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Salad Brain Exercise–Fig Salad for Brunch

by Min Merrell October 27, 2021

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Salad Brain Exercise–Salad Greens on the Side

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Salad Brain Exercise–Green Bean

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Salad Brain Exercise–Strawberries and Marshmallow Fluff

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Salad Brain Exercise–Grapefruit and Fennel Salad

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Salad Brain Exercise–Cranberry Orange Gelee

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This was a hit with my peeps on #thanksgiving. Bee

This was a hit with my peeps on #thanksgiving. Beets brined in vinegar sugar and pinch of salt. Roasted cranberries. Just throw them in the oven with sugar and cook about 30 minutes until kind of candied. Oranges. Onions jalapeños and radish sprouts. Always looking to add color crunch and tang to the all that brown mushy food!! The beets and cranberries are terrific together and exactly the same color. I like how this hits all the corners of taste. Sweet salty sour bitter and lots of earthy umami. No oil or dressing necessary. I’ll play around with beets and cranberries some more. Lots of directions to go. 🥗💪🏻
#saladbrain #platteralthinking #plattersalad #salads #saladsofinstagram

I hope everyone is planning to bake real #cornbrea

I hope everyone is planning to bake real #cornbread for their cornbread dressing. This pic show that you can get pretty good results even if you don’t have a cast iron skillet. Just be sure to heat up the pan good and hot. Not as crusty but not bad. So bake it a little more. Get some self-rising cornmeal or self-rising cornmeal mix. Both have perfectly blended leavening and salt. The only difference with the mix is that it also has a small amount of wheat flour blended in there. Both make great cornbread. I prefer a big skillet for a better ratio of crust to soft insides. You can make any size recipe you like just remember 2 tablespoons of fat per cup of cornmeal. Add an egg (or not) and as much buttermilk or milk to make a creamy pourable batter. Remember dry clumpy batter makes dry cornbread. Happy Thanksgiving. 🦃
#cornbreaddressing #thanksgivingsides

Just for fun. Here’s the progression of my favo

Just for fun. Here’s the progression of my favorite #gingko. I love the yellow carpet. #yellow

I so appreciate that I get to drive by this #gingk

I so appreciate that I get to drive by this #gingko tree all the time. I don’t even believe in perfection. This may be it. #yellow.

@elsitadunn shared this pic she took last Thanksgi

@elsitadunn shared this pic she took last Thanksgiving of my #plattersalad. I’d forgotten about this. My #saladbrain was really kicking in. Idea A+. Execution meh. But it was delicious and I still love the idea so thought I’d share it to get your #platteralthinking engaged as you start ruminating about Thanksgiving. This is not about perfection. It’s about trying ideas and learning. You know all that traditional brown mushy food is begging for color crunch and acidic tang. Traditional/modern blobs of cranberry gelee and fresh orange juice gelee topped with green apple and orange rounds and tangerines satisfy that parameter. Jello snobs stay with me. You can call it gelee. All you need to remember is that each plain gelatin packet gels 2 cups of liquid. Soften enough gelatin in a little of the cold liquid (juice) in your recipe before you heat part or all of it to dissolve the gelatin. Then mix it all up and chill to set. Molded shapes are nice but unnecessary and maybe a bit rigid. You know that doesn’t work for an ENFP. Or use your usual jello recipes and serve them in a new free form way. That’s cool too. Accent with more of an ingredient in the recipe. So many directions to go here. I wrote a book proposal about new gelatin cookery about 20 years ago called GET SET. Couldn’t sell it but it still makes me chuckle. 🥗😂🙋🏼
#thanksgiving #cranberries #gelatin #salads #myersbriggsrecipes #myersbriggs

There are no unbreakable #saladbrain rules. Is th

There are no unbreakable #saladbrain rules. Is this concoction too busy? Yeah so what. I could have eliminated a few things. What should be booted off the platter? Arugula roasted cauliflower fennel and red pepper. Capers oil brined olives. Chick peas. Green raisins. Pistachios. Parsley fennel fronds. Pecorino cheese. Olive oil lemons. Can you have too much umami? #sicilian inspiration.
#saladsofinstagram #salads #plattersalad

Happy color accident. Blue morning glories all ov

Happy color accident. Blue morning glories all over this volunteer yellow and orange cosmos. #octobergarden #color
Thank you @sunnybax for those seeds so many years ago. They just keep on giving!

