This was my favorite photo from JeffreyW this week. That’s Homer (remember him?) doing his best Egyptian statue imitation.
We are having a week of weather whiplash, so the recipes this week reflect that. Some for those 75 degree days and some for the upcoming wet and wild weekend. Friday recipes from the blog:
Two soups make the cut tonight.
Chicken Alfredo Tortellini Soup (recipe here), easy to put together and pair with a nice Antipasto Salad (recipe here) for a quick dinner or great for a lunch treat.
French Onion Soup popped up on my radar several times over the past few weeks. So now I want some. It’s almost sweet onion time (Vidalia, April-May, followed by Walla Walla Sweets – June) and I think they make the best onion soups. JeffreyW’s mouth-watering photo above is only the beginning – entire slideshow and recipe are here.
Turkey Cutlets and Lace Cookies were on the dinner menu this week. Full menu, recipes and shopping list are here.
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What’s on your menu for the weekend? Cooking for summer, spring or winter in your area?
Tonight’s featured recipe has been one of my favorite salads lately. Especially when the temps were close to 80 degrees.
Confession. I hate avocados. And guacamole leaves me cold. My friends love going to Mexican restaurants with me, I get my guacamole and sour cream on the side, then pass them on to my table-mates. But the avocado dressing for this salad, I can’t get enough. Go figure.
BLT Salad with Avocado Buttermilk Dressing
This recipe serves 2Salad
- 4 strips thick cut bacon (or substitute turkey bacon)
- 2 hearts of Romaine lettuce, shredded
- 4 to 6 cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 avocado, peeled and cubed*
- cilantro leaves for garnish (optional)
Dressing
- 1 avocado
- buttermilk or ranch dressing**
- limejuice
- salt & pepper to taste
skillet, bowl, serving bowls
Dressing: halve avocado, remove pit and scoop flesh into bowl, add an equal amount of buttermilk dressing, limejuice to taste (I used about 1 tsp) and mix until smooth. Salt and pepper to taste. Set aside
Add bacon to skillet and cook on medium heat until crisp. Remove to paper towel to cool and drain. Slice into 1/2 inch pieces.
While the bacon is cooking, prep the salad fixings. Toss with cooled bacon pieces. Add to serving bowls, top with dressing and garnish with cilantro leaves.
*the easiest way to cube an avocado is to halve it, remove the pit and then score it into cubes. Run a sharp knife around the edge of the avocado, then turn the skin inside out and the cubes pop out.
**If you don’t like buttermilk or ranch dressing, you can substitute sour cream and 1 tsp crushed garlic for the dressing.
That’s it for this week. Have a great weekend…I’ll let you know if it’s two feet of snow or just rain for us – TaMara
Baud
When did you add HFG to your nym? What does it mean? High fructose girl?
schrodinger's cat
@Baud: Hillary Fan Girl?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
It must be in the warm end of the whiplash given Homer’s pose.
Thank you for all the recipes you post! BLT salad looks amazing. I kinda like Pioneer Woman’s ranch dressing recipe.
Thanks for the avocado cubing tip – where wer you 10 years ago when I had to figure it out? I just use a melon scoop and have avocado rounds if I’m having a “droppy day” where the my fingtertip sensory quality makes using knives too much of an adventure.
Bixby is well, and sedate as usual, I hope. LOL.
Baud
@schrodinger’s cat: Now I’m upset.
No BFGs on Balloon Juice?
schrodinger's cat
@Baud: We are all BFGs, now and evermore.
Baud
@schrodinger’s cat: ?
Gin & Tonic
@Baud: We’re all Baud Fan Girls. Even the dudes.
Gin & Tonic
I’m too slow, I see.
NotMax
Red wine in onion soup? Quelle horreur.
Dry sherry or bust.
Spoiled because we get the very, very slightly sweet Maui onions year ’round. Primo ingredient for onion soup.
@Baud
Home Food Goddess?
schrodinger's cat
I lubs me some Homer kitteh! but please I hope he is not, what’s 4 dinner. Kittehs are friends not food.
TaMara (HFG)
@NotMax: So close…Honorary Food Goddess because that’s what Anne Laurie used to call me when she posted the recipes. BHF was a long time ago and another lifetime, so time to let it go. ;-)
Baud
@NotMax: That makes too much sense.
debbie
I love avocados. That dressing sounds Green Goddess-ish. Yum!
Punchy
I have a keg in my car for the first time since college. A LONG time ago. I feel much less excited about this than I would have the last time it happened…
Oldness sucks
TaMara (HFG)
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Bixby is snoring away on the couch at the moment. The life, ya know.
Adam L Silverman
That salad recipe is kosher for Passover, right?
Morzer
Dagnabbit, even the cats are guilty of cultural appropriation these days. Trans-species cultural appropriation too!
I blame Oberniebama.
Adam L Silverman
@debbie: I have an avocado vinaigrette recipe I can post for you some time.
geg6
@NotMax:
Agreed. Dry sherry or no soup for you!
debbie
@Adam L Silverman:
Yes, please!
Adam L Silverman
@debbie: I’ve got to get through a project I’m working on, and then I have a day trip for someone’s retirement on Tuesday, but I’ll hook you up towards the end of the week.
khead
The food looks great. So does Homer.
debbie
@Adam L Silverman:
No rush, Adam. There will always be another salad to dress.
WaterGirl
@Adam L Silverman: Second the yes, please for the avocado vinaigrette! I don’t do creamy dressings.