Category: Vegetables-Salads-Herbs

RECPE: Marinated Grilled Eggplant, Mushrooms & Zucchini

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When the grill is fired up, try this easy. Grilled Marinated Eggplant, Zucchini, and Portobello Mushrooms from Patsy’s Italian Restaurant in New York City. The restaurant is famous as Frank Sinatra’s favorite restaurant, and is still popular with his family. RECIPE: MARINATED GRILLED EGGPLANT, MUSHROOMS & ZUCCHINI Ingredients For 4 Servings 1 medium eggplant, about…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Composed Salad

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A composed salad (salade composée in French) is not tossed. Rather, the dish is brought to the table with the ingredients arranged separately (and artistically) on individual serving plates, with a ramekin of dressing. The diner can take a forkful of whatever ingredients he or she wishes. In this recipe from Cookie and Kate for…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Panzanella, Summer Bread Salad

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Panzanella, Tuscan bread salad. Photo by Jerry Keith | Wikimedia.   Bread salad, like French toast and croutons, is one of those delicious recipes invented by necessity: Poor people needed to get another meal from leftover bread that had gone stale. Panzanella is a Tuscan-style bread salad made with a loaf of day-old (or older)…
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RECIPE: French Green Beans Salad With Goat Cheese & Almonds

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Green beans salad with goat cheese and almonds. Photo courtesy Pom Wonderful.   We love crunchy, al dente green beans as a side dish or a salad course. This recipe, from Pom Wonderful, adds goat cheese and almonds that create a most appealing flavor profile. The green beans are stir-fried, but you can steam them…
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RECIPE: Broccoli & Cauliflower Salad with Crisp Prosciutto & Mustard Dressing

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Looking for something crisp and cruciferous? The cruciferous vegetables family—arugula, bok choy, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, collard greens, horseradish, kale, kohlrabi, mizuna, mustard greens, radish, rapini (broccoli rabe), rutabaga, tatsoi, turnip and wasabi—contains powerful anti-carcinogen antioxidants, and powerfully good flavor. This recipe, from Pom Wonderful, combines two of the group, broccoli and cauliflower, into…
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