Thursday, November 21, 2013

Foods Beginning with "D"

Time for making a Delicious D Lunch. Here are the foods I have discovered that begin with the letter D. Now YOU can create a lunch for your kids OR for yourself!

Breads or Grains:
Dirty rice (Cajun rice, chicken, onions & peppers)
Ditalini pasta (little pasta tubes used in minestrone, etc)

Dairy:
Danablu cheese (sharp, blue-veined cheese from Denmark)
Devonshire cream (clotted cream from England)
Dip
Dolcelatte (blue-veined, soft cheese - like a sweet Gorgonzola)
Double Gloucester cheese (English cheddar-style cheese from Gloucester region)
Dressing

Desserts:
Danish
Dark chocolate
Devils food cake
Donut
Dulce de leche (Hispanic "candy of milk")

Fruits:
Damson plum (small, sweet plum)
Dates
Dragonfruit (bright pink skin, white flesh with black speckles)
Durian (Asian fruit with a thick, prickly husk and a stinky custardy inside)

Meats and Proteins:
Deviled egg
Duck
Dungeness crab

Vegetables:
Daikon radish
Dandelion greens salad
Dill pickles

Combinations:
Dagwood sandwich (tall, many-layered sandwich of bread, meats, cheeses)
Dal (thick Indian lentil stew)
Demi-glace sauce
Denver omelet (omelet with ham, onions, peppers & cheese)
Dolmas (Mediterranean dish consisting of meat & rice wrapped in grape or cabbage leaves)
Dumplings (Seriously, get them at Trader Joe's. Yum!)

Other ingredients to possibly incorporate:
Demi glace - rich, brown sauce that is the base for other sauces
Dijon mustard
Dill

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