You know what’s not a good idea? Shopping for jeans after an ‘eat weekend’.
Don’t act like you don’t know what an ‘eat weekend’ is. Don’t act like you haven’t ever eaten nothing but spaghetti and meat balls, doughnuts, onion rings, and mango margaritas for an entire weekend. Surely I’m not the only one.
Maybe I am the only dummy who would go shopping for jeans after such a gluttonous two days.
Can I tell you the worst part? The sales dude. Yea… DUDE. He insisted on seeing every pair of jeans I tried on. Um… no way, dude. No way.
Can I tell you the second worst part? I had to have the sales dude go back to the floor to get me a larger size in all the jeans I had selected. Larger. Yea… that wasn’t embarrassing at all.
So I made a salad.
Whatever. This has nothing to do with the jeans incident or ‘eat weekend’… maybe I just like salad more than I like onion rings.
I love to pair radishes with green onions. Mostly I just love the way they look together.
This edamame salad also has chopped parsley, ripe avocado, a garlic and ginger dressing, and sesame seeds.
This salad is so fresh (as in cool, duh), and so simple. I thawed and blanched a bag of shelled edamade beans. Even cooked, soybeans have a bit of crunch. Combine that crunch with spicy radishes and creamy avocado. Come on… you know this is the business.
The dressing is a touch spicy. Thank you garlic. Thank you ginger.
Look how healthy and wholesome this is.
What ‘eat weekend’!? That couldn’t have been me.
Avocado and Edamame Salad
serves 4 large or 6 small servings
1 16-ounce bag frozen shelled edamame, thawed
1 clove garlic, minced
1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
2 teaspoons honey
scant 1/4 cup seasoned rice wine vinegar
3 tablespoons olive oil
juice of 1 lime
pinch of salt and fresh cracked pepper
1/2 cup sliced green onion
3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
5 to 8 radishes, sliced
1 ripe avocado, sliced
sesame seeds
Bring about 4 cups of water to boil in a medium saucepan. Add edamame and boil for just a few minutes, until cooked through but still with a slight bite to them. Drain and allow to cool.
In the meantime, make the dressing.
In a small bowl, whisk together rice wine vinegar, oil, garlic, ginger, lime, honey and salt and pepper. Whisk together until completely incorporated. Set aside.
In a medium bowl, combine cooled edamame, green onion, parsley, radishes, and a sprinkling of sesame seeds. Toss together. Add dressing to desired amount. It’s that easy!
Salad lasts up to 4 days in the fridge, but be warned, the radishes will start the loose their red color… just so you know.
Meg @ Sweet Twist
Wow. This sounds wonderful. I love avocado and edamame! I will be making this very soon.
Nicole @ The Dirty Oven
I am so glad you enjoyed your weekend and the retreat was a hit. I truly enjoyed looking at all the pictures posted and reading the Tweets. Even met some new online blogger friends that way.
Enjoy the salads and your jeans. I am sure you look great.
Heather (Heather's Dish)
girl, you are NOT the only one…and i would have blown off the sales dude to :)
Lauren at Keep It Sweet
Trying on jeans is hard enough after a regular eating day, I give you a lot of credit for that!
This salad looks delicious.
Vickie
gorgeous colourful salad, looks delicious
Hannah
This looks AWESOME. I wish I could find avocados here or I would be all over this.
Jillian
This looks like it will be my dinner tonight. I love me some avocado!…and every weekend for me feels like an eating weekend full of booze, french fries, and pancakes…not necessarily in that order.
Katrina
This sounds lovely! The radishes really make it pretty :)
Lucia
This sales dude looks super annoying! Come on, he should know that every nice girl needs to try jeans on in a private, calm place ;-)
leaf (the indolent cook)
I totally have junk food days. And then I cleanse myself with gorgeous fresh salads similar to this one. It’s all good!
Emma
Lovely, fresh looking salad.
And yes, I’ve had those kinds of weekends. And I hate trying on jeans, no matter what size I am!
Carly June
WANT. NOW.
Unfortunately I’m living in Ireland at the moment where the avocados are nothing like the ones back home in California and where I’m pretty sure if I asked my local grocer to help me find edamame, I’d be looked at like I suddenly sprouted a second head.
Alas. I shall persevere.
Jennifer L.
I love how you never fail to provide entertainment for us central-time zone people up in the middle of the night writing papers… just saying.
And that looks amazing. Mmmm… you had me at “edamame and avocado.”
Kathryn
I definitely had a weekend like that – now all I want is salad and as many vegetables as I can find. This has got such a great colour and it looks so appetising. Thanks Joy!
Julia
Yum! this looks so great. I don’t think I’ve ever actually eaten radishes before, I’m going to pick some up tomorrow and try this!