Day 26: Amy Zents Memorable salad

Cucumber, avocado, carrot, red grapes, raisins, cashews, lettuce, radishes, tomato, sharp chedder cheese all combine to make a memorable and delicious salad for Memorial Day!

Day 25: Amy Zents Sunday Night Salad and Amy Zents Beans and Greens

Iceburg lettuce, garlic, crumbled Feta cheese, avocado, tomato, radish, olives (black and green w/ pimento) and Italian Seasoning dressing made this salad delish.

Followed by fresh strawberries and an Oreo Klondike bar with Peanut M&M's

Affectionately known as Amy Zents Beans and Greens.

The beans refer to the Cocoa in the chocolate Klondike bar and and the Greens represents the Green Peanut M&M's

Day 24: Amy Zents Kick your butt salad, and Amy Zents CherryK fruit salad!

The Amy Zents KYB salad is a salad I created when you KNOW you need that salad but you don't feel like making a huge one.

Romaine, onion, radish, tomato, blue cheese dressing and some cashews adorn the KYB salad. You may add a side of Alloute Garlic-herb cheese spread on w.w toast.

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. ~John Maxwell

The Amy Zents Cherry K salad is a delicious salad made of an Oreo Klondike bar split in half or quarters and topped with fresh ripe pitted Cherries.

Day 23: Amy Zents B-12 Salad with boiled eggs

Pre-dressing:

I hard-boiled some eggs in my Paula Dean Egg machine and put together a lovely salad with the eggs,
romaine, onion, tomato and pepperjack cheese, radish and blue cheese dressing.  I dubbed this salad, Amy Zents B-12 Salad with boiled eggs!

Post-dressing.

I drink lots of fresh cold water, purified in the Culligan pitcher.

Day 22: Amy Zents Fresh Carrot and Cucumber-Romaine Salad with Italian Dressing

Running out of time?

This simple salad will get you to your gig on time!

I peeled then scraped (to make thin strips) a large fresh carrot with the potato peeler, and peeled and coarsely chopped a big fresh cucumber, along with adding fresh-washed leaves of delicious healthy Romaine lettuce to make this simple fresh carrot and cuke salad.  I topped it with Italian Seasoning Salad dressing to complement a delicious wheat-pasta/zucchini/mushroom Italian-Basil Boca Burger entree I created for my husband and I to have a speedy dinner, before we both had to race to work tonight!

Day 21: German Vegetarian Potato salad with Morningstar bacon and new potatoes

I made a unique one of a kind potato "salad:" that turned out to be more of a vinegrette/sugar/dill/water flavor on fried new potatoes, onion and crispy soy bacon with fresh dill.

It tasted delicious.

If I had added flour and had a more liquidy sauce it would have resembled German potato salad more closely.

All, in all, this conconction tasted yummy and delicous anyways!

 

Day 20: Amy Zents Hurry-Hurry Avocado Salad with lots of goodness

In a bowl I cut up a perfectly ripe avocado, tomato and cucumber.  I also added green seedless grapes, greem amd black olives, lettuce and sharp Chedder cheese.  Then I made some dressing with white salad vinegar and olive oil.  To complement the salad I added a fresh-baked, oven-warmed  french baguette served alongside a delicious brie.

Sadly, I was in a big hurry to get to work so I only enjoyed a smaller amount of this deilcious repast than I wanted to!

Day 19: Amy Zents Moody Monday Salad: I was curious to see how this concoction might work.

Amy Zents

Moody Monday Salad

I was curious to see, what does mixing rice vinegar, olive oil, worchestershire sauce, and dried red pepper flakes taste like when made into a dressing, and poured onto lettuce, sharp chedder cheese, onion, tomato, salad 'n garden-fresh chives?

(See answer below.)

Day 18: Orange-Strawberry Drool-Inducing Delight!

I added a very thin slice of choc.-frosted yellow cake to a sliced orange and sliced strawberries to make this drool-inducing delight!

