saute the squash and sprinkle with season salt.

Sauteed Squash & Onions

Sprinkle with fresh basil.

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