How to Pack the Perfect Salad in a Jar Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn (Image credit: Emma Christensen) We love our canning jars for everything from storing grains in the pantry to shaking cocktails in the park. But by far one of our most favorite ways to use our pint- and quart-sized canning jars is to pack them with salads. Yes, that's right, leafy green salads. Dressing goes on the bottom, veggies and other salad goodies get piled on top. How do the greens not get soggy? The basic idea when packing salads in jars is to start with the heaviest and most non-absorbent ingredients with the dressing on the bottom of the jar and work your way up through the lighter ingredients until you end up with the salad greens themselves. How does everything get mixed together? When you're ready to eat your salad, just unscrew the cap and shake it into a bowl. What's the best jar to use? Any canning jar can be used, but wide-mouthed jars are the easiest for both packing the salad into the jars and shaking them out again. How long will jars of salad keep in the fridge?
Mason Jar Zucchini Noodle Salads | Inspiralized Full disclosure: I’m writing this post at 10am. That’s 10am, today. Like, now. Last night, Lu and I went out to a restaurant in Chelsea called Toro. Fan-freaking-tastic. Anyway, I had full intentions on waking up early this morning to write this post. Let’s go back to Toro for a second. We ordered 8 tapas and sealed the deal with a chocolate dessert. Claps all around. Now that I’ve been honest, let’s get to the good stuff: the recipe! While I really really want to call this a “zalad,” I’m afraid to because a restaurant chain down south called “Zaxby’s” apparently has filed for or has a trademark on the word “zalad.” There are two trends that I’ve really wanted to try out: 1. 2. Unfortunately, I don’t own a microwave, so mug cakes aren’t in my future. To buy this large Kerr mason jar pictured in the images, click here. Today, we’re layering all sorts of healthy ingredients into a mason jar that’s perfect for meal prepping for the week or for bringing leftovers to lunch the next day. Step 6
5 Affordable Mason Jar Salads Under 500 Calories | RECIPE CORNER Photo Credit: Recipe Corner – Amanda Patton We all know we should pack our lunches every day, instead of eating out. It's definitely the better choice for your health and your waistline. Recent research shows that people who eat lunch out every workday spend $2,500 each year. It's true that packing your lunch does require some forethought, planning and effort, but there’s one tool that has made brown-bagging fun again: MASON JARS! These perfectly portable containers never spill and, with a little ingredient layering, they keep your fruits and veggies from getting soggy. Always have leftovers at the ready. Here are five mason jar salad recipes – one for every day of the week – that cost less than the average restaurant lunch. Deconstructed California Roll - CLICK HERE FOR RECIPE Sushi has always been a lunch budget-buster… until now, thanks to this unrolled version of the very popular California Roll. Cost per serving: $5.50 (ingredients only, not including mason jars)
I Love Pinterest: The Amazing Mason Jar Salads! SO....this is the beginning of week 3 on Weight Watchers and I am enjoying big success! 6lbs gone so far and I can already feel a big difference. Here's something that has saved me AND encouraged my husband (Mr. Honey Bun and Mountain Dew), and my kids (no tag names needed), to eat healthier without even realizing. So, here is our take on Mason Jar Meals, specifically Mason Jar Salads: Our first step: Hunting and Gathering. Not So Simple Life Our next step: cleaning, cutting, chopping. Then, assembly. Here are a few tips: 1. 2. 3. Here are some of our recipes: Poppyseed: Layer, in this order: -poppyseed dressing -carrot shreds -green peas -pineapple -blueberries -raspberries -lettuce Asian: -light asian ginger dressing -peapods -cabbage shreds -water chestnuts -bean sprouts -quinoa -toasted sesame seeds Seafood (I make a light dressing with light mayo, skim milk, s and p, and parmesan -dressing -cherry tomatoes (halved) -black olives -celery -drained canned crab / drained canned salad shrimp Caesar: -cukes -parmesan
