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Veggie Packed Quinoa Salad, Steak Optional

August 15, 2024 by overtimecook Leave a Comment

Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? I send out a weekly menu plan, plus more. Click here to sign up. P.S – it’s completely free! This is really a tale of two recipes. A vegetarian salad with lots of quinoa and tons of veggies. It's delicious and filling - as you might expect. But then, we have the optional steak. This transforms the salad into a full meal, or a beautiful plated appetizer.  Speaking of meat, I want to introduce you to my favorite kosher meat source: Kosh. They sell premium quality meat, poultry and fish. I have partnered with them to introduce you to their products, and share a coupon code to save on your order. Click here to shop and use coupon … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Appetizers, Dinner Ideas, Healthy, Holiday, Main Courses, Meat, Salads, Seasonal, Shabbos, Shabbos Lunch, Vegetables Tagged With: appetizer, Cabbage, Corn, herbs, kale, peas, Quinoa, recipe, salad, shabbos lunch, steak

Beef Bacon Potato Salad

May 27, 2024 by overtimecook 3 Comments

Beef Bacon Potato Salad has it all: kosher crispy beef bacon, sweet and tangy dressing - it's the perfect side or salad to accompany a barbecue or any meal! Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. P.S – it’s completely free! If you're looking for the perfect salad to add to your barbecue menus or serve at shabbos lunch, look no further than this Beef Bacon Potato Salad. The crispy facon coupled with the creamy maple mustard dressing is going to wow your guests and keep everyone coming back for more! Did you know that I share cooking demos, menu plans, giveaways, and lots more exclusive content on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Appetizers, Grilling, Salads, Seasonal, Sides Tagged With: bacon, bbq, Beef, grilling, Potato, potato salad, shabbos lunch

Roasted Eggplant and Pepper Salad

January 11, 2024 by overtimecook Leave a Comment

Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. P.S – it’s completely free! This salad is the perfect addition to your repertoire. Whether you serve it with the dips course on shabbos, or as a side dish, it's delicious, easier to make than you might think, and so versatile! You can serve this as a relish over grilled steak or chicken, and a salad or side dish, or with bread or challah.  Did you know that I share cooking demos, menu plans, giveaways, and lots more exclusive content on Instagram? Follow me there for all that bonus content that you don’t want to miss!   Did you preorder Real Life … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Appetizers, Condiments/Sauces/Dips, Healthy, Holiday, Passover, Passover, purim, Salads, Shabbos, Shavuot, Sides, Sukkos, Super-Easy, Vegetables Tagged With: bell peppers, Easy Recipes, eggplant, healthy recipe, Recipes, relish, salad, salatim, shabbos recipes

Crunchy Green Bean and Deli Salad

May 15, 2023 by overtimecook Leave a Comment

Crunchy Green Bean and Deli Salad is the kind of perfect menu staple - simple enough for a lunch at your desk, nice enough for a special occasion meal.  Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. P.S – it’s completely free!   Like many of the best recipes, this one happened because something went wrong. I bought some fresh green beans to roast for dinner, but then my oven broke and I needed to come up with plan B. I blanched the green beans, added some stuff that I found around my kitchen, and the resulting product was so good, I knew I’d be making it again and again!    Did … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Appetizers, Hanukkah, Healthy, Holiday, Main Courses, Party, purim, Salads, Seasonal, Shabbos, Shavuot, Sides, Sukkos Tagged With: green bean, Holiday, lunch, Recipes, salad, turkey, vegetables

Grilled Chicken Taco Salad

October 2, 2022 by overtimecook Leave a Comment

Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. P.S – it’s completely free! Nice enough for a plated Shabbos or Yom Tov (holiday) appetizer, light enough to brighten a heavy Yom Tov meal, and simple enough to add to your weekly lunch or dinner rotation. What more could you want?    If you're looking for a quick and easy, yet flavorful grilled chicken recipe, feel free to just double that part of the recipe!   Did you know that I share cooking demos, menu plans, giveaways, and lots more exclusive content on Instagram? Follow me there for all that bonus content that you don’t want to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Appetizers, Chicken, Grilling, Healthy, Holiday, purim, Salads, Seasonal, Sukkos, Vegetables Tagged With: avocado, Corn, grilled chicken, Holiday, salad, salad recipes, shabbos, taco, tomato

