Posts Tagged: natural ingredients

Asian Dressing: Sesame Oil, Ginger, Cayenne = Delicious!

Sesame Ginger Dressing

A salad with this dressing made the meal, for our church’s annual Women’s Christmas Dinner. Add it to a spinach salad, with onion & persimmons (or other seasonal fruit). It was also a big hit mixed into a slaw, w/ thin-sliced cabbage, green onion, and cilantro. So tasty!

Meyer Lemon Dressing

Farro Salad w/Meyer Lemon Dressing

An easy way to make flavorful “preserved Meyer lemons”, only easy-style! I just pureed the lemon peel in my Vitamix with some salt, added extra virgin olive oil. Delicious, on so many things!

Caramel Apple Oat Bars

The New Deli's Fave: Caramel Apple Bar

We’ve been doing a taste-test of these caramel apple oat bars at The New Deli… what fun! It’s nice to have a Granny Smith apple tree, producing some nice, organic apples. We know just what to do with those!

Dolmas: Stuffed Grape Leaves w/Rice, Mint, Pine Nuts…

Dolmas- stuffed grape leaves with rice, dried fruit, mint

This is our favorite New Deli recipe for a Greek classic- Dolmas! Since I have a few grape vines, and autumn’s really setting in, I figured I better pull this recipe out and get to work on that brine- easier than shopping for grape leaves in a jar! We LUV these. The brined grape leaves last a looong time… a batch of Dolmas would keep for over a week, except that we eat ’em all!

Artichoke Frittata, Gluten-Free

Gluten-Free Aritchoke Frittata

Many popular breakfast places add flour to their egg dishes, knowing it helps the eggs hold their shape- to stay light, fluffy… But potato starch works too. This is a great dish for party time- easy to make!

Chocolate Mousse, Easy Paleo

Chocolate Mousse, Easy Paleo

Whip the whole eggs until fluffy- easier than separating out the whites… Also, mix the cocoa powder into the honey 1st, which removes lumps. A plus: Honey fights allergies & infections- whoot!

Tabbouleh- Traditional or Gluten-Free

Mideastern Salad- Better than Cous Cous!

I’d take this over cous-cous any day–it IS a whole food, not just a refined-flour-pasta shaped like grain! Soak Bulgar wheat, add spearmint, parsley, lemon, cucumber, tomato. Light & fresh.