Mason Jar Meals Welcome to MasonNation Big Red Kitchen® is dedicated to teaching busy singles, couples, and families how to design healthy, delicious, and time-saving meals for fresh eating at home or on the go. I MasonATE my kids lunches, leftovers, office meals for Himself, snacks, and freezer meals. To me, the Mason Jar is a storage vessel plain and simple and that is all. Mason Jar Meals, Just Screw It Why to…How To…Need to…Part IPart II Mason Jar Meal Tutorials1 hour, 3 salads, 6 meals- How to make 3 classic salads for fresh, healthy, on-the-go eating Mason Jar Meal VideosThe fastest way to “rice” cauliflower- paleo friendly breakFAST/BrunchEggnog MuffinsTeeny Tiny Cinnamon RollsPigs in a Blanket Pancakes with Maple Fried ApplesSelf-Buttering BiscuitsPeaches and Cream Coffee CakesMini Jar Quiche and Go’sPaleo Breakfast Bowls AppetizersMini Quesadillas and Cinnamon Sugar ChipsSamosa BitesShrimp Louis DinnerChicken Cordon BleuCheese SteaksCurry in a Hurry with Cilantro Lime RiceStromboliCreamed Chicken By
Guest Post: Mason Jar Salads | The Paleo MamaThe Paleo Mama I am so excited to have my friend, Dusti, share her knowledge of making these convienent, beautiful, and frugal salads! Dusti is always showing off her beautiful pictures of these salads and I’ve been intrigued by them. I shared one of her pictures on my Facebook page and everyone LOVED them. Lots of people had questions about them…how to store them, how to stack the salad, how long they last…so I asked Dusti if she could share her wisdom with us all! Mason Jar Salads Thank you to my friend Jackie from “The Paleo Mama” for allowing me to write a guest blog post for her! Like most families, we continue to battle the “convenience” monster that hits the house between 11-1pm for lunch and 5-6pm for dinner. Having a 4-year-old son and a 2-year-old daughter can make prepping for meal times challenging. One thing I continued to see over and over again on Pinterest was these meals in a jar – specifically “Mason Jar Salads“. So one week I decided to give it a go. That’s it! 1. 4. 5.
15 Foods to put in a Mason jar Mason jar recipes Storing your favorite foods in a Mason jar is a convenient way to have quick and easy meals on hand when you're in a time crunch. From a hearty breakfast to delicious desserts, here are 15 foods that you can put in your Mason jar. The Mason jar makes the preparation for this hearty breakfast minimal. Grab the jar, heat up the oats and go. Get the recipe >> Mason jar breakfast parfait Don't have much time to make breakfast? Find the recipe >> Fresh corn, edamame and radish salad Assemble this salad in your Mason jar for a quick grab-and-go lunch option. Learn how to make this fresh salad >> If you enjoy your Mexican dishes with lots of spice and kick, then you want to make sure you add this salad to your lunch menu. Get the recipe >> Chunky Mediterranean Mason jar salad Who doesn't enjoy a vibrant, colorful salad? Find the full recipe >> Caprese Mason jar salad This popular American salad is a quick option for a hearty, filling dinner. Learn how to make this salad >>
greek salad in a jar Beach Decor Blog, Coastal Blog, Coastal Decorating 623 Flares Twitter 0 Facebook 17 Google+ 0 Pin It Share 606 606 Buffer 0 623 Flares × So a while ago I wrote a post about Mason Jar salads, not thinking it was anything much really, you now Mason Jar Salads, salads in a jar, well they are pretty much all over the place, I can tell you that I am not the first blogger to blog a mason jar salad, I certainly won’t be the last….but it went a little bit crazy, that How to Make Mason Jar Salads post has been much loved so much so that it and this little blog has been print worthy via this month’s Australian Taste magazine…nice I was standing in Woolworths at the checkout and there’s my humble little salad in a jar staring right back at me from the magazine I picked up to browse in line. Here it is below… Again this is no super duper recipe that will change your life, there is no secret ingredient, you just chop, chop, chop, stuff it in, add some oil and vinegar and go… 2 peppers (capsicum) I like green and one other colour chopped salt and pepper
Salad in a Jar! Mason jars have become ubiquituous across the blogosphere, transporting everything from soup to cupcakes to oatmeal in practical, sensible style. This practicality means they won't fall out of favor any time soon, we predict. Look at the latest in-jar meal we're crazy about: Layered salads, beautiful and bright. When you're ready to eat, just dump all the ingredients into a big bowl, and toss them gently. Kathy even made a few of her vegan salads a few days ahead of time, to see if they would hold up through the week, or get soggy. Kathy has tons of vibrant, creative ideas for these jarred salads on her blog — go take a look! Salads in Jars from Healthy. More Meals in Jars • Oatmeal in Jars: Make a Week of Breakfast in 5 Minutes• Make Your Own Fruit-on-the-Bottom Yogurt Cups• Chili and Cornbread in Jars• A Barbecue Lunch in a Jar (Images: First two images: Kathy of Healthy.
