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Sometimes you want a salad but you don’t want lettuce. Know what I’m sayin? You don’t? Come on, don’t tell me that sometimes you wish you could have that cold, fresh, crispy, crunchy satisfaction you get from a salad without all the bulk of the lettuce base. If the salad is meant as a starter,…
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Avocado goes great with citrus and anyone who’s eaten at a sushi restaurant knows that avocado and edamame work well together. Just a hunch, but that means grapefruit and edamame could work together with avocado doing the back end work of bringing them together. I just told you the three main ingredients for this salad.…
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Iceberg lettuce may be the most boring of them all, but cut a head of it in quarters and top it with tomatoes, crisp bacon, and homemade blue cheese dressing and it turns into something special. I like to add thinly sliced radishes to mine after trying it on my favorite wedge at Flex Mussels.…
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Great salad. That’s what I’ve got to say about this recipe. And with the purple of the radicchio and bright green of the avocado, it’s a good lookin dish as well. I’d never had red quinoa before. Guess what. It’s a lot like regular quinoa, just a little nuttier. And I’m a little nuttier than…
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Made Weekly is a new favorite tumblr where blogger Rachel picks one ingredient per week and incorporates it into a new recipe each day. Last week’s secret ingredient was pea shoots and I was determined to make one of the dishes. Did you know pea shoots can be used as more than just a garnish…
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Problem: I completely forgot to prepare something for book club last night. Book club starts at 7:30 (so I have til 7:45, obviously), which means I had to leave work by 6, stop by the grocery store, and get the cooking finished by 7:35 in order to get there at an appropriate time. If I…
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While I was in Curacao, one of my favorite things to eat was a heart of palm salad that they served at just about every meal. It was a very simple salad so I recently made a version of it here in the US. I tossed chunks of heart of palm with celery that I…
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When you want a big salad for a meal but are sick of the good old cobb, I highly recommend turning to taco salad. It’s healthier than eating actual tacos and is full of protein. I like using crisp lettuce for this, like romaine hearts. Instead of using ground beef, I decided to go with…
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So the plan was for this salad to have fresh corn in it but it was out of season so I increased the amount of haricots verts and made it anyway. With the help of a healthy portion of dill, this salad has tons of flavor with few ingredients. While you’re boiling haricots verts (those…
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I love that Trader Joe’s sells Brussels sprouts in shredded/slaw form. They’re great to sauté with vegetables but this time I decided to use them for the base of a simple salad. When it comes to nuts in salad, I know the walnut is usually everybody’s first pick. I, however, prefer pine nuts or sunflower…
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Peaches to Apples 