Easy Recipes

Here is another great spinach recipe. In the past, I posted Ricotta and Spinach Recipe, Strawberry Spinach Salad and Spanakopita Recipe. Here is another great recipe with spinach - and it’s very easy to make, too.

This spinach salad recipe uses spinach, red onions and peaches for a light, very colorful and very tasty salad. The dressing is also very simple - apple cider vinegar, olive oil and coriander seeds. Coriander is actually cilantro - the greens are called cilantro, and the seeds are called coriander. Ground coriander seeds add a lot of flavor to the spinach salad dressing.

More salad recipes: Watermelon Feta Salad, Avocado, Goat Cheese and Tomato Salad, Green Bean Salad With Almonds and Red Onions.

Ingredients For Spinach Salad Recipe With Peaches and Red Onions

1/2 Pound of fresh Baby Spinach
1/2 of a small Red Onion
1-2 Peaches

For Spinach Salad Dressing

1 Tablespoon of Apple Cider Vinegar
2 Tablespoons of Olive Oil
A pinch of ground Coriander
Salt
Pepper

How To Make Spinach Salad With Peaches and Red Onions

Wash and dry spinach.

Chop the onions. Peel and chop the peaches.

Make the dressing - combine vinegar, olive oil, coriander, salt and pepper.

In a salad bowl combine spinach, peppers and onions. Add the dressing and mix.

Looking for information on how to cook fresh green beans? Just steaming and eating fresh green beans is great, but you can make them more interesting too with other green bean recipes. I like them in this green bean salad: Green Beans and Tomato Salad. And here is another green bean salad you can make - combine steamed green beans with almonds, red onions and a zesty lemon dressing.

The lemon dressing uses both lemon rind and lemon juice and makes the whole salad very fresh and lemony. The almonds add crunch and red onions add great color, a bit of spiciness and even more crunch. This is a great salad to serve with lots of different dishes, for example with Chicken Piccata or Shrimp Scampi.

More salad recipes: Watermelon Feta Salad, Avocado, Goat Cheese and Tomato Salad, Strawberry Spinach Salad.

Ingredients For Green Bean Salad With Almonds and Red Onions

1 Pound of Green Beans
1/2 of a small Red Onion
A handful of slivered Almonds

Lemon Rind from 1 Lemon + 1 Tablespoon of Lemon Juice from the same Lemon
2 Tablespoons of Olive Oil
Salt
Pepper

How To Make Green Bean Salad With Almonds and Red Onions

Clean and wash the beans. Steam for 5-7 minutes. Cool.

Toast the almonds.

Chop the onion.

Make the dressing - combine lemon rind, lemon juice, olive oil, salt and pepper.

In a salad bowl, combine the green beans and onions. Add the dressing and mix. Add the almonds.

Looking for another simple tomato salad recipe to try? There are lots of simple tomato salads that you can take a look at: Simple Tomato Salad, Green Beans and Tomato Salad, Greek Pasta Salad, Panzanella Salad and more.

But tomatoes are so simple to use in salads, that they become a foundation in many different salads, especially in the summer. This salad is extremely simple - it has just a few ingredients, but it is delicious. When you combine simple ingredients that have very different properties - juicy tomatoes, crunchy onions and sharp blue cheese, you get an incredible salad with different textures and flavors.

It is going to take you a few minutes to make this salad, and you will be surprised at how simple and, at the same time, sophisticated it is.

You can serve this salad with Parsley and Basil Pesto With Pasta, this will make a great dinner. You can add a bit of sophistication with this salad to the rustic Lazy Cabbage Rolls, or you can serve it with Chicken Piccata.

Ingredients For Tomato Salad With Onions and Blue Cheese

7-10 Campari Tomatoes
1/4 of a small Red Onion
0.2 pounds of Blue Cheese

1 tablespoon of Olive Oil

How To Make Tomato Salad With Onions and Blue Cheese

Cut the tomatoes in quarters. Chop the onion. Crumble the blue cheese.

Arrange tomatoes and onions on a plate, add crumbled blue cheese and olive oil.

I know that a lot of people have questions about how to cook quinoa, so here is another one of quinoa recipes. Here are the other quinoa recipes: Quinoa Salad With Eggplants and Peppers and Quinoa Salad With Feta And Eggplants.

Quinoa is best not by itself, but with vegetables, nuts and cheese, as adding other ingredients introduces more textures and flavors to quinoa. In this case, we are adding zucchini, pine nuts and parsley, all of each add great flavors to the salad.

And here are more side dish recipes: Greek Pasta Salad Recipe, Potato Salad Recipe Without Mayo, Ricotta and Spinach Recipe.