The Best New Way to Bring Your Lunch I’ll admit it—my workday lunches can get pretty boring. I always think I’m going to finally make use of all those delicious recipes I’ve been pinning away, but then nighttime rolls around and I’m too busy watching really important things like The Bachelorette and Vampire Diaries. And then morning comes, and I’m running around like a headless chicken and I’m lucky if I remember my keys and bus pass on the way out the door, let alone find time to throw a tasty lunch together. But with a teensy amount of planning, delicious lunches can be just a few easy steps away. All it takes is a trip to the grocery store on a Sunday afternoon, a couple pantry staples, some mason jars, and an hour of your time. Why mason jars, you might ask? There really are only two rules to the mason jar salad: Start with the dressing or sauce, and end with the lettuce and herbs. The best part is you can make five salads at a time, and they’ll stay fresh for the whole week—just grab and go on your way out the door!
How to Make Mason Jar Meals: Part 1 Last week I placed the following photo on Big Red Kitchen’s FaceBook Page and received an overwhelming amount of requests on how I made these Mason Jar Meals. I aim to please… How many of you have poured over the web looking at this photo or that wishing it was your house, or pantry, or wardrobe, or garden? I do it all the time. It is so easy to click through Pinterest and say, “I wish I had that.” Then I realize, I can have all that by working within my means using what I already have, add a dash of contentment, a splash of money, and a pinch of time. I have always wanted my refrigerator to look like that photo up there because I was tired of… 1. With a little work I made it happen. I have done those once a month cooking marathons in the past and hated it. What was different this time? Ready to start? Purchase and lay out all the food you are going to prepare, and wash and dry your jars and lids. Next, start cooking. Tips on Cooking 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Hints on Filling the Jars 1. 2. 3. 4.
Ancient Sumerians In Ecuador: The Father Crespi Mystery… | Hidden Inca Tours In the Amazonian Ecuadorian region called Morona Santiago there is a very deep cavern, known in Spanish as Cueva de los Tayos (Cave of the Oilbirds). According to some researchers the true discoverer of the huge archaeological treasures of the Cueva de los Tayos was not the Hungarian Juan Moricz, but rather the Salesian priest Carlo Crespi (1891-1982), a native of Milan, Italy. Carlo Crespi, who arrived to the Amazonian Ecuador area of Cuenca in 1927, was able to win the trust of the natives Jibaro, and so they did deliver to him, over decades, hundreds of fabulous archaeological pieces dating back to an unknown time, many of them made of gold or golden, often masterfully carved with archaic hieroglyphs that, to date, no one has been able to decipher. From 1960 Crespi obtained from the Vatican the permission to open a museum in the city of Cuenca, where was located his Salesian mission. We have 2 major tours of Peru and Bolivia left in 2014; see details below: Full details Here
Prehistoric North Sea 'Atlantis' hit by 5m tsunami 30 April 2014Last updated at 20:28 ET By Paul Rincon Science editor, BBC News website A prehistoric "Atlantis" in the North Sea may have been abandoned after being hit by a 5m tsunami 8,200 years ago. The wave was generated by a catastrophic subsea landslide off the coast of Norway. Analysis suggests the tsunami over-ran Doggerland, a low-lying landmass that has since vanished beneath the waves. "It was abandoned by Mesolithic tribes about 8,000 years ago, which is when the Storegga slide happened," said Dr Jon Hill from Imperial College London. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote The impact... would have been massive - comparable to the Japanese tsunami of 2011” End QuoteDr Jon HillImperial College London The wave could have wiped out the last people to occupy this island. The research has been submitted to the journal Ocean Modelling and is being presented at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna this week. Continue reading the main story
Doggerland – Mapping a lost world So you think climate change is new? So you think the flooding of landmass by the oceans is a new? So you must have not heard of the times when people walked from London to Amsterdam. Doggerland is the name of a vast plain that joined Britain to Europe for nearly 12,000 years, until sea levels began rising dramatically after the last Ice Age.Taking its name from a prominent shipping hazard—Dogger Bank—this immense landbridge vanished beneath the North Sea around 6000 B.C. Like all landbridges, Doggerland seems to have been a pretty busy thoroughfare for ancient hunters and gatherers.But archaeologists hardly gave it a thought until 2002, when a small group of British researchers laid hands on seismic survey data collected by the petroleum industry in the North Sea. It is thought that the sea level rose no faster than about one or two meters per century, and that the land would have disappeared in a series of punctuated inundations. Read the Nature article on the mapping of Doggerland.