Summer Salad with Vinaigrette @TinaKashian1 #Giveaway

Hello from TINA KASHIAN! My garden is producing Jersey tomatoes and cucumbers as well as many other vegetables and herbs. I love summer salads using these fresh ingredients and combining them with others, even canned goods. I’m sharing a summer salad using my garden tomatoes and cucumbers. It’s tossed with a healthy vinaigrette. It is easy to prepare and full of flavor. Enjoy!

Here's a picture of my Jersey tomatoes from this morning’s pick! I don’t use all of these in my recipe, but two beefsteaks. See below:

 

Ingredients:

½ cup canned kidney beans, drained and rinsed

½ cup canned chickpeas, drained and rinsed

2 large beefsteak tomatoes, diced

2 large, seeded cucumbers, chopped

2 tablespoons red wine vinegar

¼ cup extra virgin olive oil

1 tablespoon salt or to taste

½ teaspoon black pepper

 

Directions:

Drain a can of kidney beans, rinse, and add a ½ cup to a large bowl. Drain a can of chickpeas, rinse, and add ½ cup to the bowl. Peel and chop the cucumbers and dice the tomatoes. Add to the bowl.

In a separate bowl, whisk together the olive oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper. Add to the bowl and mix thoroughly. Refrigerate for an hour, then serve. Enjoy!

 

 

What is your favorite summer salad? Readers please share for a chance to win a signed, print copy of "Mistletoe, Moussaka and Murder" (U.S. Only for print). Please leave an email address to be eligible to win the prize. Good luck! 

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 MISTLETOE, MOUSSAKA AND MURDER

Not even her impending nuptials can keep Lucy Berberian, manager of her family-owned Kebab Kitchen, from the Jersey Shore’s annual Polar Bear Plunge. But her dive into the icy ocean is especially chilling when she finds a fellow swimmer doing the dead man’s float—for real . . .

 

Who would kill a man in cold blood during Ocean Crest, New Jersey’s most popular winter event? When Lucy learns the victim is Deacon Spooner, the reception hall owner who turned up his nose—and his price—at her wedding plans, she can’t help wondering who wouldn’t kill the pompous caterer . . .

 

Perhaps the culprit is the wedding cake baker whose career Deacon nearly destroyed? Or the angry bride whose reception he ruined? With her maid of honor, Katie, busily planning Lucy’s wedding without her, Lucy will have to get to the bottom of this cold-hearted business in time for Kebab Kitchen’s mouthwatering Christmas celebration—and before her hometown’s holiday spirit washes out to sea . . .

 

Recipes included!

 

 

Tina Kashian writes the Kebab Kitchen Mediterranean mystery series, and her first book, Hummus and Homicide, spent six weeks on the B&N bestseller list. Tina is an attorney and a mechanical engineer whose love of reading for pleasure helped her get through years of academia. Tina spent her childhood summers at the Jersey shore building sandcastles, boogie boarding, and riding the boardwalk Ferris wheel. She also grew up in the restaurant business, as her Armenian parents owned a restaurant for thirty years. Tina still lives in New Jersey with her supportive husband and two daughters.

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