Over the past couple of years I’ve been leaning towards going vegetarian. I guess, I could never entirely stop eating meat (or seafood or chicken) but due to health reasons, I have been trying to cut back on animal proteins. However, it is often hard to feel full after a meal of only vegetables but I there are some...
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Tag Archives: cauliflower
Whole Roasted Cauliflower with a Mint-Goat Cheese Sauce
It’s been quite a while since I have posted a new recipe on my website. It’s not that I haven’t been cooking but I just haven’t had the time to take pictures, write up the recipe and upload it on the blog. Anyhow, today I made the time to roast a whole cauliflower and it came out really well....
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Roasted Cauliflower and Pea Shoots Mediterranean Salad
After the extremely harsh winter, my vegetable patch is just about starting to come to life. I am so happy to see little sapling making their way out of the ground. This year I have had mixed luck – my eggplant seeds, squash seeds, and watermelon seeds just seem to have been lost in the dirt (haven’t sprouted or...
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Dill Weed and Garlic Vinaigrette on a Healthy and Colorful Salad
As you may have guessed, I love food and I love food that is cooked in a simple way and that tastes of the raw ingredients that go into making it. But, somehow the dishes I find in most restaurants in America are often either over-salted (drowning out the taste of the ingredients) or overly sugared (which again dominates...
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Harissa Roasted Cauliflower and Pomegranate Salad
My regular readers must know by now that I have been on this binge of experimenting with Mediterranean flavors. Recently I have experimented with a few different kinds of tagines, olive tapenade and grilled vegetables with an herb gremolata. In any case, since the Mediterranean diet is supposed to be the healthiest kind of food, I suppose there is...
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