Clara is back!!! 94 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to stories from the Great Depression.
Simple, healthy and fast….like done in 6 minutes fast!
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Bitterly Scrumptious, Two-Minute Salad
Pickings are somewhat slim these days at the neighborhood farmers markets, so I was doubly pleased to uncover a single of the most stunning displays of winter greens I’ve ever observed at the stand of Jesse Kuhn’s Marin Roots farm. He most likely had 10 kinds of bitter lettuces and chicories, all surreally beautiful and deliciously bitter.
“Deliciously bitter” could sound like a contradiction, but it’s not (it also sounds much better in Japanese: “nigakute oishii” is high praise there). The trick to enjoying these beautiful, healthful salad greens (“salad purples” is more like it) is to introduce a tiny quantity of sweetness in the dressing to offset the bitterness. So my two-minute prep of this salad went one thing like this:
Tear up sufficient leaves for your salad (Jesse washes his lettuces meticulously, so I usually do not even bother with rinsing and spinning)
Drizzle on your greatest fruity green unfiltered olive oil, along with a drizzle of a thing sweet. My favorite sweetener for this use is jaggery syrup (watch for a video on how to make this quickly in this room), but you could also use agave, ginger syrup, simple syrup, or maple syrup). A short squeeze of Meyer lemon or other citrus for acidity.
Toss on pomegranate arils, a few marcona almonds, and flowers, and dust with s&p (yuzu salt or tangerine salt are especially wonderful).
Declare victory, and get ready for an totally distinct — and completely pleasant — salad encounter.
You could tart this up a million and one particular approaches — with far more fruit, smoked fish, other veggies — but sometimes the simplest salad is the best, supplied your components are prime-notch.
Does anyone else right here like bitter lettuces?
nutritious house cooking
Written by Mr_Eric
writer, cooking teacher, private chef
What do you get when you mix some romaine with sweet potatoes, cranberries and some almondina cookies? Watch and find out!
Video Rating: 4 / 5
11/2 cups English Cucumber, 1/2 red onion, 1/2 red pepper, 1/2 yellow pepper, 1/2 c. celery, 2 cups green olives with pimentos, 1/2 c. feta cheese, salt and pepper to taste, 1/4 c. Balsamic Vinegar. Quarter and slice cucumbers, chop red onion, seed and chop peppers, chop celery and place in to large bowl. Add sliced olives and feta cheese. Add salt/pepper and balsamic vinegar and toss gently. Let sit in frig for a couple of hours. Enjoy!