Ingredients For Quinoa Salad Recipe With Zucchini and Pine Nuts

1.5 cups of quinoa
1 large Zucchini
A handful of Pine Nuts
A handful of Parsley

1/2 Tablespoon of Red Wine Vinegar
Olive Oil
Salt
Pepper

How To Make Quinoa Salad With Zucchini and Pine Nuts

Slice the zucchini and saute in olive oil.

Toast pine nuts. Chop parsley.

Cook quinoa according to the directions on the package. Cool the quinoa.

In a salad bowl, combine quinoa, zucchini, pine nuts, parsley, red wine vinegar and mix.

Many people tell me that they are always looking for more pasta salad recipes, but they can’t find any good ones. When I am looking at pasta salad recipes, I am looking for a salad loaded with vegetables (maybe some cheese, but not necessary). I am also looking for something that doesn’t use mayonnaise in the dressing, if possible. I like oil/vinegar dressings much better.

Enter Greek Pasta Salad. This is a great cold pasta salad, that has lots of fresh vegetables, some feta cheese and pasta. I do like Greek Salads - I have posted about Greek salads a few times already: Greek Salad, Greek Salad Dressing and another Greek Salad Recipe.

This easy Greek pasta salad is more than a salad - because it has pasta as well, it is a side dish. You can serve it with Spanakopita, Chicken Piccata, and many other dishes.

Ingredients For Greek Pasta Salad Recipe

1/2 Pound of Macaroni Pasta
1/3 Pound of Feta Cheese
2 Small Tomatoes
1 Medium Cucumber
1 Yellow Pepper
1/2 of a Small Red Onion
A Handful of Dill
A Handful of Parsley

Greek Salad Dressing

How To Make Greek Pasta Salad

Cook pasta according to the instructions on the pasta package. Cool pasta.

Chop pepper, onions, tomatoes, cucumber, dill and parsley. Chop feta.

In a salad bowl combine pasta, peppers, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, dill, parsley and feta cheese. Add the Greek Salad Dressing and mix to combine.

If you are looking for asparagus recipes or how to cook asparagus, I have great news for you! Asparagus tastes great and it is pretty easy to cook, too!

Just like with other green vegetables, such as broccoli, the key to cooking asparagus is not to overcook it. When you are cooking asparagus in water, or when you are making steamed asparagus, don’t overcook it. When you do, it becomes greyish looking and mushy, and not very tasty.

I think that when people say they don’t like steamed green vegetables, many times they don’t like those mushy greyish vegetables that they get when they overcook them. On the other hand, when you steam a green vegetable for just the right amount of time, you get a green vegetable that is crunchy and very tasty.

The best thing about making steamed broccoli or steamed asparagus is that it is very easy to make. All you need to do is boil water in your steamer, steam the asparagus and you are done!

Here are a few other simple vegetable preparations: Green Beans and Tomato Salad, Broccoli Stir Fry, Roasted Cauliflower.

Serve the steamed asparagus with Shrimp Scampi, Chicken Piccata, Stuffed Peppers.

Ingredients For Steamed Asparagus

Asparagus

Tools You Need To Cook Asparagus

Steamer

How To Make Steamed Asparagus

Wash and clean your asparagus.The ends of asparagus are usually tough, so you will want to discard those. Just cut off and discard the the tough ends.

Add water to your steamer and bring it to boil. Put asparagus on the insert, and steam. Now, the time for steaming it really depends on how crunchy you want your asparagus to be. Steam for 5-7 minutes.

Once asparagus comes out of the steamer, let it cool and enjoy.

Here is a variation on a quinoa salad recipe that I posted about in the past. In that quinoa salad recipe with eggplants and peppers I chopped eggplants and red peppers and then roasted them.

In this recipe I roasted the peppers and eggplants first, and then peeled and chopped them. I also added red onions and herbs to the quinoa salad. I actually enjoyed this version of the salad better, as the flavors of peppers and eggplants seemed to have developed deeper.

This quinoa salad is good for you and it makes a great side dish with many main dishes and it is easy to make. Seriously, if you are looking for quinoa recipes, start by making a quinoa salad. Quinoa salads are easy to make, and they are tasty too! Add some cheese or chicken, and this quinoa salad also makes a nice lunch.

And take a look at more side dishes: Potato Salad Recipe Without Mayo, Garlicky Broccoli Stir Fry, Ricotta and Spinach Recipes, Boiled Red Potatoes With Butter and Dill.

