As the herb-growing season draws to an end, we’ve been lucky to have a choice of herbs, including cilantro. I overhear many of our members say they love cilantro, so, as we promised earlier in the season when we said we’d try to find new and interesting salad dressing recipes, today we offer a Cilantro Lime Salad Dressing that also takes advantage of those “extra” jalapeño peppers — I hope some of you have taken a few and still can find them in your fridge! Give this a try and enjoy cilantro in a new form on your next fresh salad!
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This is a classic Moroccan sauce typically used on grilled or baked fish, but it is also quite good on chicken. Some like to cook the fish and then add the sauce as a choice on the table, but others love how the sauce seeps into the meat when the fish is cooked with a slathering of the sauce on top. This particular recipe comes from The New York Times.
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If you’ve still got tomatoes (and I’m sure many of you do), here’s a recipe to use some up from Mark Bitman’s “How to Cook Everything”
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Here’s another colorful variation on a traditional summer party staple, taken from a William Sonoma cookbook, Cooking from the Farmers’ Market. The recipe serves 6.
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Simple and spicy. The fresher the ingredients, the better the salsa!
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Found on Taste of Home, this gorgeous shrimp and avocado salad has such authentic flavor, you’ll think you’re sitting at a beachside cantina in Acapulco! Serves 4.
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This recipe is from the excellent smittenkitchen.com food blog. We provide instructions to either microwave the squash quickly, or roast it in the oven – your choice! This works great as a side or as a main dish with couscous and some sautéed greens. Serves 4.
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Here’s another yummy recipe from the “Simply Organic” cookbook.
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Place the following ingredients into a food processor and blend until desired consistency:
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Salsa Verde is to Mexican cuisine what tomato sauce is to Italian food. Salsa verde is similar to red salsa, except that instead of using red tomatoes, it uses the small green tomatillo. Its most popular use is as a chip dip, but also used as a sauce on meats and poultry. This salsa verde recipe, found at whatscookingamerica.net, makes great use of the tomatillos, cilantro, and hot peppers in late summer shares. Feel free to reduce the hot peppers and increase the tomatillos if you don’t want it too spicy. Makes approximately 2 cups.