The Best Summer Lunches

The Best Summer Lunches

The story of a Salad and a Sandwich and a Soup! It’s the height of summer and lunch should consist of one of these summer staples. The bounty at your farmers market or local grocery make these a snap.

Caprese Salad
All you need are a couple heirloom tomatoes, some fresh mozzarella, a bit of basil and [...]

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Farmers Markets!

Farmers Markets!

Need we say more? All over the country there are farmers markets on weekends and even weeknights. For travelers like us it is a simple Google search to find one each week. Buy the freshest, local and organic produce you can find and support small farmers!

This week in addition to the heirloom tomatoes, french radishes, [...]

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Grilled Pork Tenderloin and Cabbage Slaw

Grilled Pork Tenderloin and Cabbage Slaw

Grilled Pork Tenderloin and Cabbage Slaw
Serves 2
1 small pork tenderloin, trimmed of silverskin and fat
1/3 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
2 T brown sugar
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 T minced ginger
1 T sesame oil
1 T chili sauce/paste (more or less to taste) – RVFoodies use Sambal Oelek
1 small napa cabbage, thinly sliced
2 carrots, grated
2 scallions, [...]

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A New Fish for Dinner and Lunch

A New Fish for Dinner and Lunch

We had a lovely meal the other night with a new fish to us – opah. We learned from our fishmonger at the New Frontiers Natural Marketplace that opah is a fish that doesn’t swim in schools and so being a solitary fish it is caught incidentally while fishing for tuna by long-lines in the [...]

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Tuna Nicoise Salad

Tuna Nicoise Salad

Try this great summer salad for dinner when it’s hot and you don’t want to cook. The potatoes, beans and eggs can be done early in the day (and in the microwave) and all can be assembled in a jiffy.

For this salad only the best oil packed, from Italy or Spain, solid white tuna will [...]

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Salmon Cakes for dinner!

Salmon Cakes for dinner!

While at Trader Joe’s the other day we spied cans of their boneless, skinless pink salmon and we started craving salmon cakes. This is a perfect quick dinner when the weather is not the best outdoors and grilling is off the table. We try to keep a couple cans on hand all the time.

First make [...]

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