Crunchy Quinoa Salad

September 19, 2022 by overtimecook Leave a Comment

Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. P.S – it’s completely free! When life gets busy, it can be really easy to get in the habit of skipping lunch, and just noshing on whatever snacks are around. But I think we all know that having a good, filling and satisfying lunch makes a huge difference in our days.  Enter my crunchy quinoa salad. It's got a party of textures going on, plus sweet, savory, salty and more. It's an excellent make ahead salad that will transform your lunchtime! Did you know that I share cooking demos, menu plans, giveaways, and lots more exclusive content on Instagram? Follow … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Appetizers, Healthy, Salads, Seasonal Tagged With: Cabbage, craisins, cucumber, Easy Recipes, healthy recipes, lettuce, lunch, peppers, Quinoa, Recipes, salads

Crunchy Broccoli Slaw with Tangy Maple Dressing

April 7, 2022 by overtimecook 3 Comments

Crunchy Broccoli Slaw with Tangy Maple Dressing is a super easy and ultra delicious salad recipe that's a major crowd pleaser - guaranteed!  Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. P.S – it’s completely free! I've been making this crunchy broccoli slaw for months now, and it has definitely become a family favorite. Truthfully, I debated if I should post this recipe now, before pesach. Because this is DEFINITELY a year round recipe, and I don't want you to think of this as nothing but a pesach recipe. That being said, there are so many great pesach products available these days, and this recipe, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Holiday, Passover, Passover, Salads, Super-Easy, Vegetables Tagged With: broccoli salad, Easy Recipes, gluten free, maple, Passover, pesach, salad, slaw

Roasted Acorn Squash with Crispy Chickpeas

October 27, 2021 by overtimecook 4 Comments

Roasted Acorn Squash with Crispy Chickpeas is the perfect (and super easy!) fall side dish! Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. Recently, my husband and I were having a discussion about how my cooking has changed since we got married. I think he was surprised to hear that it had changed, at all. But think about it... would he really know? So how did it change? There are some minor changes, but also a few big ones. One big one is that my husband really does not like bone-in chicken. He'll eat it, but when he does, he definitely prefers white meat. Which is super weird to me because bone-in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Condiments/Sauces/Dips, Healthy, Holiday, Passover, Passover, Salads, Seasonal, Sides, Super-Easy, Vegetarian Tagged With: acorn squash, chickpeas, Easy Recipes, fall, parsley, Side dishes, sides, squash

Grilled Steak and Portobello Salad

June 3, 2021 by overtimecook Leave a Comment

Grilled Steak and Portobello Salad with Maple Soy dressing is sweet and savory salad perfection!   Do you receive the Overtime Cook newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips and more! Click here to sign up. I think there are two camps when it comes to steak salad. Some people are like...STEAK MAKES SALAD SO MUCH BETTER!! While others seem to feel that steak salad is really just a little game of "find the steak in the lettuce," ya know? Clearly, I'm in the first camp. Salad is good. Steak salad is GREAT! And this Grilled Steak and Portobello Salad with Maple Soy Dressing is certainly next-level. The theme of this salad is pretty much sweet and savory - in the best way … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Appetizers, Grilling, Holiday, Meat, purim, Rosh Hashanah, Salads, Shavuot, Sukkos, Tu B'shvat Tagged With: avocado, mango, portobello mushrooms, salad, salad dressing, steak, steak salad

Sweet and Tangy Raspberry Vinaigrette

May 24, 2021 by overtimecook 1 Comment

Sweet and tangy Raspberry Vinaigrette is easy to make, and uses a secret ingredient that will blow your mind! Do you receive the Overtime Cook newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips and more! Click here to sign up. Need some ideas for turning this dressing into a complete salad recipe? Scroll down for my top five salads to use this dressing on! This is actually a really old recipe that already kinda exists on this blog. But the other day, I opened up the page with the recipe, and I realized how much I had changed it over the years.The original recipe, while delicious as-written, has been tested and tweaked and updated over the years. Today, I decided to share the updated … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Condiments/Sauces/Dips, Healthy, Salads, Seasonal, Super-Easy, Vegetarian Tagged With: raspberry, salad dressing, tea, vinaigrette, vinegar

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