Category: Vegetables-Salads-Herbs

TIP OF THE DAY: The New Layered Salad Bowls

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What’s hot in fast-casual restaurant dining? Layered salad bowls! The bowls have a bed of salad greens, with layers of toppings such as beans, cheese, corn, dips (guacamole, hummus, salsa), grains, legumes, noodles, proteins, sour cream, tomatoes and more. Each layer of ingredients adds more flavor and texture. According Katie Ayoub’s article in Flavor &…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Goat Cheese, Beets & Nuts

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One of our favorite salads is appealing year-round: for its green, red and white palette during holiday season, and for color, flavor and texture anytime. With a delicious shipment from Love Beets, we’ve been enjoying it every day. It’s a mesclun salad with beets, goat cheese and nuts. You can turn it into a lunch…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Spiced Roasted Carrots With Sumac

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This recipe from the Williams-Sonoma Test Kitchen was so breathtaking, we traipsed through three different farmers markets to hunt down the beautiful heirloom carrots (and finally found them at Trader Joe’s). The recipe gave us an excuse to purchase sumac, a slightly tart and fruity spice popular in North African and Middle Eastern cooking. We’d…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Types Of Radishes & Ways To Use Radishes

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Low in calories, high in crunch, often with a hot pepper spiciness, radishes (Raphanus sativus) can be a fun food. They’re nutritious*, too. If you’re old enough, you may remember the time when radish “roses” were almost as common a plate garnish a sprig of parsley. You sliced the rose in a certain way (or…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Fried Cheese For The Cheese Course

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Sophisticated diners in the U.S.—and many people in Europe—have long finished dinner with a cheese course and small salad, instead of a sweet dessert. How about a twist: fried cheese with salad on top—or underneath? There are many fried cheese recipes; today’s is a Sicilian specialty. Caciocavallo, which means “cheese on horseback,” is a cheese…
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