Comments on: Pasta Salad with Avocado Tzatziki

By: Nancy

Nancy — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:54:54 +0000

Finally made this on Wednesday and loved it even more than I thought I would!! Thanks for the great recipe that can be easily tweaked with whatever fresh veggies you have on hand. Those are always the best. Keep ’em coming. ~N

By: OliePants

OliePants — Tue, 08 May 2012 03:26:29 +0000

This looks incredibly refreshing and I love the use of everyday ingredients to create this lovely recipe.

By: Paula @ Vintage Kitchen Notes

Paula @ Vintage Kitchen Notes — Mon, 07 May 2012 21:21:29 +0000

I can relate to your whole post but am in no way authorized to give you ANY kind of advice, since I just brought 17 bottles (yes, I counted them!) of extracts and spices all the way from Wash DC to Buenos Aires in my bag. How´s that for going into Whole Foods and overstocking? Your pasta looks good!

By: Margaret

Margaret — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:23:15 +0000

“At Casa SoupAddict, dinner isn’t dinner without something being pulled out of the ground or plucked from a vine.”
-What an amazing opportunity! I don’t have a speck of garden, and have been Freud-alistically avoiding picking up dirt to even put in the three pots I’ve set aside for herbs, oh, 6 months ago. Sigh. This is more a case of a lack of a good habit, wouldn’t you say? I’m working on it… 🙂
And great site, in case you haven’t heard that in a while!

By: yummychunklet

yummychunklet — Sun, 06 May 2012 19:34:40 +0000

Ha, I’m still dependent on big box stores, but that’s a force of habit. I grew up buying from Wal-Mart!

By: Sprigs of Rosemary

Sprigs of Rosemary — Sun, 06 May 2012 17:11:02 +0000

Wonderful post . . . . I know of few people (Mr. Rosemary excluded) who can go into a store (for me, it’s any store) and get only what’s on the list. Temptations and bargains tempt. What a great salad, too. Very creative. I won’t be able to trust myself with a mandoline just yet, though.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:40:22 +0000

I love Whole Foods…we don’t have one very close to us but when I visit my son, I visit the one that is less than a mile from his house! That store can be dangerous! Your visit sounds like mine! This salad looks like a winner and I have already printed it! Can’t wait to give it a try!

By: marilyn

marilyn — Thu, 03 May 2012 17:36:31 +0000

yes, right now, one cannot have too many ways to prepare radishes. I’m cooking them a lot right now, not just eating them raw like “normally”. they were good in a primavera type pasta dish last night. (we call that particular store “whole paycheck” around here!)

By: Cher

Cher — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:38:43 +0000

Sigh, I just read an announcement toaday that the Albany area is getting a Whole Foods sometime in 2013 (the closest one to my house is 100 miles away – now it will only be 40 miles away). It is a dangerous place, for sure…

That is one lovely salad & even better that you “foraged” from your own back yard to finish it off. I have radish envy.

By: Tony P

Tony P — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:51:39 +0000

I tend to like to support the local merchants, even if they do have extreme markups to meet their obligations.

It’s funny – a new place opened up near here recently. They have this Great Harvest Honey Wheat bread that is phenomenal but it’s $5 for a 2lb loaf. So one day I’m in there and one of the owners is showing me their POS system. He showed me item management and I was right, they double costs.

What they do is source a lot of their inventory locally as in the State of Rhode Island. They had these absolutely delicious sea scallops once but haven’t since. I hope they get them in again. I just lightly seasoned them and seared them. Yum!