Fall #saladbrain kicked into action. Parameters: b

Fall #saladbrain kicked into action. Parameters: brunch with cool friends. Didn’t want to let them down. Although they’d still like me anyway. Red fruits. The mint in the garden gets a second life in the fall cooler weather. Use some of that. The result. Plums fresh figs cut two ways. Red grapes. Greek yogurt as the dressing underneath half so you don’t have to have any. Drizzle of date syrup. Fresh mint leaves. A nice green counter color to the warm reds and oranges. Chia seeds because I couldn’t find any roasted and salted pistachios in the pantry. Dang. Next time. 🥗 There’s always a next salad.
#saladsofinstagram #salad# #figs #brunch #plattersalad #platteralthinking

Little bit of time for a walk before the #ldei21

Little bit of time for a walk before the #ldei21 final dinner. Thanks San Antonio! Even ran into a wedding on the #riverwalksanantonio. I’m coming back! #sanantonio #briscomuseumofwesternart #alamo

San Antonio Les Dames are knocking it out of the p

San Antonio Les Dames are knocking it out of the park with the decorations. Check out this #dayofthedead altar. Beautiful. #ldei21. Oh man I just attended a seminar on lighting for social media. Uh oh. Still learning 🤭😧

Beautiful morning for #RhodeIsland #jonnycakes on

Beautiful morning for #RhodeIsland #jonnycakes on the #pilotrock #johnnycakes #flintcorn

What a swweeet gift from Nick and Joan who grow #d

What a swweeet gift from Nick and Joan who grow #dahlias. Each one needs its own vase to really feel the beauty. @pegvessels I know you love these colors!

@rbquinnstagram favorite #griswold perfect for thi

@rbquinnstagram favorite #griswold perfect for this apple cornmeal skillet cake. Rich batter like a buttery pound cake on the bottom. You melt the butter and just stir it up. Great choice for an apple dessert if you don’t want to make pie crust. Recipe link in bio. #selfrisingcornmeal

Platter Salad Midge is sitting with an idea that’s worth noting. One small change can have an impact. The cukes are thinly sliced, salted, and left to cure in the fridge a few hours. Instead of watery crisp slices these are briny and fold into ribbons. Texture is as important as any other characteristic!

One of my go-to recipes from the #jackdaniels cook

One of my go-to recipes from the #jackdaniels cookbook. Perfect to pair with Tennessee whiskey cocktails or ice cold beer. We call these little beauties cornbread barrel bungs. 😊 Mini cheesy cornbread muffins. Or maybe Tennessee #gougeres! Add what you like. Sausage. Black pepper pimiento cheese. These have spicy #hatchchile in them. And they freeze well and reheat beautifully in the toaster oven. Whenever you need a little something. Recipe link in bio!

One of the big oaks down in our woods. @rbquinnsta

One of the big oaks down in our woods. @rbquinnstagram for scale #henri

Usual appetizer platters arrange piles of each ing

Usual appetizer platters arrange piles of each ingredient separately. How about applying your #saladbrain and #platteralthinking and mix things up. #prosciutto and melon with Sardinian cheese blackberries black pepper and a little Italian parsley for a green color pop. Serve with skewers. #saladbrain #plattersalad

This platter totally inspired my #saladbrain and n

This platter totally inspired my #saladbrain and nicely illustrates how some reds go toward blue. It just begged for red to blue berries. I love cutting strawberries into circles for kicks too. And no soggy cobbler for us. Instead crisp buttery pastry chards as croutons for our dessert #plattersalad. We’ll douse our servings with creamy boiled custard dressing. #saladsofinstagram #platteralthinking #saladbrain #salads #plattersalads #summerdessert

These my friends are nothing more than a mayonnais

These my friends are nothing more than a mayonnaise delivery system. tomato bacon and watercress on toast. Broken potatoes eggs celery dill and onion. The hot day offered up a nice parameter. Too hot to let the homemade Mayo sit out too long. We’ll all add our own dollops. Riffs on good old BLTs and potato salad. I made the Mayo with some whole grain mustard. Adds a quiet little something. Yes. Get a cute little bag of the colorful potato mix. #platteralthinking. #saladbrain. #plattersalad. #potatosalad #salads #tennesseetomatoes

This tomato salad has me thinking about a lot of t

This tomato salad has me thinking about a lot of things. First. It’s tomato season so don’t settle for one shape and size. Two. I know we all love basil. But don’t forget about that scraggly oregano in the garden. Cute little leaves and flower buds. Three. Use what’s handy. Here it’s chopped olives capers lemon zest and olive oil. Four. Remember your salad practice is for you. I’m amusing myself by highlighting the little gold domes. Don’t worry so much about your family complainers and eye rollers. We all know that is just a given. Yes. The ranch dressing is at the ready😆🥗anyway. Keep it loose. #plattersalad #saladbrain #platteralthinking #tennesseetomatoes #salads

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