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: Asian Cobb Salad

This delicious salad is dramatically plated on an oval platter, but we had to cut the photo in half. Photo courtesy Yotel New York.   We love East-West fusion food, and there’s no better source for it than East & West at Club Lounge in the Yotel New York. RECIPE: ASIAN COBB SALAD Ingredients For…
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FOOD FUN: Watermelon Cucumbers

Mini watermelon cucumbers: fun food. Photo courtesy Melissas.com.   Cucumbers and watermelons are first cousins. Both are from the binomial order Cucurbitales and family Cucurbitaceae, differing only at the genus level: Cucumis for cucumber (the common cucumber genus/species is C. sativus) and Citrullus for watermelon (C. lanatus). That’s why you can eat the white portion…
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