My mother made this simple yet different pea salad for picnics or for dinner on hot summer nights. Continuing her tradition, I made it to take to a small boat meet, the Mid Atlantic Small Craft Festival at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and again to take to the Urbanna Small Craft Meet. Continue reading My Mother’s Pea Salad
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Jicama Salad
Jicama is reputed to be an excellent prebiotic and can be added to many types of salads or, if young and tender, peeled and eaten plain. I love to experiment with new salads and this one is perfect for the large, tough jicama sold where we live. We ate it for dinner with slow baked burger patties. I used a food processor to grate the jicama and carrot and to thin slice the fresh pepper. Continue reading Jicama Salad
Persimmon & Pomegranate Salad
Some years our two persimmon trees produce bushels of fruit and we search for creative ways to use it all. This salad uses the flat Fuyu type persimmons when they are still firm and was a beautiful addition to our Thanksgiving dinner. Try to find a large pomegranate that is firm but not dried out. We used one of the amazing pomegranates grown by Daniel Haren in Chico California. Continue reading Persimmon & Pomegranate Salad