TIP OF THE DAY: Summer Salad With Berries & Mandarins

A salad so fruity, you could have it for dessert (photo © Peach Valley Cafe.   Doesn’t this salad from Florida-based Peach Valley Café burst with summer? Blueberries, mandarin segments, strawberries, frisée and baby greens are garnished with shaved Parmesan cheese, toasted almonds and homemade peach ginger dressing.     You can add or substitute…
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RECIPE: Blue Salad ~ Blue Cheese, Blueberries

Shoo the blues: a summer salad with blueberries and blue cheese. Photo courtesy Driscoll’s.   You’ll shoo the blues away with this “blue salad”: blue cheese, fresh blueberries and homemade blueberry vinaigrette. The recipe is from Driscoll’s Berries. The homemade blueberry vinegar will stay fresh for six months and can be gifted to your favorite…
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RECIPE: Smoked Salmon Potato Salad

Summer means potato salad, and you can never have too many good potato salad recipes. This one, from Tiffany Ludwig of Zabar’s, uses the stores famous smoked salmon to excellent effect. “With capers, dill and smoked salmon,” says Tiffany, “this simple summer dish transforms brunch or lunch into a spectacular meal.” Tiffany urges that the…
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RECIPE: Peanut Butter Brownie Ice Cream Sandwiches

This recipe for peanut butter lovers was contributed by Isabelle Boucher of Crumblog and posted to the recipe section of ILovePeanutButter.com, the website of Peanut Butter & Co. She used Peanut Butter & Co.’s Dark Chocolate Dreams peanut butter to make the ice cream, and sandwiched it between two layers of brownie. You can also…
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