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fall salad belleiciousness…

28 Friday Oct 2016

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Here’s a new belle-ringin’ fall favorite…a Shredded Brussels Sprouts Salad!  Perfect for fall dinner parties or as a Thanksgiving side, you will have this one on repeat. 

Start with about 10-12 ounces brussels sprouts 

Remove tough outer leaves and shred sprouts

Gather remaining ingredients:  1/4 c chopped walnuts, 1/4 c crumbled blue cheese, 1/4 c dried cranberries, 1 pear, diced, 2 large, thinly sliced shallots, 2 T balsamic vinegar, 2 T olive oil, 1 t dijon mustard…

Add walnuts, pear, cranberries, and blue cheese to shredded sprouts.  

Next, combine vinegar, oil, syrup and mustard, then season with a dash of salt and pepper.  Pour dressing over salad and toss.  

And…for the final step – heat about an inch of canola oil in skillet.  Fry shallots until golden.  Add shallots to salad…


and serve!

Belleicious!

a&a

a cool salad for the sizzling summer…

01 Friday Jul 2016

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We love it when we run across something a little different in the salad “arena”.  While we wing it with green salads and our old stand-by’s, it’s exciting to change it up a bit!  Here’s one we found and tried last week…to RAVE reviews!!  

The perfect addition to the July 4th picnic (and a great way to use those little tomatoes popping up in gardens everywhere!!), try now & thank us later!

from cooking classy on pinterest


Asparagus, Tomato and Feta Salad

the ingredients:

2 lbs fresh asparagus, chopped into 1″ pieces and blanched

1 lb grape or cherry tomatoes, quartered

6 T champagne vinegar

2 t lemon juice

1/4 c olive oil

1 clove garlic, minced

Salt, pepper

2/3 c chopped walnuts, toasted

4 oz feta cheese

the assembly:

Once asparagus is blanched & cooled and tomatoes are chopped, prepare your dressing using the vinegar, lemon juice, oil, garlic, and salt & pepper to taste.  Toss tomatoes and asparagus with dressing and allow to sit in fridge until ready to serve (can be done up to a couple of hours in advance).  When ready to serve, add the toasted walnuts and feta.  Toss to coat, and serve away!!

Belleicious!!

a&a

guilt-free dessert…a skinny-belle friend-1-1

23 Wednesday Dec 2015

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One belle was recently assigned “dessert” for a large family dinner. Knowing that several loved-ones had recently celebrated great success with weight-loss and general feelin’ good on the Whole 30 plan, she figured a waistline-friendly dessert would be much appreciated (and better for those who might not have fully embraced the concept)!  But coming up with a dessert sans dairy, sweeteners (not even the chemistry lab ones, aka artificial ones), grains, or alcohol might have stumped a less-determined belle.

Well…pears, ghee, cinnamon, and walnuts to the rescue!!  Yum!!


Baked Cinnamon Pears 

– 4 Pears, plan on one-half per person (we used Bosc) and adjust recipe as needed

– juice of one lemon

– 1/2 c Ghee, or clarified butter, melted

– 1 t. Cinnamon (plus more for sprinkling)

– 1 c. Toasted walnuts (we toast with olive oil and salt)


Wash and peel pears, then cut in half. Toss or rub fully with lemon juice to keep them from turning brown before they bake (the lemon also adds another dimension to the flavor).

Place pears in baking dish, cut side down. Combine cinnamon and ghee, then poor over pears, making sure to fully coat. Sprinkle with extra cinnamon

Toast walnuts. At this point, the dish can be stored countertop or in the fridge until dinner begins. About a half-hour before serving, place pears in the oven at 350 degrees. Let the aroma cause great anticipation.


Top each pear with walnuts. Serve…and bask in the accolades. You’ve pulled off a skinny (and incredibly delicious) dessert!

PS…vanilla or cinnamon ice cream would be da bomb with this…for those wishing to throw caution to the wind, of course. Shut the front door!!

a&a