This is a light and tasty salad that is as easy to make as it is delicious. It works well as a side for most Mediterranean, Italian, and Middle Eastern dishes, but is also a great snack on a warm afternoon. I prefer to use English cucumbers because of their relatively small diameter and small seeds. Standard cucumbers …
This green salad was inspired by the famous by the taco lettuce served at Lily’s Cafe – a small family owned Mexican restaurant which served the best Sonoran Mexican in all of Phoenix for several generations (now closed). It’s essentially a plain green salad splashed with apple cider vinegar and topped with salt. The vinegar and …
These little packages of sweet deliciousness make for one of the easiest side dishes you’ll ever put on the grill! We make grilled sweet peppers as sides to almost everything we put on the grill – beef, chicken, pork, you name it! They pair as well with burgers as they do with carne asada and everything in between. All …
Deli meat has been wiped off many people’s grocery list due to the hype of potential increase in cancer risk. You can certainly make this with any other protein if that’s your choice. My choice was to use whole meats cut at the deli counter. Pound for pound, I find that I spend only 1 …
My first attempt at making Loaded Cauliflower Salad was a huge success. HUGE! We were planning to grill some brats and I wanted a side dish reminiscent of potato salad – low carb’ed of course. I read through a few of the highly rated cauli-salad recipes I had bookmarked, but a few of my favorite …
Grilled tomatoes are a tasty side dish to steaks, chicken, and fish. The tomato, like an avocado, is technically a fruit that is usually eaten and thought of as a vegetable. Many low carb dieters avoid tomatoes and that’s generally a good idea, especially tomato sauces. But I find that tomatoes, in moderation, don’t effect …