Ingredients For Quinoa Salad With Eggplants and Peppers

1.5 cups of quinoa
3 Red and Yellow Bell Peppers
1 Large Eggplant

1/2 of a small Red Onion
A handful of Basil
A handful of Parsley
2 Tablespoons of Olive Oil
1 Tablespoon of Lemon Juice
Salt
Pepper

How To Make Quinoa Salad With Eggplants and Peppers

Cook quinoa according to the directions on the package. Cool the quinoa.

Roast the eggplant and peppers. Cool eggplants and peppers, peel and chop.

Chop onions, parsley and basil.

In a salad bowl combine quinoa, peppers, eggplants, onions, parsley and basil. Add lemon juice, olive oil and salt and pepper to taste. Mix the salad.

Here is another salad that is very simple to make and that has just a few ingredients. This salad has very few ingredients, but it tastes great, because each ingredient provides great flavors.

Arugula provides a very strong, peppery flavor. Tomatoes provide a burst of sweeter flavor. Red onions are spicy and round up the salad very well. The dressing of lemon juice and olive oil makes this a complete salad and provides a lemony note in addition to the vegetables.

Because arugula is a spicy green, lemon juice works very well with it and provides a very nice counter-balance. If you have never tried arugula, I have to tell you that it has a strong flavor, unlike, say, iceberg lettuce or Romaine lettuce. The first time I tried arugula I thought it was a bit too much, too spicy for a green. But as I started using it in salads, with different dressings, I saw that you can moderate it with other ingredients.

Serve this salad with Pasta With Italian Sausage and Broccoli, Chicken Piccata, Meyer Lemon and Asparagus Risotto.

Ingredients For Arugula Salad With Tomatoes And Red Onions

A few handfuls of Arugula
Grape, Cherry or Campari Tomatoes
1/8 of a Small Red Onion

1/2 Tablespoon of Lemon Juice
2 Tablespoons of Olive Oil
Salt
Pepper

How To Make Arugula Salad With Tomatoes And Red Onions

Wash and dry arugula.

Cut the tomatoes - if using grape of cherry tomatoes, cut them in halves. If using Campari tomatoes, cut them into quarters. Chop the red onion.

In a salad bowl, combine arugula, tomatoes and onions. Add the lemon juice, olive oil, salt and pepper to taste and mix.

Are you looking for Italian pasta recipes? Here are a few that we have posted, Pasta with Parsley and Basil Pesto Recipe and Pasta With Mushrooms, Caramelized Onions and Pancetta.

Here is another great Italian pasta recipe. Usually, a version of this recipe uses Broccoli Rabe and not Broccoli, like I do. This dish tastes great with broccoli as well, so try it with broccoli.

And here are some salads that you can serve with Italian pasta with sausage and broccoli: Simple Tomato Salad, Panzanella Salad Recipe, Green Beans and Tomato Salad, Grape Tomatoes, Onions and Cucumber Salad Recipe.

Ingredients For Pasta With Italian Sausage and Broccoli

1 Pound of Penne Pasta
1 Pound of bulk Italian Sausage
3/4 Pounds of Broccoli
1/2 cup of grated Parmesan Cheese
2 Garlic Coves
Pepper Flakes

Olive Oil
Salt
Pepper

How To Make Pasta With Italian Sausage and Broccoli

Cook pasta according to the package directions. Drain, reserving 1 cup of pasta cooking liquid.

Chop garlic.

Steam broccoli, according to the How To Steam Broccoli recipe.

Heat up the oil in a skillet. Add sausage and pepper flakes and saute until the sausage is cooked. Add garlic and broccoli, cook for a few minutes. Add pasta and some of the pasta cooking liquid. Cook for a minute or two. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and serve.

Since I enjoy eggplant recipes, I am always looking for different salads and other dishes to make with eggplants. Here is another eggplant salad that uses eggplant from the fried eggplant recipe. This one has tomatoes, feta cheese, dill, parsley - great flavors in this simple salad.

Take a look at a few more salad recipes: Potato Salad Recipe Without Mayo, Watermelon Feta Salad, Green Beans and Tomato Salad, Strawberry Spinach Salad.

Ingredients For Tomato Salad With Eggplants, Red Onions and Feta

1 Medium Fried Eggplant, make the eggplant using the Fried Eggplant Recipe
10 Cherry Tomatoes
1/2 of a Small Red Onion
3 oz of Feta Cheese
A handful of Dill
A handful of Parsley

1/2 Tablespoon of Red Wine Vinegar

How To Make Tomato Salad With Eggplants, Red Onions and Feta

Chop the fried eggplant pieces into quarters. Cut the cherry tomatoes in halves. Chop red onions, parsley and dill. In a salad bowl combine eggplants, tomatoes, onions, dill, parsley and vinegar. Mix.

Crumble feta and to the salad.