Sunday, May 20, 2012

Yummy Avocado Summer Salad


  • Avocado, Onion Tomato Salad
  • This salad is the perfect salad for warm summer nights.  Goes well with a medium rare rib-eye or perfectly blackened skirt steak.

  • 2 Hass avocados, peeled, pitted, and sliced
  • 1 pound Roma tomatoes, quartered
  • 1/2 cup thinly sliced red onion 
  • 1 cup sliced English cucumber
  • For Dressing-
  • 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons sliced basil
  • 1 tablespoon sliced parsley
  • 1 sliced shallot
  • Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  • 3 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
  • Wisk together, and add to vegetables.  Serve right away.  

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Bok Choy

The cancer fighting veggie. Throw it in a wok with organic peanuts,  green onion, peppers, fresh Ginger, chicken, tbs of peanut butter, dash of soy and rice wine vinegar ....yum!


Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Cedar Planked Salmon with Lemon Dill

Soak cedar planks for two hours.

Makes 8 servings

1C kosher salt
1/3C brown sugar
1C chopped fresh dill
Finely grated zest of two lemons
Eight 6oz salmon fillets with skin
2C sake
Olive oil for drizzling

Combine salt and brown sugar with dill and lemon zest. Coat and rub on salmon. Refrigerate one hour.

Rinse and cover with sake. Return to refrigerator for one hour.

Light grill.  Drain salmon from sake and place on planks skin down. Brush with olive oil. Place on grill. Cover and cook for 25 min. Serve with fresh lemon slices and dill sprigs.