Day 17: Amy Zents "Saturday Smorgas-Salad!"

Tonight my salad consisted of a smorgasbord of flavors.
Boiled eggs, ritz crackers with Aloutte garlic cheese spread, fruits, veggies and potato with sour cream and Frank's hot sauce to delight our palates and satisfy our craving for good food fun!

Day 16: Amy Zents Tangy Dressing Salad!

Today's salad featured a very zesty dressing and pepper jack cheese!  I put some olive oil, lemon juice and Kraft Italian Seasoning dressing in a cup and mixed it up.

I poured it on top of lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes and pepperjack cheese.  I also added fresh-picked chives and green onions from our garden to make a delicious refreshing homemade salad!

Day 15: Mangos are in season hooray!

Before I served them I doctored them up with cashews!

I LOVE CASHEWS!

a fresh Mango-strawberry topped with yogurt fruit salad.

Day 14: A salad on a Black Bean Veggie burger with cheese

Had a soy black bean burger with chedder cheese and loaded it down with romaine lettuce

tomato, dill pickle, and onion.

A savory and healthy addition to any meal!

I even got "comic" fodder from this meal.  Check out my webcomic blog

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Day 13: Panera's Greek Salad, very nice shared with someone.

My husband and I split the salad and a bowl of the black bean soup with bread .  Filled us up. 

Day 12: Homemade yogurt for breakfast, homegrown chives in salad for supper!

Breakfast was my original "Homemade Yogurt Yum!"

Homemade yogurt, mango, banana, honey, and some cashews thrown in for good measure.
Nutritional goodness, and very tasty.

For supper tonight, I made a lovely fresh salad with hard-boiled eggs, chives and green onions from our garden and tomatoes, cheese, romaine lettuce sprinkled with cashews, and covered with a blue cheese dressing.

Very satisfying!  Grapes (see bottom) complemented the salad too.

Day 11: Chanhassen Dinner Theatre's garden salad with blue cheese dressing

Yummy salad.

I got the holey napkin!

Good salad though!

Day Ten: Zents' Fake BLT salad

I created "Zents' Fake BLT salad," a new salad recipe where I fried up 6 strips of Morningstar soy bacon, added plum Italian fresh tomatos, a square of "real" (not processed cheese food) sharp chedder cheese, romaine lettuce swirled in a creamy blue cheese dressing.  Pardon the poor grammar, but in affectionate tones:  All's I can say is, "Yum!  Yum!"

Day 9: Amy Zents' "Oooh La! La! Salad!"

Amy Zents' "Oooh La! La! Salad!"

My husband and I enjoyed this wonderful salad I made.

Ingredients:

Romine lettuce, green seedless grapes, fresh, firm, and oh so good~yellow bell pepper, tomato, onion and topped with blue cheese dressing and cashews.

I heated up a baguette and made up a side bowl of Extra virgin olive oil, with dried red peppers for dipping the bread in, and we had hot coffee with half and half.

A tasty dinner!  Yum!

Grapes and Yellow Bell Peppers plus French bread.

Day 8: Amy Zents' Asparagus/hoisin sauce Stirfry! and Amy Zents' Klondike Kashew Fruit Salad

Supper was a concoction I put together, that I've dubbed, Amy Zents' Asparagus/hoisin sauce Stirfry! made up of  boiled brown rice. which I then sauteed  in olive oil spray) topped with a stiffried mix:

some tomato, some bok choy, a half an onion, fresh asparagus tips, garlic, green pepper, fresh mushrooms, hoisin sauce, fried in canola oil....very flavorful!!!

then for dessert:

I made a tasty fruit salad I dubbed,  Amy Zents' Klondike Kashew Fruit Salad which I invented on the fly with ingredients I had in the refrigerator:

                                                                           Banana

Green seedless grapes

Raw fresh Mango

Fresh strawberries

a drizzle of honey

all topped with an

Oreo Klondike bar

then covered with a handful of salted cashews!

Very, very yummy!!!