Category: Salads
Quick & Delicious Pan Fried Falafel
Yes, you can make falafel on a weeknight! These lightened-up pan fried falafel are easy to prepare...
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Kale Tabbouleh with Chorizo & Feta
This hearty kale tabbouleh features chorizo and feta for a stunning twist on a classic salad! This...
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Quick Green Salad from Scratch: A Taste of France
With this technique for making a quick green salad, I guarantee you and your family will start...
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Grilled Eggplant Salad with Fennel, Feta & Mint
A few years ago we had friends over for dinner, and I assembled an ad hoc platter of grilled eggplant topped with a zippy shaved fennel salad, crumbled feta and a spatter of fresh mint. It was simple but unique, outshining the burgers and corn on our plates. I now make this grilled eggplant salad with fennel and feta several times a summer as a welcome departure from—or complement to—the predictable tomato salads and grilled vegetables that dress our table.…
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Rice Noodle Salad (Thai Style)
This cold rice noodle salad with crunchy cucumbers, summer squash, herbs, peanuts and chiles is refreshing and light—perfect for sultry summer evenings.
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Taco Salad (All Grown Up)
With crunchy romaine lettuce, spiced beef (or turkey), radishes, tomatoes, grated cheddar, crushed tortilla chips and a creamy chipotle dressing, this taco salad is a modern, fresh version of a childhood classic.
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Gochujang Grilled Pork Tenderloin with Butter Lettuce, Snap Peas & Peanuts (GF)
I could call this a salad, but it’s so much more. Slices of caramelized pork tenderloin, still warm off the grill, get nestled into a cool and crunchy mix of butter lettuce, sugar snap peas, radishes, herbs and peanuts then drizzled with a rich, rust-hued dressing. The dressing does double duty as the marinade for the meat and is spicy, sweet, salty and ever so addicting.…
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Squash, Apple & Goat Cheese Salad
My dear friends, it has been way too long. It’s late, and I’m sitting here with a cup of tea (I’m not going to lie—I just finished a gigantic glass of wine). I feel so glad to be back. I’ve been consumed with a few projects, which I promise to share with you very, very soon (as a hint, one starts with “b” and ends with “k”!!), but in the meantime, did you get the memo that Thanksgiving is next week?…
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Sweet and Smoky Corn Salad with Arugula, Radishes & Cotija
This sweet corn salad with arugula, radishes and cotija gets tossed with a creamy lime and smoked paprika dressing.This sweet and smoky corn salad with arugula, radishes, cotija cheese and a creamy lime dressing is like a lightened-up version of Mexican street corn!
Corn. Corn. Corn. Corn. It’s August, and that means CORN!…
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Potato and Snow Pea Salad with Toasted Hazelnuts
How can it be July? Summer always goes by way too fast, but one of the best things about having a garden is that it helps me to savor every stage of this fleeting season. First we had an abundance of arugula, spinach, lettuce, kale and chard. Now the greens have given way to a wild tangle of snow peas, with squash, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers and tomatoes slowly starting to show their pretty little cheeks. …
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