TIP OF THE DAY: Salad With Goat Cheese

Salad with a creamy, fresh goat cheese crottin, halved. Photo courtesy Vermont Creamery, one of America’s greatest producers of goat cheese. Read our review.   Whenever we see a goat cheese salad on a menu (chèvre is the French word), we order it. Typically served with mesclun or frisée, sometime with beets, sometime with toasted…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Serve Tortillas With The Salad Course

Adapt this dinner plate as a first course or snack. Photo courtesy Weldon Owen.   We saw this healthful lunch or dinner plate in the book, Healthy in a Hurry: Simple, Wholesome Recipes for Every Meal of the Day, by Karen Ansel and Charity Ferreira. We repurposed the idea as a snack or first course.…
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TIP OF THE DAY: 8 Ways To Use Arugula Beyond Green Salad

Arugula is known as rocket in the U.K., roquette in France and rucola in Italy. Native to the Mediterranean, it has been cultivated for thousands of years. A peppery green that delights lovers of spicy food, in the U.S. arugula is usually relegated to perking up a green salad. You can substitute it for lettuce…
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COOKING VIDEO: How To Clean Leeks

  Looking like enormous scallions, leeks are cousins to onions and garlic. The flavor and aroma is evocative of, but much milder than, onions. Leeks are served raw, braised, fried and sautéed, alone or as part of a more complex recipe. Typically, recipes call for only the white base and very light green portion of…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Fried Leeks Garnish

Fried leeks are the elegant relative of fried onion rings. Chefs at fine restaurants use them to top steaks and fish for visually arresting height and palate-pleasing crunch. The deep fried leek strips are equally at home atop a burger or eggs: omelet, poached or scrambled. In the recipe in the photo, executive chef/owner Christopher…
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