Avocado & Orange Composed Salad Recipe For National Salad Month…& How To Structure A Salad

[1] A composed salad of avocado and orange. The recipe is below (photo © Foods & Wines From Spain). [2] A composed salad recipe of vegetables and chickpeas. “Composed” means that the ingredients have been arranged individually in an attractive composition (photo © Anna Pelzer | Unsplash). [3] This composed salad is not as perfectly…
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Spicy Thai Paloma Cocktail Recipe For World Paloma Day

World Paloma Day is May 22nd. We recently featured a classic Paloma recipe for Cinco de Mayo, but you can take this popular and refreshing drink a step further—and give it a global spin. Like all classic cocktails, the Paloma invites you to play with the recipe and customize it—perhaps create your signature Paloma. Today’s…
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Consider American Black Walnuts On National Walnut Day

[1] Black walnuts: beautiful, but with an extremely hard shell that requires a special nutcracker (photos #1 and #2 © American Black Walnut Marketing Board). [2] The fleshy green outer covering is called the husk or shuck.(photos #2 and #3. [3] The best source for black walnuts online is Hammons (remaining photos © Hammons Products…
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Antipasto Pizza Recipe For National Pizza Party Day

[1] Top a pizza with your favorite antipasto ingredients (photo © DeLallo). [2] You can add antipasto meats to the vegetarian recipe below. In photo: sweet soppressata, hot soppressata, Genoa salami, prosciutto (photo © Williams Sonoma). [3] Provolone, a classic Italian cheese, often served cubed on an antipasto platter (photo © Castello Cheese). [4] We…
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Carrot Hummus Recipe For National Hummus Day

[1] Carrot hummus, served with crunchy crudités (photo © Wine Institute). [2] Whole cumim seeds. Toast them for great flavor (photo © Planet Spices | Etsy). [3] Pine nuts and garlic cloves. Did you know that pine nuts come from pine cones† (photo © C.J. Dayrit | Unsplash)? [4] Aleppo pepper, a crushed hot chile…
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