My Top 10 Summer Salads I don't know about you but I love summer! Love it! Love, Love, Love, Loooooove it! I love everything about it, especially barbeques and for me the best part about the barbeque is the sides. Enter salads. My top 10 Summer Salads. Strawberry and Feta Salad with Walnuts Tangy Broccoli and Apple ...
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Bruschetta Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms
Bruschetta Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms Meaty, delicious, guilt-free portobello mushrooms roasted to perfection and then topped with fresh, garlicky bruschetta and salty, briny feta cheese. Originally posted on 28 March, 2018! ...
Catalina Pasta Salad
Catalina Pasta Salad Before “our new normal” we would have a family bbq for each of our children’s birthdays for which Mike’s family would fly in. At least once Mike's mother would make this pasta salad for Mike because it’s his favourite. What I have omitted is cheese cubes and flaked ham…. Draw your own conclusions on that part!!! I ...
Strawberry and Feta Salad with Walnuts
Strawberry and Feta Salad with Walnuts Without a doubt I love summer. I also love a summery salad. Honestly though, I love all salads; they're healthy flavour bombs with crunch and tang. Salads round out and compliment any and every meal. Here you get the sweet of the fresh (Ontario) strawberries, the saltiness of the feta and ...
Lightened Up Amish Pasta Salad
Lightened Up Amish Pasta Salad Here I present my recipe for Lightened Up Amish Pasta Salad; Through my years of blogging I've found myself making many 'confessions'. Well, I have another one. I don't know why this pasta salad is called Amish... Neither does google... Trust me I checked. What I can say is this pasta salad is ...
Chicken Taco Salad
Chicken Taco Salad My mother bought me one of the pioneer woman’s cook books. Honestly as I sit here writing this I realize should know which book it is, but I don’t 🤷♀️ It has her picture on it if that helps. Anyway I was looking through it and came across her taco salad. Totally inspired this taco salad but dare I say this Taco Salad is ...
Asian Tomato and Cucumber Salad
Asian Tomato and Cucumber Salad I started writing recipes in 2010, I wanted to document what I ate because I wanted to inspire others to eat healthy. Healthy eating isn’t about depriving yourself of what you enjoy eating. Its about smarter choices and more often than not, its about portion control. I became a mother two years later and my ...
Game Day Menu Ideas
Game Day Menu Ideas I have said it before, and I'll say it again; I do not know anything about football 🏈 or the Super Bowl. In fact, I just learned that it is spelled 'Super Bowl', and not, 'Superbowl'... live and learn ☺️ I know food though!!!! Here I present 25 lightened up dishes, that I think would be great for ...
Garlic and Herb Steamed Mussels
Garlic and Herb Steamed Mussels Here I present a recipe for garlic and herb steamed mussels; mussels steamed in a white wine-butter sauce, flavoured with garlic, fresh thyme, and bay leaves. Oh my goodness! It has been a minute since I've created new content. There's something exciting in the works for LisaGCooks.com in the future so stay ...
Cheesy Cauliflower and Potato Soup
Cheesy Cauliflower and Potato Soup Here I present my simple recipe for a hearty Cheesy Cauliflower and Potato Soup, its a soul-soothing comfort meal that's loaded with vegetables :) I don’t like cauliflower. There I said it. It’s bland and usually mushy and it smells bad. I’ve tried to like this vegetable because it’s so healthy but ...
Red Wine Shallot Vinaigrette with Honey
Red Wine Shallot Vinaigrette with Honey Here I present a recipe for a Red Wine Shallot Vinaigrette with Honey, its sweet and tangy with a little crunch - perfect for any occasion :) Pictured here, is the second time I served this vinaigrette for a special occasion. Because it’s special On the first occasion I had leaf lettuce with one royal ...
Spicy Jalapeno Caesar Dressing
Spicy Jalapeno Caesar Dressing I love salad. I think I've been really clear on this fact over the years but as I'm re-branding Lisa G Cooks, I'm really focusing, zeroing in, on what I love and really; I love salad. All salad. I love crispy, crunchy, juicy, sweet lettuce coated in an intense salad dressing. I love Caesar salad. A lot. I ...