Coonamesset Farm Salad- May 17, 2010

We picked some fresh greens and edible flowers today and made a delicious grilled chicken salad with a balsamic vinaigrette. We also added roasted peppers, onions & goat cheese. Windfall Market in Falmouth actually carries a lot of the farm's fresh produce if you can't make it their yourself. They also carry (as does Jack in the Beanstalk in N. Falmouth) their bagged greens- a mixture of lettuces, Asian Greens & edible flowers.

Horne's Mixed Green Salad Du Jour- April 17, 2010

Tonight it was another one of our mixed grilled chicken salad. This time we went with a red wine vinaigrette and some yummy mixed cherry tomatoes that Whole Foods and often Roche Bros. carry. We also used blue cheese.

Pear & Blue Cheese Salad- March 23, 2010

We kept it light tonight with a somewhat wintery salad. I used ripe anjou pears, blue cheese & toasted walnuts. I found a "pear infused" white balsamic vinegar that I made a light vinaigrette with. Simple and quick!

Tuna Nicoise Salad- March 12, 2010

Can you tell I'm ready for spring? I've been glad to shed the heavier dishes of winter this past week and embrace the lighter fare of spring. Actually Epicurious has a whole spring recipes screen up on their iPhone app that I find ridiculously exciting. I love Nicoise salad and I usually prepare it in the deconstructed way. Tonight I used blanched green beans, cherry tomatoes, Kalamata olives, hard boiled egg, boiled baby red potatoes, spring greens and of course some seared fresh tuna. I tossed the greens with a simple vinaigrette of red wine, olive oil & Dijon mustard and drizzled the rest with it as well. Light, simple and delicious.

Horne's Mixed Green Salad Du Jour- February 21, 2010

We often make "meal" salads. Basically, we use a meat (usually chicken or some cut of beef- tenderloin, flank) some mixed greens (spring, baby, mache), grilled veggies (peppers, squash, onion), cheese (goat, blue, Parmesan), nuts (walnuts, pepitas, almonds) and of course some grilled ciabatta bread brushed with goat butter. We always make our own dressing- some sort of vinaigrette.
Tonight we did grilled chicken with a light rub, grilled poblano pepper, grilled onions, a little blue cheese & walnuts. My husband made a blood orange vinaigrette, and we had a pinot noir. Yummy!