Soup and Salad

Creamy Cucumber Salad is a fresh and simple side dish featuring thinly sliced cucumbers and red onions in a sour cream and dill dressing.

Loaded Baked Potato Soup is the perfect winter soup. Loaded with hearty potatoes, bacon, cheese and sour cream,  this feel-good, hearty, savory, delicious soup is comfort food of the highest level.

Always a hit at picnics, Crispy Chinese Chicken Salad with an easy homemade hoisin and ginger flavored vinaigrette.

I know, 95% of the recipes here are desserts. A salad just seems a little out-of-place, but you know I wouldn’t share just any salad here. This is the salad that I want to have for lunch everyday. Apples, dried cranberries, and feta cheese are sprinkled over a bed of fresh greens and drizzled with a …

Oh Sauerkraut, people either love it or hate it,  it seems there is no gray area where fermented cabbage is concerned. I happen to love sauerkraut, but even if you are not a fan don’t be too quick to brush off this recipe for Sauerkraut salad, surprisingly you can hardly taste the sauerkraut. Sauerkraut has a …

  We have been hit hard by a nasty virus. My oldest daughter came down with it first, it was relentless for a solid week, after about 5 days she developed ear infections. Around the time of her ear infections, the rest of us started dropping like flies. It is a miserable cold that once …

It almost pains me to give my husband credit for this soup recipe, but really it was his idea.  He dropped the not so subtle hint  by sharing a similar recipe on my timeline. I tracked down the original recipe to Food.com and decided to humour him. The recipe was actually very good (sorry, I have never …

I was first introduced to Claremont salad at the Wegman’s deli counter. I grabbed a prepackaged container of it to go with a rotisserie chicken one night when a homemade dinner was just not in the cards for me. I was instantly hooked on the sweet and tangy salad made of cabbage, cukes, carrots and …

I am going to be honest with you, I love cucumbers, but really could not care less about pickles. Somewhere between cucumber and pickle the whole thing just takes a wrong turn for me.  What was once crunchy, juicy and fresh ends up suspended in a fluid like a science experiment;  lifeless, salty and lacking …

Broccoli has always been one of my favorite veggies, but it was not until I was a little older when I really began to appreciate broccoli. See, when I was younger I would happily eat raw broccoli as a snack, but once it was cooked it started to lose it’s appeal for me, see overcooked …