Category: Recipes

TIP OF THE DAY: Shaved Salad

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Get out your mandoline and make a shaved salad. Thinly-shaved foods not only have visual elegance, but enable a better melding of flavors on the fork. Serve them as a first course, a salad course after the main course, or a light lunch (for example, plated with cold chicken, roast, seafood). Photo #1, from Rolf…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Beyond Gazpacho Light Summer Soups

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[1] Chilled strawberry coconut soup from Carlsbad Cravings. [2] Spicy chilled carrot soup with ginger and turmeric from Gourmande In The Kitchen.   Cool off with chilled soup versions of a few classics, like borscht, cold cucumber soup (with yogurt and dill) and gazpacho are the classic soups of summer, and we love them all.…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Summer Toast Toppings

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[1] Your toast should dress for summer, too. Here, fruit, honey and mascarpone cheese in a recipe from Wry Toast Eats. [2] Switch to savory with this pretty avocado toast from Bluestone Lane. a café in Hoboken, New Jersey.   We love toast. We could eat it three times a day, with different toppings. Today’s…
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