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Posts tagged with ‘salads’

  • Spinach Salad with Cumin Vinaigrette Dressing

    Spinach Salad with Cumin Vinaigrette Dressing One of our many cooking missions is to help folks to ditch their bottled salad dressings. You can just as easily make delicious vinaigrettes and dressings with a few pantry essentials. It’s healthier, cheaper, and most importantly, a lot more fun to get out your whisk and exercise some wrist strength. Today’s recipe post [...]
    May 19, 2013
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  • Kale Salad with Apples, Fennel, and Candied Pecans | My Favorite Thanksgiving Sides, Part II

    When people plan their Thanksgiving menu, salad often doesn’t make the cut. It’s understandable. I mean when you have 3 types of sweet potato dishes, a deep-fried turkey, and 6 variety of pies, where can you even find room for salad on the table? Salad just seems so everyday and unsubstantial compared to Thanksgiving’s heavy hitters. Why waste a coveted [...]
    November 9, 2012
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  • Grilled Miso-Soy Tofu with Edamame and Cucumber Green Salad | Ingredient Spotlight

    The temperatures have dropped dramatically in the Bay Area over the last few weeks, and by dramatic, I mean we’ve gone from the toasty 80′s of summer to the cold 60′s of autumn. Clearly, the gritty east coaster in me has long disappeared and been replaced by a soft Californian. We may get a few more uses out of the [...]
    October 13, 2012
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  • Peach and Heirloom Tomato Panzanella Salad | Uses for Stale Bread

    While most folks spend their summer months daydreaming about vacation and the beach, I spend mine daydreaming about this: Biting into the perfect peach, juices oozing down my chin Picking the perfect tomato that needs little more than a dash of salt and a splash of balsamic Tossing olive oil on stale bread and giving it new life Luckily, since [...]
    July 12, 2012
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  • The Black Bean + Corn + Farro Salad | 3 Ingredients / 3 Ways

    Part of our “3 Ingredients / 3 Ways” Series, featuring: BLACK BEANS + CORN + FARRO Can you smell the taste of summer yet? I sure can. Every year the heat of summer ushers in a season of cookouts, picnics, and way too many (but yet not enough) ice cream trips. As the season arrives, I am always looking for [...]
    June 13, 2012
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  • Hearty Kale, Three Different Ways | Ingredient Spotlight

    Even in California, winter has arrived. Most days I hibernate in my home office, covered in a blanket with a space heater at my feet, craving hearty winter foods. By the time I “leave” work and head [20 whole feet] to the kitchen to start dinner, I often happily turn to kale. There are few greens that are as versatile [...]
    January 19, 2012
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