Welcome to another fabulous event hosted by Culinary Adventures with Camilla. I have been involved in a number of events that Camilla has organized, including #HotSummerEats, #TripleSBites, and #10DaysofTailgate. I jumped at the chance to be a part of #FreshTastyValentines. Camilla is the most organized and gets the most generous sponsors. Just take a look at the generous businesses that have helped with this event:
These are all extremely excellent products and companies! Thank you, thank you, thank you to all the sponsors.
On opening day of #FreshTastyValentines, I wanted to highlight Gourmet Garden. They are always uber generous with their products. See:
See all the great products, PLUS these come in great insulated, reusable totes.
In the dead of winter, these are my go-to products for herbs. And, truth be told, I use a lot of these products during the summer too, especially for herbs that I don’t grow like lemongrass. I absolutely adore their ginger paste. It has saved my knuckles countless scrapes from not having to grate ginger. 🙂
For my first recipe for #FreshTastyValentines, I present a lovely pink-hued vinaigrette utilizing Gourmet Garden Ginger Paste.
Pomegranate-Ginger Vinaigrette
1 garlic clove, minced
1 shallot, minced
1/3 c. pomegranate juice
2 T. white balsamic vinegar
1/2 T. Gourmet Garden Ginger Paste
1/2 c. grape seed oil
Himalayan sea salt, to tasteIn a small bowl, whisk together garlic, shallot, juice, vinegar and Gourmet Garden Ginger Paste. Slowly whisk in grape seed oil.
Taste and season with salt.
Serve on a green salad or drizzle on freshly steamed veggies.
Pomegranate-Ginger Vinaigrette
I used this dressing on a chopped kale salad with sliced mangoes, blood oranges, pomegranate arils, and a few sunflower seeds.
Chopped kale salad with mangoes, blood oranges, pomegranate arils, and sunflower seeds.
Please check out Gourmet Garden on twitter and instagram.
(Disclaimer: I did receive complimentary products from Gourmet Garden for participating in #FreshTastyValentines. I have received no additional compensation for this post and the opinions expressed here are solely my own. My recipe shared in the review of this product was not sponsored.)
Make sure you enter to win one of these fantastic prizes. Maybe you will win all the Gourmet Garden products, including the two insulated totes. (One is great for lunches and the other is great for wine!)
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This week I will utilize products from Not Ketchup, T. Lish, Woodbridge, Bob’s Redmill, Mann’s produce and Kitchen IQ. Stay tuned for Tangerine-Hatch Chile Sweet Potato Fries with Yogurt Sauce, Orange-Hemp Cookies, Lemongrass Rissotto with Sugarsnap Peas and Shitakes, and Asian-Sesame Turkey Meatloaf. I will also highlight great products from Uncommon Goods (love, love, love this catalog), Casabella, and Envy. Stay tuned.
Fresh seasonal salads are always good! That ginger paste sounds really interesting.
what a fabulous salad dressing!
Yum and more yum!
I love making my wife her favorite dessert on Valentine’s Day…Boston Cream Pie!
What a lovely dressing – so many ways you could use that!
I LOVE that pomegranate vinaigrette
I love those Gourmet Garden tubes too! So convenient. Your dressing sounds wonderful 🙂
That sounds like a delicious dressing!
Gourmet Garden makes life so much easier! Great way to feature one of their products!
Delicious looking dressing!
Why have I never put ginger into my salad dressing??? This sounds amazing!!
WOW. That’s beautiful…and tasty, I’m sure. I can’t wait to try this. Thanks for joining us in #FreshTastyValentines.
I love the zing ginger gives to everything is put in! This dressing sounds fantastic!
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That looks beautiful! What’s delicious dressing!
Mmm that’s a delicious sounding vinaigrette.
I’m always trying to find new way so to enjoy that lovely ginger paste, love this recipe!!!
What a unique dressing! I love it.
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Although we don’t have the winter seasons here, I often buy Gourmet Garden pastes (because I am basically lazy) and love using the ginger and garlic pastes when I don’t feel like prepping. 😉 That vinaigrette looks delicious–as does the salad you used it on.
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