RECIPE: Summer Panzanella Salad

[1] Add your favorite ingredients to a summer panzanella. Here’s a recipe from The Wanderlust Kitchen (photo © The Wanderlust Kitchen). [2] Panzanella is a way to turn lush summer tomatoes into a bread-and-tomato salad (photo © Baldor Specialty Foods).   Panzanella, a traditional Tuscan salad of bread and tomatoes, is delicious way to use…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Panzanella (Bread Salad) & A Recipe For Autumn Panzanella

[2] This autumn panzanella (bread salad) adds squash and lentils to the green (photo courtesy Good Eggs). [2] Arugula: a delightfully bitter green (photo courtesy Park Seed Company).   Bread salad (panzanella), like French toast and croutons, is one of those delicious recipes invented by necessity: Poor people needed to get another meal from bread…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make A Summer Panzanella (Bread Salad)

Bread salad, like French toast and croutons, is one of those delicious foods invented by necessity: Poor people needed to get another meal from leftover bread that had gone stale. Large croutons are a main ingredient of the salad, rather than the small American-style croutons used as garnish. Panzanella, the Italian word for bread salad,…
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RECIPE: Bread Salad #2 (Panzanella)

Bread salad: Try it, you’ll love it. Photo courtesy Pillsbury.   Several weeks ago we published a recipe for panzanella, Tuscan bread salad. While perusing other recipes, we discovered this one on Pillsbury.com, submitted by Carrian Cheney of the blog, Oh Sweet Basil. It’s what to do when you have leftover French or Italian bread,…
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RECIPE: Panzanella & Fruit Salad

Fruit salad with bread (panzanella salad). Photo © Hannah Kaminsky | Bittersweet Blog.   Our colleague Hannah Kaminsky spent the summer in California, enjoying the wealth of produce that sunny state provides. “As a little ode to my Californian summer, it was only fitting to gather up a small sampling of what I had on…
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