Healthy Small Plates, Volume 1: Soups and Salads
By Kate Zeller
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About this ebook
Healthy eating. Everyone talks about it. Everyone wants to do it, Everyone knows one should do it. Why is it so difficult?
Guess what? It isn't. It's easy. Use fresh, healthy ingredients and quit making recipes that serve six when you are only feeding two. Kate decided when she started offering weekly menu plans on Thyme for Cooking, that multiplying is easier than dividing. The recipes are for two servings. They're easily doubled for four or tripled for six or halved for one.
She always knew that cooking is easy, fun and even relaxing. One should be able to prepare dinner, talk to family and have a glass of wine, all at the same time. There are no long lists of ingredients or complex instructions in Healthy Small Plates. Kate likes fresh ingredients and simple recipes with the complex flavors found in the cuisines from around the Mediterranean.
The Soups and Salads in Volume 1 of Healthy Small Plates are flexible. Add a baguette for a quick, lunch, combine two for an easy mid-week or lazy Sunday supper or serve one alone as an impressive (but easy) first course for that dinner with your future (prospective) in-laws. There are suggestions with every recipe.
Is every recipe healthy? Mostly... When the plates are small one can add decadent bits and still enjoy without guilt. Have some fun...
Kate Zeller
American expat, restoring an old farmhouse in France; cooking, blogging, stumbling thru French life. To keep wine on the table I do a weekly menu planning site. The hubs hammers and saws; I cook and garden. Cooking for two can be a challenge - it's easy to make too much food, then eat it! My efforts, (and his efforts) and recipes are chronicled in my blog. All my recipes use fresh, seasonal ingredients. Healthy food for a healthy life. We left Minnesota in the late 90's in search of... better weather? It's a big world, we decided to explore it. After 1 year in Ireland and 7 years in Andorra we are now firmly settled in the-middle-of-nowhere, France. We are restoring a big, old stone farmhouse and raising 2 big puppies. Why, you ask? We don't know... But here we are.
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Healthy Small Plates, Volume 1 - Kate Zeller
People are coming back to the kitchen.
There are many thousands of blogs and sites on the internet offering recipes, instructions and opinions on food, ranging from radical to traditional, advocating only raw foods to only supermarket prepared foods.
Thyme for Cooking advocates healthy, seasonal foods with an emphasis on the cuisines from around the Mediterranean.
On the Thyme for Cooking website you can find weekly menu plans with easy to prepare recipes (with photos) and organized shopping lists. Each day’s recipes have detailed menu preparation instructions and all recipes use fresh, seasonal ingredients.
On Thyme for Cooking Blog you can find more recipes plus tips on growing vegetables, preserving the harvest and primers on cooking techniques.
All recipes are designed for the novice and/or busy cook, using simple techniques and ingredients that are easily found in local stores and markets.
Healthy Small Plates
is a selection of favorite recipes from both.
Whether you’re looking for a first course for a special dinner, a light summer lunch for friends or a simple supper on a busy night, you’ll find something here.
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Note About the Recipes
First, a general note on salt and pepper: I rarely add salt because most of the recipes have enough for my taste from other ingredients (ham, cheese, olives, stock, etc.). Add it to your taste; the same for pepper.
Second, a general note on cooking: Unlike baking, most cooking is not an exact process. Some of the measurements in the recipes are precise and should be followed, as in making the egg noodles. Others, while precise, are really a matter of taste and practicality. It normally doesn’t matter how large the onion is or the leek or how much asparagus you want to use.
Third, a note on using canned or tinned products: Some of the recipes use commercial products, such as canned whole tomatoes, white beans or chickpeas. If you have tomatoes in your freezer, use them. If you prefer to start with dried legumes, do so. I have given the amounts in both weight and volume and tried to be reasonable. But if your can of tomatoes comes in a 16oz (480gr) size rather than 15oz (450gr) size-don’t worry about it. Just use what you have. See the second note.
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SALADS
Tales of the Green Grocer
Vinaigrettes, Dressings and Salad Basics
GREEN SALADS
Classic Caesar Salad
Kitchen Garden Salad with Thousand Island Dressing
Oriental Asparagus Salad on Mâche (Lamb’s Lettuce)
Asparagus and Egg Salad with Chorizo
Niçoise Asparagus Salad
Chevre, Pesto and Honey Salad
Cold Salmon Salad
Tuna and Radish Salad
Wilted Spinach and Bacon Salad
Warm Chickpea and Spinach Salad with Chevre
Spinach, Feta and Shallot Salad
WINTER SALADS
Warm Stuffed Endive Salad
Winter Salad of Red Endive and Beetroot
Warm Savoy Cabbage and Leek Salad
Savoy Cabbage, Walnuts and Mushrooms
VEGETABLE SALADS
Asparagus, Avocado and Cherry Tomato Salad
White Bean (Cannellini) and Celery Salad
White Bean (Cannellini) and Radish Salad
Chickpea, Egg and Herb Salad with Parmesan Palmiers
Parmesan Palmiers
Chickpea, Shallot and Tuna Salad
Warm Fava Beans, Green Garlic and Bacon on Polenta
Leek and Radish Salad
Warm Lentil Salad/Creamy Mustard Dressing on Spinach
Lentil Salad with Walnuts and Prosciutto
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Tales of the Green Grocer
tmp_d8e58e3f8df3cce748ed5c33702fd366_8fuQjg_html_6a60a6cc.jpgWhen we lived in Andorra a friend of mine had a long-standing, continuous argument with the green grocer near her apartment.
The produce was never fresh.
There was a lovely market just across the border in Spain twice a week. It was only about 10 miles from the border, but with the hordes of shoppers in and out of Andorra most days, it could be a horrendous trip. The little grocer was just