carrot ribbon salad

June 16, 2011

Cailen Ascher

carrot ribbon salad, easy side dish, healthy cooking, healthy eating, simple recipe

this super simple salad is the perfect summer side. (you like all the alliteration? thank you, ap english.) anyway, if you have 5 min, you can pull it together...and it's so pretty : )

2 large carrots
1/2 tsp soy sauce
1/2 tsp teriyaki
1/2 tsp olive oil
1 tsp chopped garlic

makes 2 side dish servings

1. peel the outer layer off the carrots and toss it
2. keep peeling...and peeling...
3. toss the ribbons with the soy, teriyaki, oil and garlic
4. done!

i didn't have any (unfortunately) but fresh chopped chives would be awesome on this!

we enjoyed our carrot ribbon salad along with homemade turkey burgers, sweet potato fries with chipotle salsa dipping sauce and sauteed onions & zucchini.

June 15, 2011

Cailen Ascher

easy side dish, healthy cooking, healthy eating, sweet potato, whole foods

sweet potato fries

June 15, 2011

Cailen Ascher

easy side dish, healthy cooking, healthy eating, sweet potato, whole foods

the other day at the natural foods market i found local sweet potatoes. upon seeing them i knew what i wanted to make - baked sweet potato fries.

when i started peeling them, i noticed something peculiar. the flesh was not bright orange, as i am accustomed to, it was pearly white. hmmm...intriguing...

don't worry, they tasted amazing - even better than the orange-colored fries i've made before. i'm not sure if it was the fact that they were fresh & local or perhaps white-fleshed sweet potatoes are just better, but they were seriously the sweetest sweet potatoes i've ever enjoyed.

1 large sweet potato (will make 2 hearty side portions or 4 small servings)
1-2 tsp olive oil
salt & cracked pepper
red curry

preheat oven to 400