Shredded Salad Recipe & Different Ways To Shred Vegetables

[1] Shredded vegetable salad as a pretty first course (photo © Contra Restaurant | NYC). [2] A shredded salad of red cabbage, carrot, and mint. Here’s the recipe (photo © Recipe Tin Eats). [3] Shredding vegetables on a mandoline (photo © Quinciple | Facebook). [4] Chopped salad (photo © California Olive Ranch | Facebook). [5]…
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Tea Ice Pops Recipes For National Iced Tea Month

You can make turn any kind of tea into an ice pop, from a diet pop made with noncaloric sweetener to an elaborate fruit-filled, creamy pop. Start with your choice of plain tea, Earl Grey, Constant Comment, rooibos, whatever. Then pick a sweetener. You can use agave syrup, honey, flavored simple syrup (lavender, lemon, mint,…
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Just Ice Tea: A Favorite Bottled Tea Returns

[1] Original Green Tea, which along with Original Black Tea are the two unsweetenened, zero-calorie teas in the line (all photos © Eat The Change). [2] Berry Hibiscus, one of the two herbal (caffeine-free) teas in the line. [3] Our personal favorite, Half Tea & Half Lemonade (also known as the Arnold Palmer). [4] A…
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The Do Good Dog: A Friendlier Hot Dog

The Fourth of July is the biggest hot dog-eating day of the year. According to the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council, an estimated 150 million hot dogs are consumed on Independence Day—enough hot dogs to stretch across the country and back. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, “peak hot dog season,” Americans will gobble…
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FOOD FUN: Potato Chip Salad Recipe & History Of Salt & Vinegar Chips

[1] Wylie Dufresne’s potato chip salad (photo © Lanna Apisukh for The New York Times). [2] We used salt and vinegar potato chips from Kettle Brand (photo © Kettle Brand).   Wylie Dufresne’s potato chip salad at Stretch Pizza in New York City may not seem so revolutionary. It’s a green salad topped with custom-made…
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