Day: May 6, 2011

RECIPE: Colorful Spinach & Grapefruit Salad

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A terrific combination of flavors. Photocourtesy Melissas.com.   Before citrus gives way to summer fruits, here’s a quick, colorful spring salad from Andrew Faulkner for Melissas.com, purveyor of exotic and hard-to-find fruits and vegetables. Sweet-tart grapefruit, tasty fennel, and tangy olive flavors come together with super healthy spinach leaves and grapefruit segments.   RECIPE: SPINACH…
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COOKING VIDEO: Wild Ramps, A Great Spring Vegetable

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  May is the month for delicious ramps. Their season is fleeting: late April to early June. They are worth seeking out. Ramps (Allium tricoccum) are wild leeks—also known as spring onion, ramson and wild garlic. In French, they are called ail sauvage, wild garlic, and ail des bois, garlic of the woods, because of…
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CINCO DE MAYO: How We Celebrated ~ Part I ~ Tequila Herradura

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Some days, we can understand why so many people think that they want to work at THE NIBBLE. While our friends were getting ready for Cinco de Mayo parties—a.k.a. “how much tequila can you drink in one evening, in a small New York City apartment or cramped Mexican restaurant?”—we were enjoying the lovely view from…
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GOURMET GIFT: Fresh-Picked Avocados & Avocado Recipes

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A fresh-picked, healthy gift.   Last month we wrote about California Avocados Direct, a business started by a fourth-generation California farm family. The plump Hass avocados are fresh-picked to order and shipped that day, along with a note from the farmer about when they’ll be at peak ripeness (in about 10 days, so there’s plenty…
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