There is no place like kitchen

My husband has a prejudice against broccoli, but I kept trying to cook healthy and broccoli is included in menu. When my husband tried this salad, he exclaimed: "Who invented to cook the broccoli?". No, really, raw broccoli is  crunchy and very good with bright sauces. I used sweet pepper and carrot in my salad in this time.
Recipe adapted from many similar (but it was difficult to find a salad without mayonnaise), the sesame sauce recipe adapted from Eating Out Loud with my additions.

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Adapted from cooks.com. The most interesting part is the dressing, it’s perfect for boiled vegetables too.

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There is no recipe. All in name

This salad in Christmas colors – red, green and white. Great detail - slow-roast tomatoes. Recipe adapted from Pies and bass blog.

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Adapted from Fifty favorite recipes potato salad book by Barbara Lauterbach.

I love homemade pesto. No, really. But my pesto is not identical to the real Italian pesto with pine nuts and lot of virgin olive oil. My pesto usually consist of fresh basil leaves (from my backyard garden), toasted almond nuts, Parmesan cheese, some garlic and vegetable oil. Taste of basil and almond only with touch of garlic.  In this time I used almonds too. It’s great tomato pesto with sour taste go well in many sandwiches.

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Great stuffed with eggs mini meatloaves and crunch salad.

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My husband loves onion and tomato salad from early college years. I added bread in salad and it was great for lanch with simple oil-vineger dressing.

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