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Happy Memorial Day!

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We did a lot of entertaining last week. I normally don’t experiment on company (except our niece and her husband), but I figured I was safe with the salad I served for a barbeque.

Bok Choy Salad

This would be a great side dish for your Memorial Day party. It is important that you use BABY bok choy, since the more mature product is tougher and not suitable to use raw.

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Baby Bok Choy Salad
Recipe type: Salad
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Serves: 4-6
 
Ingredients
  • 2 small heads baby bok choy, thinly sliced crosswise
  • 2 medium carrots, cut into matchsticks
  • 3 large radishes, sliced
  • ½ cup olive oil
  • ¼ cup white vinegar
  • ⅓ cup sugar
  • 3 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 3 tablespoons slivered almonds, toasted
Instructions
  1. Combine bok choy, carrots, and radishes. Set aside.
  2. Combine oil, vinegar, sugar, and soy sauce in a shaker jar. Shake well.
  3. Pour dressing over vegetables just before serving. Top with slivered almonds.
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What to do with Pickling Cucumbers

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Cucumber and Napa Cabbage with Dill DressingWe got 5 little pickling cucumber in our box this week. They weren’t enough to turn into pickles. (That is too much work, plus I had no time.) I started looking for a recipe for some kind of quick pickle, and came upon this recipe from The Shiksa in the Kitchen for Crunchy Pickled Salad. I had never heard of the cucumbers she used, but decided my pickling cucumbers would work fine. I also used about half of the Napa cabbage from our box. I decided to try a different dressing, and found one on allrecipes.com for a Lemon Dill Salad Dressing. As I was dressing the salad, I realized that I had gotten pretty far away from pickles, but the salad was good, anyway. (Since I didn’t make any adjustments to the originals, I am not going to post my actual recipes. Feel free to follow the links to the original authors!)

Happy eating!

Ruth

Happy Birthday, Mom!

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Grilled Chicken SaladToday is my Mom’s birthday. She taught me a lot about cooking when I was younger, and still makes the world’s best chocolate chip cookies! Since she lives in Wisconsin and we live in Albuquerque, I don’t get to spend as much time with her as I wish I could.

No recipe today, just a picture of a yummy chicken salad I made recently. We got spring mix lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, and radishes in our box this week. I used this recipe from allrecipes.com to marinate the chicken, in only 15 minutes.

Happy Birthday, Mom!

Ruth

 

Baby Bok Choy Salad

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Baby Bok Choy SaladI am so excited that baby bok choy is back! Bok choy is one of my favorite greens. The baby variety is nice and tender, and has good flavor. I decided to make a salad with the bok choy and some of the radishes we got in our box this week. I planned to use CopyKat Recipe’s Applebee’s Oriental Salad Dressing, but was missing a few ingredients. Even with some substitutions, our salad had good flavor and texture.

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Baby Bok Choy Salad
Recipe type: Salad
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Serves: 2
 
Ingredients
  • ¼ cup mayonnaise
  • 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
  • 2 tablespoons rice wine
  • 3 tablespoons sesame oil
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
  • 3 small heads baby bock choy, thinly sliced
  • 6 white radishes, sliced
  • 2 tablespoons toasted almond slivers
Instructions
  1. Whisk mayonnaise, vinegar, wine, oil, sugar, and mustard in a large bowl.
  2. Add bock choy and radishes, toss to combine.
  3. Refrigerate for 2 hours.
  4. Add almonds. Toss to combine.
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Happy eating!

Ruth

All Day Stir Fry

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all day stir fryI am trying to use the crock pot a lot this week, since I have been working lots of hours at my new job. When I Googled “crock pot snow peas,” I came across this recipe from Suddenly Frugal for a crock pot stir fry. OK, so it isn’t fried. My version turned out good, but we did end up adding some extra soy sauce (so I am adding that to the recipe).

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All Day Stir Fry
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Serves: 6
 
Ingredients
  • 1 pound chicken breasts, thinly sliced
  • 1 pound snow peas, strings removed
  • a handful of radishes, sliced
  • 3 medium carrots, sliced on the diagonal
  • 3 cloves garlic, chopped
  • 1 cup chicken broth
  • ½ cup teriyaki sauce
  • ¼ cup soy sauce
Instructions
  1. Spray crock with non stick cooking spray.
  2. Spread chicken breasts in the bottom of the crock.
  3. Top with vegetables and garlic.
  4. Combine broth, teriyaki sauce, and soy sauce. Pour over all.
  5. Cook on low for 8-10 hours.
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Have you ever cooked anything unusual in the crock pot?

Happy eating!

Ruth