Category: Recipes

Homemade Greek Salad Recipe

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Everyone we lunch with seems to order a Greek salad or a Cobb salad. And they admit that they never make it at home! So today’s tip is: Enjoy a Greek salad at home, regularly. When you make your own, you can add as much feta, olives, pepperoncini, and other favorite ingredients as you like.…
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RECIPE: Bacon Potato Pancakes With Corn Salsa

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To some people, a baked potato with sour cream, grated cheese, green onions or chives and bacon is heaven. Here, heaven has a Southwestern twist. The baked potato becomes a potato pancake; crumbled bacon, green onion and Gruyère cheese go into the pancake; and the sour cream becomes avocado cream. The pancakes are topped with…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Soup With Salad Garnish

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Here’s a new approach to “soup and salad”: a chilled soup with a salad garnish. We were inspired by this concept from Chef Scott Conant of Scarpetta restaurants in Beverly Hills, Las Vegas, Miami and New York City. The idea is to create a substantial garnish that contributes eye appeal and compatible flavors to the…
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RECIPE: Thai Cucumber Salad

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Following on the heels of cucumber water, here’s an easy recipe for a delicious cucumber salad, Thai-style. Serve this crunchy, low-calorie side with just about anything. While European cucumber salads tend to use cider vinegar and lots of fresh dill, the Thai twist uses rice vinegar and some heat: Thai chiles if you like things…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Cucumber Water

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Toss cucumber slices into a glass or a pitcher of water. Photo by Elvira Kalviste | THE NIBBLE.   When life gives you cucumbers, you can make cucumber soup, cucumber salad, add cukes to green salads and grain salads and make pickled cucumbers (that’s “pickles” to most of us, although any fruit or vegetable can…
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